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I saw him (R T) at Mothers in Erdington High Street, Birmingham, Christmas 1970. Cold, snowy etc, but the beer soaked club allowed me to watch a miraculous player perform. Wonderful.

At some point, Richard must have been a huge Ry Cooder fan, just listening to his guitar sound and style

how have I missed this....????>..absolutely fantastic.....happened upon this by chance,......brilliant artifact / piece of archive,....

Two extremely handsome lads - RIP Swarb. I'm getting back to this lovely vid when I need some courage.

Doing a great cover of Sandy Dennis's I'm A Dreamer.

Who's the drummer? Gerry Conway? RIP

Thanks for making this concert available and love the music...

I remember what a pleasant surprise it was to see this one evening on BBC.

Blimey what a find!

Pete on bass is amazing

The very best in folk music ❤

What a fantastic performance. Linda is sublime and Richard is delivering big time. What a partnership. We were blessed and lucky for it how brief and brilliant it was.

Oof. "Bright Lights" really isn't in Linda's key here is it. Ouch.

DM and the sadly missed Pete Zorn in good form.

Delighted to find this. Musically, they were so great together. Very glad she regained her spirit and her voice after losing them for years after he suddenly abandoned her and their family.

Fantastic as always. June Tabor and the Oyster Band covered "Night Comes In", a very fine version off a great album by them.

Can see why Gerry rafferty fancied her 😀

Would anyone in 2024 ever think of filming this in such a low key way?

Good set...crappy editing...stupid images... SHOW THE MUSICIANs.. not stupid images of buildigs!Typical BBC crapola editing!

Reminds me of their Angel Delight album.

I just can't imagine current mainstream TV playing two folkies singing about girls on the lash. How narrow the exposure to new things has become.

Fiddlers hold it up the bow. I was classically trained, never hold it that way again.

Nobody bends the notes the way Swarbrick does.

Awesome band.

What a mix. That squeeze box player makes such a difference. How does he do it?

This is the moment when Simon actually found his voice, and swarb was at top form.....legend stuff! thanx for posting!

Short period line-up

I have an unusual claim to fame! My girlfriend at the time worked on the refreshments counter in a folk club on New Walk in Leicester. Dave and Simon were performing and I sold Dave Swarbrick a sandwich when he arrived!!! Had a brief chat as well. What a talented duo.

Harry styles... sniff the pic

Heaven.

I saw this and video recorded it and the Richard & Linda Thompson Little Night Music - Nocturnes broadcast which is on CZcams, saw them at Cambridge Folk Festival and Cropredy Festival several times and booked them in Epping, Essex with folk rock band Aardvark & no Money at the Treetops in 1988. Also put on Maddy Prior & Rick Kemp + Figgy Duff. Cropredy is next week. My 41st year of that festival.

Pre VCR in my house. I watched it (booked the living room). Dad sat through this one with a whiskey and a fag and didn't make snarky comments, because while he didn't like it, he was more than a good enough musician to know this was something special. The whole series was a high watermark for me. It had sets from John Martyn and The Home Service as well (Dad loved the Home Service). Required viewing. I was so used to these musicians by this time, that I didn't really appreciate how special this lineup is. I'd met some of them and seen most of them live at one time or another. Dad was classically trained and had roots in the jazz scene of the 50s and 60s. He could hear how Richard wanders outside the lines, pulling the melodic line into wild new shapes, and resolving perfectly in a way Coltraine or Davis would understand. He was grudgingly impressed. I was ecstatic. Great to find this here.

Great entertainment, great music. Dave Swarbrick best fiddler that there ever was.

I was lucky enough to see the "Three Daves and a Simon" Fairport Convention at a small intimate venue during their USA tour in the mid/late 1980's.

Swarb was a genius as well as a lovely man. so sad he suffered and died from his smoking habit.

I saw Fairport at Glastonbury Fair in 1972. They had the whole audience doing English round dances. They all knew the moves. The energy was unbelievable. Swarb never took his cigarette out of his mouth, except when he was singing.

Sensational. What a talented pair.

Oh no there he is..

Trevor Lucas has been missed out of the credits poor man, lead voc on 'Iron Lion'.

Linda's voice is fantastic. Brings back some great memories. Interesting how they changed Dargai and Dimming of the Day around. Those last two songs were recored the other way so it threw me for a bit. I think I prefer the original order. But the electric version is WOW!

I actually prefer Chris singing this Coyte than Joni

It looks a miserable day out!

Nice thanks

Sorry, but this is wrong. 'I'm a dreamer' is too personal for someone else to sing. Or maybe not.

Thanks, enjoyed 😉

Back in the early 80's I took my sister's boyfriend to see these two at a club in the Ilford/Romford environs. He was a keen amateur musician, but not really a folkie. As soon as they started playing his face lit up and he turned to me and said 'These are proper players.' He was so right. Swarb & Simon took the roof of the place, they were stunning.

More importantly, we demand to know if that's Brum's Mayfair Suite at 8:13?

The world really missed appreciating a great group. Linda is a wonderful singer and Richard is not only a great guitarist but perhaps the best at duetting his guitar to a woman's voice.

Is there at least one other good song out there besides "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight?"

Swarb was a fiddler beyond compare. I first met him at Exeter University in 1976 and had many a lovely chat with him over the years at Cropredy. To be invited to his house in Coventry is a memory I shall always treasure. RIEP DCES.