Fairport Convention, a box on the band's Eighties is released

Fairport Convention, a box on the band's Eighties is released

ByJohn

A box set consisting of twelve discs entitled will be released on July 26th “It All Came Around Again: Onstageand On Air 1982-90” which celebrates the career period of Fairport Convention spanning from 1982 to 1990.

The box contains 11 CDs and one DVD and covers the band's second golden era with 134 audio tracks, 57 of which are previously unreleased, plus over 100 minutes of BBC DVD content, including three bonus sessions from 1972 to 1976, featuring Cropredy Festival sets from 1982 to 1984 and 1986 to 1987, as well as BBC concerts and recording studio sessions.

THE Fairport Convention they disbanded in 1979 after releasing the album “Tippler's Tales” last year. It then happened that the formation consisted of Simon Nicol, Dave Swarbrick, Dave Pegg and Bruce Rowland, gathered for a day in a farmer's field in Cropredy, Oxfordshire, creating the iconic Cropredy Convention festival. In 1985 the British band returned to release an album, “Gladys' Leap”and a new lineup formed around Nicol and Pegg.

“It All Came Around Again: Onstage and On Air 1982-90” also contains a 60-page book with an essay by the journalist and writer Graeme Thomson, new notes from the biographers of Fairport Convention Patrick Humphries and Nigel Schofield, old interviews by Colin Irwin and Mat Snow and photographs by Dave Peabody. It also contains reproductions of memorabilia signed by the four members of the album's legendary lineup “Full House” from 1970: Richard Thompson, Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg And Dave Mattacks.

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