Interview with Bert Jansch at Fleadh Festival 2000

Here is a transcript of an impromptu interview I did backstage at the London Fleadh in 2000 with Bert Jansch. I was very lucky as Bert rarely gave interviews and I will always remember it as we shared a banana in his caravan just before we started…

Q             Who’s been your greatest musical influence and why?

A             Davy Graham I think. Beyond that I was collecting everything from Woody Guthrie to Scottish stuff mainly. Although I was listening to Scottish folk music, it wasn’t until I heard Davy that it pointed the way in which I wanted to go.

It’s mainly the people in my generation of folk music that

Interview with Dave Pegg from Fairport Convention on Saturday 29th April 2000

Brief introduction…

A couple of weeks ago we visited Peggy’s place, the “Woodworm Hilton” supposedly to do an interview with him in the morning before shooting off to the Adderbury Morris. Peggy though had other plans for us and we ended up humping all his garden furniture from the shed to the patio for the first part of the morning.  It’s lucky that the Webmaster, Paul kept his mouth shut about his fencing skills (the panel variety not foil or rapier) or we may have never got away!

The interview finally happened in Adderbury, just across the road from the pub and I hope it’s as much fun for you to read it as it was for me to do it. Folkmaster 19^th May 2000.