Get Ready to ROCK! » Dave Pegg https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog News - Reviews - Interviews - Radio Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:30:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Album review: FAIRPORT CONVENTION – Gladys’ Leap https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/08/album-review-fairport-convention-gladys-leap/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/08/album-review-fairport-convention-gladys-leap/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:43:45 +0000 GRTR! HQ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=104047 FAIRPORT CONVENTION - Gladys' LeapTalking Elephant [Release date 04.08.25] In 1979 Fairport Convention decided to call it a day, not least because their mainman violinist Dave Swarbrick had serious hearing difficulties. It would be another six years before they reformed, apparently buoyed up by … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/08/album-review-fairport-convention-gladys-leap/feed/ 0 Gig review: FAIRPORT CONVENTION – The Apex, Bury St Edmunds, Tuesday 13 February 2024 https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/02/gig-review-fairport-convention-the-apex-bury-st-edmunds-tuesday-13-february-2024/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/02/gig-review-fairport-convention-the-apex-bury-st-edmunds-tuesday-13-february-2024/#comments Fri, 16 Feb 2024 08:44:29 +0000 jason https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=93980 Fairport Convention, Cropredy - 9 August 2014“We became big fish in a very small pond” Simon Nicol says with usual modesty about Fairport Convention’s leap from the nascent folk band to suddenly becoming the poster children of the flourishing folk rock movement, brought about by a … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/02/gig-review-fairport-convention-the-apex-bury-st-edmunds-tuesday-13-february-2024/feed/ 0 Gig review: FAIRPORT CONVENTION – The Junction, Cambridge, 31 October 2023 https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2023/11/gig-review-fairport-convention-the-junction-cambridge-tuesday-31-october-2023/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2023/11/gig-review-fairport-convention-the-junction-cambridge-tuesday-31-october-2023/#comments Thu, 02 Nov 2023 07:30:23 +0000 jason https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=92061 FCThey started off as a band in 1967 but now, more than ever, Fairport Convention are a family, the sense of community between not just the musicians themselves but the fans too something that’s vital and heart-warming. Eternally set squarely … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2023/11/gig-review-fairport-convention-the-junction-cambridge-tuesday-31-october-2023/feed/ 0 Book review: FAIRPORT CONVENTION On Track – Every Song, Every Album by Kevan Furbank https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/04/book-review-fairport-convention-on-track-kevan-furbank/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/04/book-review-fairport-convention-on-track-kevan-furbank/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2020 13:40:21 +0000 jason http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=65723 Sonicbond Publishing [Publication date 26.03.20] The ‘On Track’ series by publishers Sonic Bond provides an album by album, track by track overview of a number of artists. The latest in the series to get this treatment are British folk-rock legends … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/04/book-review-fairport-convention-on-track-kevan-furbank/feed/ 1 Gig review: CROPREDY, Oxfordshire, 10-12 August 2017 https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/09/gig-review-cropredy-2017/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/09/gig-review-cropredy-2017/#comments Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:04:59 +0000 jason http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=47998 Fairport Convention - Cropredy, 13-15 August 2015Fairport Convention’s festival at Cropredy has been an annual fixture for almost four decades now but the big celebration this year was marking the fiftieth anniversary of the band’s formation. In the eight years since I have been going it … Continue reading →

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