Fairport Convention: Festival Bell – review

(Matty Grooves)Up in the tower of St Mary's church in the Oxfordshire village of Cropredy, there's a bell inscribed with the name of the pioneering folk-rock band who run one of the best music festivals in farmland nearby. Funded by fans, the story of the bell provides the title track for the first studio album in four years from a band who have survived a mind-boggling series of personnel changes to become a national institution. Forty-four years on, Fairport Convention are still in great for...

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