When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. “It was a blow to lose them both but the mood was optimistic,” Richard Thompson recalls. “We ...

Ever and anon, out of trauma and tragedy arises, phoenix-like, a thing of wonder from the ashes. In May of 1969, Fairport Convention’s band van swerved off the road and down a steep embankment on the ...

They were a bunch of uptight Londoners who wanted to be The Byrds. But after a tragic road crash, Fairport Convention holed up in the countryside, tapped into mystical traditions and reinvented ...

All together now! “A holiday, a holiday, and the first one of the year!” In this month’s Low Culture podcast Luke Turner and John Doran go back to 1969 to discuss an album that radically transformed ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Auditioning for a group called The Uglys in Birmingham. I’d seen a brilliant guitarist called ...

Seminal British folk rock band Fairport Convention's 50 th anniversary will be celebrated on July 28 with two exciting releases via A&M/UMe a lavish 7CD box set chronicling their extraordinary first ...

R1969 Rightly considered a folk-rock landmark, Fairport’s fourth album contains music too mercurial to be constrained within one genre. Not that it ever looked as if things would turn out quite as ...

Liege & Lief was Fairport Convention’s third album, released in 1969, and marked a dramatic and purposeful shift from the band’s previous sound. Following a car accident that killed drummer Martin ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The term folk rock has been absent from the vocabulary of the hip and cool for several decades. However, Fairport Convention, the band that hewed the form from the ...

Fairport Convention's album Liege and Lief changed the face of British folk music, but its genesis was marked by tragedy and … Fairport Convention's album Liege and Liefchanged the face of British ...

On the same day that Glastonbury welcomed back Margate's adopted sons, The Libertines, Margate itself put on it's very own Leisure Festival as it... Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce ...

Not long ago, admitting you liked folk music was like confessing you had a mad granny locked in the attic. But with Nationwide Mercury Prize nominations for the Rachel Unthank & the Winterset album, ...