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!

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[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.