So apologies if I indeed have any regular followers, there has been a bit of a blog hiatus. I'm hopefully back for the time being and will do my best to ensure smaller gaps in the future....
So what have I been up to?
Well my parents are visiting at the moment as it was my Mum's 61st Birthday on the 19th February and my Dad's 70th on the 9th so I decided to buy them some tickets to see Fairport Convention at Leeds City Varieties - for a band that have been going for 46 years they certainly do well on a 3 month tour in terms of energy and engagement with their audience. We went straight to the gig from home and it was a very very cold Leeds night - fortunately we didn't have far to walk or long to queue.
The support act for the gig was a chap called Fake Thackray who was entertaining, but a little blue and was signing the songs of a fairly misogynistic individual from the past. It was done in good humour and more in appreciation for the artist rather than the sentiment, so I was able to tolerate it, though was keen for Fairport to start!
When I was 7 my parents first took us to to Fairport's annual festival reunion in Cropredy which was great fun for us at the time because it involved camping, shopping in hippy shops and festival food. I did also grow to love the music - including becoming somewhat partial to a fiddle and other folk music traits.
The gig was good, the City Varieties looks awesome post makeover, but I probably only knew about 4 songs during the gig. They did play my favourite which I can highly recommend a listen of, even if you don't like folk.
The support act for the gig was a chap called Fake Thackray who was entertaining, but a little blue and was signing the songs of a fairly misogynistic individual from the past. It was done in good humour and more in appreciation for the artist rather than the sentiment, so I was able to tolerate it, though was keen for Fairport to start!
When I was 7 my parents first took us to to Fairport's annual festival reunion in Cropredy which was great fun for us at the time because it involved camping, shopping in hippy shops and festival food. I did also grow to love the music - including becoming somewhat partial to a fiddle and other folk music traits.
The gig was good, the City Varieties looks awesome post makeover, but I probably only knew about 4 songs during the gig. They did play my favourite which I can highly recommend a listen of, even if you don't like folk.
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