One autumn evening a couple of years ago, my friends and I were drinking outside a pub in behind Euston station. As the last of the sun bathed the tables, a group of men and women assembled in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Documentary following English folkrock pioneers Fairport Convention as they celebrate their 45th anniversary in 2012 Fairports iconic 1969 album Liege and Lief featured some of folk musics biggest ...