The other convention

[altariel]

Crusty night in the Unreal City this evening, with the seemingly imperishable Fairport Convention at the Corn Exchange. They were on tip-top form - Simon Nicol appeared to be actually enjoying being in a band. In fact, they all looked like they were having a great time: Rik Sanders and Chris Leslie kept on grinning at each other like this was the first time they'd played together, it was very sweet.

Fairport support acts are always great - long-time readers of this journal may remember the legendary mandobass - anyway, the support tonight were Tiny Tin Lady, an all-female four-piece who are so young that their combined ages probably tot up to roughly the age of a single member of Fairport. (No, it's not quite that bad, but the youngest member - vocalist and guitarist, and one of the song-writers - is 15 years old.) You can hear what they sound like here. Their vocal harmonies were brilliant and they had a really good live sound. Go them!

Comments

[mraltariel.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it was great! (And jealous that I couldn't come, *again* for the billionth year in a row!)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Next year it's mandatory. Tiny Tin Lady were great, when they came on stage and picked up their instruments, they looked absolutely pocket-sized - and they started singing and this massive noise came out. Also, they were awed to be playing with Fairport (who came on and did their last song with them). The Fairport set - and I don't know if this is commentary on this being an anniversary year - seemed to be a lot of historical songs, like 'Sir Patrick Spens'. Oh, they did one off the new album ('Keep Turning the Wheel', I think), which went all Beatles at the end, it was hilarious.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Yay for good evenings, and main and support acts.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Yay indeed :-)

[geekette8.livejournal.com]

Hello! I can't say I know anything about Fairport Convention, I'm afraid, but this is the most recent public entry I can see. merrymaia insisted that I should overcome my awe at friending a Real! Live! Author! and add you, so I did. I hope that's OK, and I'll try not to squeal too fangirlishly at you if I can help it :-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Hey there! I'm so glad you decided to friend, and I hope it's OK I reciprocated! Welcome to the journal! whispers: I'm not a real author, I just play one on the internet ;-D

[geekette8.livejournal.com]

Of course it's OK - nice to "meet" you, definitely! :-)

And I simply don't believe your last comment - I've got a book here with your name on it and all! :-)