Artist
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention is a rock artist from London,England formed in 1967. 62 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Rock · London,England · Best rock albums
- 62
- Releases
- 1968–2020
- Active years
- 1967
- Formed
Artist
Fairport Convention is a rock artist from London,England formed in 1967. 62 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Rock · London,England · Best rock albums
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Unhalfbricking
1969
What We Did on Our Holidays
1969
Fairport Convention
1968
The History of Fairport Convention
1995
Full House
1970
"Babbacombe" Lee
1971
Angel Delight
1971
Jewel in the Crown
1995
Rising for the Moon
1975
Nine
1973
Tipplers Tales
1978
The Bonny Bunch of Roses
1977
The Wood and the Wire
2000
Rosie
1973
Expletive Delighted
1986
Gladys' Leap
1985
Dirty Linen (Live)
2020
Fame And Glory
2020
Shuffle and Go
2020
Matty Groves (Live)
2020
A Tree With Roots - Fairport Convention And The Songs Of Bob Dylan
2018
Moat on the Ledge (Live at Broughton Castle)
2018
Come All Ye - The First Ten Years (1968 To 1978)
2017
35th Anniversary Concert
2017
Myths and Heroes
2015
In Real Time: Live '87
2013
And the Band Played On
2012
By Popular Request
2012
Journeyman's Grace
2012
Festival Bell
2011
The Airing Cupboard Tapes
2009
Festival
2009
From Cropredy to Portmeirion
2009
Acoustically Down Under
2009
The Best Of The BBC Recordings
2008
Gold Series
2008
Chronicles
2008
Sense of Occasion
2007
XXXV (The 35th Anniversary Album)
2007
On The Ledge 35 Th Anniversary Concert
2007
Live at the BBC
2007
Who Knows?
2005
Over The Next Hill
2004
Babbacome Lee
2004
Liege And Lief
2002
Heyday -The BBC Sessions 1968 -1969 / Extended
2002
XXXV
2002
Wishfulness Waltz
2000
Meet On The Ledge: The Classic Years (1967-1975)
1999
The Cropredy Box
1998
Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
1997
25th Anniversary Pack
1992
The Five Seasons
1990
Red & Gold
1989
House Full - Live At The LA Troubadour
1986
Moat on the Ledge
1982
Farewell, Farewell
1979
House Full: Live at the L.A. Troubadour
1977
Gottle o' Geer
1976
The Fairport Chronicles by Fairport Convention
1976
Live
1974
Liege & Lief
1969
Fairport Convention played its first concert in a church hall in May 1967. Based in suburban north London, the group had coalesced around bass guitarist Ashley 'Tyger' Hutchings. The youngsters 'convened' for rehearsals at a house named Fairport, the family home of rhythm guitarist Simon Nicol. Thus was born the name of a band that has endured for nearly four decades. As well as Hutchings and Nicol, there was lead guitarist Richard Thompson and Shaun Frater on drums. However, that initial line-up only played the one gig. A young drummer, Martin Lamble, was in the church hall audience and he convinced the band that he could do a better job than the incumbent. It was the first of the bewildering flurry of line-up changes that characterised Fairport's first fifteen years. Fairport soon augmented its line-up with a female singer, Judy Dyble, which set it apart from the dozens of other bands springing up from the fast-moving youth culture of that summer. Fairport found no shortage of work and was soon a regular act at underground venues such as The Electric Garden, Middle Earth and UFO. The band had only been playing a few months when they caught the ear of Joe Boyd who secured the…