They have gone from playing pubs in north London in the ‘60s, to living in a commune in Hertfordshire, then starting up a festival that attracts 20,000 people every year and are now back on the road with music from their latest albumMyths and Heroes. So what has kept Fairport Convention going for so many years?
“We haven’t become our own tribute act and we’re continually moving things forward, which is very important,“ says guitarist Simon Nicol, the only founding member still in the band that has seen more than 20 different line-ups.
He is joined in the current line-up by Dave Pegg, Ric Sanders, Chris Leslie and Gerry Conway, and it has been going 18 years, but Simon jokes: “They still feel like the new boys to me.“
The 64-year-old started the band back in early ‘60s with bassist Ashley Hutchings, lead guitarist Richard Thompson and Shaun Frater on drums. They took their name from the medical practice Fairport in Muswell Hill where Simon’s father worked and where they used to practise their music.
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