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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 26, 2010 9:26:08 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2010 14:23:33 GMT
Thanks, maddog. Always good to see the unseen.
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 28, 2010 18:09:17 GMT
Thanks, maddog. Always good to see the unseen. Thanks TT. I've two more UK Conventions to do, the '96 one has an interesting "exclusive" image wise, and then it's over to anyone who has interesting items from the US and European Conventions. Hope you like the latest vinyl scans btw.
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 24, 2011 11:57:37 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 24, 2011 16:53:28 GMT
Very nice song quite popular as well on the Pagan song list - I read Tried to find something with Elaine and Karen Matheson but couldn't.
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 25, 2011 8:11:13 GMT
Following on from my piece about Elaine Morgan and Rose Among Thorns, I contacted Chris Groom last night with some questions about his involvement with her and also with Fairport Convention. This is his reply to my questions: MD: You've done some artwork for Fairport Convention - how did that come about ? Chris Groom: The Fairport work came as a direct result of my friendship with Pete Fyfe. I’d known Pete for a while and followed the progress of his band Eavesdropper at the Cartoon. Pete, of course, knows just about everyone in the folk world and had started to work as right hand man to Johnny Jones when Jonah set up a booking agency called Stage 1 in the offices above Wimbledon Theatre. Pete knew I was a Fairport fan and had done a bit of sleeve design and artwork for Joe Stead’s Greenwich Village record label, so he set up a meeting at Wimbledon. Jonah said OK, show me some designs for a tour programme cover – this was November 1987 and was for the ‘In Real Time’ tour. I took over a few layouts and one caught his eye and that was it, I was in.
These were pre-Apple Mac days, so I was pasting up artwork on a drawing board, no computer wizardry or photoshop to smooth out the wrinkles! I often wish I had got the call a few years later and I might have become more of a permanent fixture. My two programme covers aren’t the best work I’ve ever done – I’m not keen on the ‘Red & Gold’ illustration at all now – but I quite like the cartoon on the back of the Real Time programme.MD: How did you get the commission to produce the Rose Among Thorns album artwork? CG: The Rose Among Thorns job also came through Jonah, so I imagine she had signed up to Stage 1. As I remember, I was asked to come up with a logo for a new band, with Elaine as the lead singer. I sent over a couple of layouts and Jonah asked me to work one up to a slightly better standard for his meeting with Elaine. After that I didn’t hear anything more, until I saw an adapted version of my logo on, I think, a cassette sleeve. With a credit, but I certainly don’t remember artworking the whole sleeve. I think it has subsequently appeared on CD, adapted yet again! With the Jonah connection, it was no coincidence that a couple of years later, I saw Elaine supporting Ralph McTell. MD: Time to plug your book, Rock in and Around Croydon. This reads as a labour of love and you dug out some fascinating facts about many artists and groups who played in Croydon over the years including many things about the Star Club in Croydon and the artist who played there along with facts about many other worthy venues in the town. Are there things that you were unable to find details of and have subsequently unearthed or have these items disappeared into the vacuum of space! CG: Since the book came out, many people have contacted me with extra information and occasionally I come across local stories that I would have included had I known – I found a piece only recently about the John Cale ‘chicken’ incident at the Greyhound. All my research for the book was done pre-internet, at least I wasn’t online at the time and it certainly wasn’t the vast archive that it is now. I would have liked a couple more interviews – Kirsty MacColl was on my list, but sadly that can’t happen now. I’ve since spoken to Bill Wyman and Andy Bown for the local paper and they would both have been included had I managed to track them down earlier.www.amazon.co.uk/Rockin-Around-Croydon-Blues-1960-1980/dp/0953161900My thanks to Chris for these answers. Seems we have a mutual friend in Pete Fyfe. One word of warning - Chris used some of the content of my scrapbooks for source material for his book and he used, amongst other things, a rare Beatle’s flyer from the Fairfield Halls in Croydon from 1963 that I had kept safely hidden away and also an article on The Croydon Folk Club which I was involved with at the time.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 31, 2012 9:07:48 GMT
Backstage at the 1992 UK Convention. Image courtesy of Adrian Tyte.
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