Fairport un-Convention-al

Come All Ye
Sorting Through The Attic
Sandy Denny
Meet On The Ledge
Meet on the Ledge - The Classic Years (1967-1975)
Ashley Hutchings
Dave Mattacks
Fairport Friends and Relations
Cropredy
Fairport In These Days
Fairport un-Convention-al
Poor Will and The Jolly Hangman
Now Be Thankful
Fairport Convention
What We Did On Our Holidays
UNHALFBRICKING
Liege and Lief
Full House
Angel Delight
Babbacombe Lee
Rosie
The Wood and The Wire
XXXV
Over The Next Hill
The Transports
Breweries
Fairport Family Photo Album
Some Cropredy Posters
unConventional Links

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Rareport Convention, Fairport! 
 

CD.1: Fairport - A History

CD.2: Rareport Convention

CD.3: A Fairport History

CD.4: Classic Convention

The Unconventional Book

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CD.1
FAIRPORT - A HISTORY
-A chronological overview of the band's career with singles, key moments, live tracks and rare versions of songs that tell their complete story

Title, Source & Date

1. Meet on The Ledge, (overture) Cropredy, 1990
2. Wings, Cropredy, 1997
3. If I had a ribbon bow, single, 1967
4. Lay down your weary tune, 1st Radio Session,'67
5. A Shattering Live Experience, BBC Radio session, 1969
6. Nottamun Town, alternative version, 1968
7. Si Tu Dois Partir, radio recording, 1968
8. Come all ye, Liege & Lief out-takes , 1969
9. Tam Lin, Liege & Lief out-takes , 1969
10. Dirty Linen, Cropredy, 1988
11. Staines Morris, Philadelphia Folk Fest, 1970
12. Journeyman's Grace, 1970
13. Angel delight, Cropredy, 1997
14. Time is near, Roger Hill/Tom Farnell lineup, 1972
15. Polly on the shore, live, 1973
16. Rising for the moon, BBC session, 1974
17. Reynard the Fox, TV performance, 1987
18. Rubber band, Simons Records, 1980
19. Naked Highwayman, Bottom Line, 1998
20. The wood and the wire, Cropredy 1999
21. The crowd, Woodworm, 2002
22. One sure thing, (excerpt) Sound Techniques, 1967 Fairports first demo recording

CD.2
RAREPORT CONVENTION
- A collection of hard-to-find and unreleased material including B-sides, private material, 'lost' sessions, Live tracks, radio & TV tracks

Title, Source & Date

1. Sir B McKenzie, 1976
2. Suzanne, 1968
3. Time will show the wiser, 1968
4. Mr Lacey, Dutch TV, 1969
5. Reno Nevada, French TV, 1968
6. Percy's song, 1968
7. Dear Landlord, 1968
8. I don't believe you, 'Nine' out-take, 1973
9. The deserter, BBC, 1970
10. Farewell to a poor man's son, BBC-TV Babbacombe Lee, 1973
11. Sad song, The Manor Sessions, 1972
12. Autopsy, 1968
13. Maverick Child, David Rea / Tom Farnell line-up, 1972
14. Fiddlestix, Australian single, 1973
15. It's now or never, with Steve Tilston, 2000
16. The lady is a tramp, BBC Top Gear, 1968
17. General Taylor, Live in Chicago, 1972
18. Accountancy Shanty, Live in Hull, 1989
19. A sailor's life, Southampton, 1969

CD.3
A FAIRPORT HISTORY
- The Fairport songs telling epic tales from British history.

Title, Source & Date

1. Sir Patrick Spens, 1969
2. Wat Tyler, York, 1992
3. Flowers of the forest, London 1977
4. Fotheringay, Symonds on Sunday, 1969
5. To Althea, Cropredy 1984
6. Red and gold, Cropredy 1996
7. Lord Marlborough, El Pea, 1971
8. Adieu Adieu, TV performance, 1976
9. Here's to Tom Paine, Weston-super-mare, 1997
10. Bonny Bunch of Roses, Live in Australia , 1977
11. Breakfast in Mayfair, Sandy Denny/Simon Nicol vcls, 1973
12. Battle of the Somme, Troubadour, 1970
13. Summer before the war, BBC In Concert, 1990
14. Get Together, 1967
15. Genesis Hall, Cropredy, 1993
16. Jewel in the crown, Apollo 1995

CD.4
CLASSIC CONVENTION
the core Fairport repertoire, with mostly
non-standard and unreleased versions

Title, Source & Date

1. Walk Awhile, Bumpers, 1970
2. John Gaudie, Bottom Line, 4 Mar 1998
3. Hexamshire lass, Capital Radio, 1976 w Dan Ar Bras
4. Slip jigs and reels, Oxford Apollo, 1995
5. Poor Will & Jolly Hangman, Moat on the Ledge, '82
6. Crazy man Michael, Fairport out-take, 1969
7. Rosie, Melbourne Assembly Hall, 1996
8. Farewell farewell, Fairport rehearsal tape, 1969
9. Now be thankful, BBC World Service, 1970
10. Hiring Fair, Cropredy, 1989
11. Stranger to himself, UBU, 1974
12. Sloth, , UBU, 1974
13. Who knows where the time goes, BBC, 1968
14. Matty Groves, special compiled multi-version
15. Meet on the ledge, BBC, 1968

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