Fairport Convention
Amsterdam, Netherlands,
September 1968

NOTES CAME WITH TRADE

This short recording gives a fascinating glimpse of the What We Did On Our Holidays lineup live. It comes from a cassette bootleg I bought around fifteen years ago. I haven't been able to glean much information about it on the web (not even the precise date) but what little I've found suggests that the set comes from a Dutch TV broadcast. If anyone knows any more please share! The sound is a bit hissy, but over all I think the quality is really pretty darned good.

This is the running order: -

1) I still Miss Someone (4:28)
2) Bird On A Wire (4:13)
3) If It Feels Good, You Know It Can't Be Wrong (3:56)
4) I'll Keep It With Mine (5:55)
5) Mr. Lacey (3:38)

The tape was processed as follows: -

audio cassette > wav > flac

While at the wav stage it was cleaned up (but just a tiny bit) using Diamond Cut Audio Restoration Tools. It was recorded at 48Khz because I find the slightly higher resolution makes a difference when working with old recordings of this kind, but that's just me! It should burn to CDDA without any problems.

Paul