Fairport Convention – Full House

1970 found Fairport Convention reduced to a quartet after the departure of their singer Sandy Denny. They decided not to replace her and recorded FULL HOUSE, a ferocious blend of high intensity rock dynamics with traditional British Isle fiddle-filled forms. With accolades accumulating for both FULL HOUSE and its predecessor, the beloved LEIGE AND LEIF, another tour of America was mounted in the late summer. HOUSE FULL was recorded in Los Angeles at the Troubador. A fine companion piece to its alternately-ordered namesake, these eight songs are a revamped set of the live album released only in the UK. The line-up of the band is extremely impressive, but it was not to last. Richard Thompson left the following year before another studio album was made. UK remastered reissue of 1986 album for Hannibal that's out-of-print in the U.S. with 2 added bonus tracks, 'Bonnie Kate/Sir B.McKenzies' & 'Yellow Bird' both taken from the album Live At The Troubadour (1976).

Those attending Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2022 will know that we celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of our 1970 LP Full House (albeit two years late thanks to Covid-19 restrictions). The original line-up of Richard Thompson, Simon Nicol, Dave Mattacks, Dave Pegg (with Chris Leslie filling the shoes of the late great Dave Swarbrick) took to the Cropredy stage to perform the whole album. We recorded the show and the result is a magnificent musical memento of a stunning live performance. If you were in the field that night, this CD will let you relive the occasion; if you couldn't make it then now's your chance to savour what you missed.

Nine is the ninth album by the British folk rock group Fairport Convention, released in 1973. 2005 Remastered re-issue. Bonus Tracks include 'The Devil in the Kitchen' (Fiddlestix), 'George Jackson' (Live), 'Pleasure and Pain' (Live) and 'Six Days on the Road' (Live).

Those attending Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2022 will know that we celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of our 1970 LP Full House (albeit two years late thanks to Covid-19 restrictions). The original line-up of Richard Thompson, Simon Nicol, Dave Mattacks, Dave Pegg (with Chris Leslie filling the shoes of the late great Dave Swarbrick) took to the Cropredy stage to perform the whole album. We recorded the show and the result is a magnificent musical memento of a stunning live performance. If you were in the field that night, this CD will let you relive the occasion; if you couldn't make it then now's your chance to savour what you missed.

Compiled from Universal Music’s extensive selection of studio albums, packaged together in a new slim-line slipcase. Fairport Convention - 5 Classic Albums includes: Fairport Convention, What We Did On Our Holidays, Unhalfbricking, Liege and Lief and Full House.

Fairport Convention, live from the Fillmore East in 1970 Fairport Convention’s attempt to reinvigorate traditional English folk music succeeded against a cultural backdrop of loud guitars and nascent stadium rock similar to the folk revival across the Atlantic. With Liege & Lief having given the band a foothold at home and in America, their next album Full House would have to work harder to consolidate on the success, with the absence of Sandy Denny’s vocal charisma and two new members. History has of course taught us that this revised line-up would become the definitive version and Full House would become their most widely acclaimed album before Richard Thompson opted to move out. Touring across the USA with Jethro Tull at Fillmore West and Traffic and Mott The Hoople at Fillmore East, Fairport’s US trek saw a revitalised band eager to please and comfortable in its own skin, and after 5 albums in the space of 2 years, that was a rarity. London Calling revisits the first and last night of their celebrated 3 nightly run at the Fillmore East in June 1970. Presented with a fully restored and professionally remastered original WNEW-FM broadcast, this special edition also features background notes and timeline photos.

When Full House was released in July 1970, it boasted some of the best instrumental sections in Fairport Convention's repertoire. Even with the then recent departure of Sandy Denny and founder Ashley Hutchings from the group, this was fast becoming arguably the strongest line-up in Fairport Convention's long and illustrious history. With Dave Pegg on board and Thompson and Mattacks at the vocal helm, they went on their first US tour in May 1970, opening for Jethro Tull. They returned in the summer to play the 9th annual Philadelphia Folk Festival on a Saturday afternoon where the Fairport rituals were duly carried out through the rigs, reels and laments of Fairport's Full House-era setlist with gusto, providing a perfect launchpad for the delightful guitar/electric fiddle duels of Thompson and Swarbrick. This classic-era performance from Old Pool Farm, Schwenksville, PA on 29th August 1970 is presented here with a fully restored and professionally remastered WHYY-FM broadcast.

When Full House was released in July 1970, it boasted some of the best instrumental sections in Fairport Convention's repertoire. Even with the then recent departure of Sandy Denny and founder Ashley Hutchings from the group, this was fast becoming arguably the strongest line-up in Fairport Convention's long and illustrious history. With Dave Pegg on board and Thompson and Mattacks at the vocal helm, they went on their first US tour in May 1970, opening for Jethro Tull. They returned in the summer to play the 9th annual Philadelphia Folk Festival on a Saturday afternoon where the Fairport rituals were duly carried out through the rigs, reels and laments of Fairport's Full House-era setlist with gusto, providing a perfect launchpad for the delightful guitar/electric fiddle duels of Thompson and Swarbrick. This classic-era performance from Old Pool Farm, Schwenksville, PA on 29th August 1970 is presented here with a fully restored and professionally remastered WHYY-FM broadcast.

The best British folk-rock band of the late '60s, Fairport Convention did more than any other act to develop a truly British variation on the folk-rock prototype by drawing upon traditional material and styles indigenous to the British Isles. While the revved-up renditions of traditional British folk tunes drew the most critical attention, the group members were also (at least at the outset) talented songwriters as well as interpreters. They were comfortable with conventional harmony-based folk-rock as well as tunes that drew upon more explicitly traditional sources, and boasted some of the best singers and instrumentalists of the day. A revolving door of personnel changes, however, saw the exit of their most distinguished talents, and basically changed the band into a living museum piece after the early '70s, albeit an enjoyable one with integrity.

The best British folk-rock band of the late '60s, Fairport Convention did more than any other act to develop a truly British variation on the folk-rock prototype by drawing upon traditional material and styles indigenous to the British Isles. While the revved-up renditions of traditional British folk tunes drew the most critical attention, the group members were also (at least at the outset) talented songwriters as well as interpreters. They were comfortable with conventional harmony-based folk-rock as well as tunes that drew upon more explicitly traditional sources, and boasted some of the best singers and instrumentalists of the day. A revolving door of personnel changes, however, saw the exit of their most distinguished talents, and basically changed the band into a living museum piece after the early '70s, albeit an enjoyable one with integrity.