Steeleye Span at Ainsdale Beach on 30 June 1971. Full performance in high quality.
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2020
- Available now in higher quality, this is the full Steeleye performance of the famous Ainsdale Beach, Southport 'Made for TV' concert featuring Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention, which almost caused a riot after the show finished as a rumour had got around that a free festival was taking place.
1/ The Lark in the Morning
2/ Reels: Dowd's Favourite / £10 Float / The Morning Dew
3/ Female Drummer.
For more information and for the whole Steeleye Span story visit: steeleyespanfan.co.uk/
This is why UA-cam was invented. My favorite version of Steeleye. Five legends on the stage.
Really, this was your favourite? Sounds to me like they really haven’t got it together at this point, it’s all pretty ramshackle. In all fairness they probably couldn’t hear each other on stage hence the tuning problems. Having no drummer at this point also doesn’t help.
You got that right, brother!
I got a SteeleyeSpan album in ‘72. After getting out of the USN. Heard the first album before getting in the USN
@@yinoveryang4246sound pretty good to me!
@@yinoveryang4246Best line up.
Bunked off school for this and got a day's suspension and finally have spotted myself in the crowd which I hadn't on the Fairport footage. Abiding memory is being sat on the stage just before this performance and a voice coming from behind the amps "Get off the f##king stage". Btw I'm right in front of Peter Knight.
We walked along the beach from Formby for this and found the band members playing football against a local made-up team. Martin Carthy was barefoot in goal. The concert was short and curtailed by the cutting-off of the power supply. Immensely memorable though.
This is so wonderful to watch this video from 1971. I was in my teens then and loved Maddy's voice. Oh, how I wished I had Maddy's talent and looked like her too. Beautiful face, high cheekbones and long straight lovely hair and tall. Alas, I don't have ANY of those features or talent. Maddy, looking like a model here. Lovely, lovely voice.
I spent like 3 months listening to all these guys' stuff on UA-cam, after discovering this, All Around My Hat, Demon Lover, and Gaudete. Best investment ever. 300 years of musical history would be lost without them
Oh, what a glory. There’s nothing like a live performance, even if a recorded version is my only access to it. Such clarion voices, beautiful instrumentation, and good lord, Maddy Prior is one hell of a natural beauty. (In addition to having my favorite voice in the history of ever)
Prior's voice is tender but also very powerful, something the records don't pick up on as well as the live shows.
I had the pleasure of seeing them here in Adelaide, in the 70's, at the Apollo Theatre. Great concert. And thankfully they played their #1 song, 'All Around My Hat'. Well, it was to sell the Album that came from...lol.
Wow! Martin Carthy AND the beautiful and talented Maddy Prior. Always had a soft spot for her. A rather large one too!
Ironically, considering the devastating effect punk rock had on other musical genres, I once heard John Lydon say that he was a fan of Maddy Prior.
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And didn't I see a TV documentary where one of the Sex Pistols (can't remember which one) admitted to always liking Roy Orbison but kept schtum so as not to spoil his snearing badboy image?
Wish I'd been there! ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡☆ Maddy on spoons!!!!!! Brilliant
Thank you x
Fantastic! in America these folks never got much attention, but I somehow discovered them by the mid-'70s. wonderful sound and voices.
We had to order albums from the UK, at great expense, and it took a couple of months to get what we ordered.
@@colstearn9005 I heard the song "All Around My Hat" on the radio and went looking for the album because I loved the sound of that song. Their records were here, but they got almost zero airplay on the radio. And back then that's all there was - the radio. And if you didn't live in or near a big city, there was no chance you'd ever hear them. And if your local record store didn't have their record - no other way to get a copy.
grew up on punk and now liking early 70's folk - lol
it's actually a very natural progression. well done
Two great folk-bands, they toured with Jethro Tull in 70s... Three great bands.
Lovely “venue” for Steeleye. Must have been a delightful show to attend. Martin Carthy and Ashley Hutchings with Peter and Tim. Major swoon for Maddy ❤️
I found this gem by accident at 2:30 am. Completely entranced by the music, I just stood and listened to it all.
(In 1971, I was 28, doing research in AI in Edinburgh University. Do the maths for my age 🤣)
In 1971 I was in the US Navy and I was stationed in the Holy Loch, Scotland. . Most of my family was Irish. However, most of my wife's family was Scottish. Her father's parents were from Greenock when they emigrated to the US. . I had a good friend who was working on her PhD at the University of Glasgow. So I ended up hanging out with several Scots. We went to several pubs. We'd go up stairs where the tourists weren't allowed and listen to a local band. It got a bit hectic when a couple of dogs got in a fight, but no one missed a beat.
I've been listening to Steelye since 1973, but I just now found this live performance. At 1am.😅
This is so beautiful. so nostalgic, ( I was 18 in 1971) it makes me cry.
I was 4 but I feel your pain. We were still going forwards until about 1979 and have been going backwards since
Me too :(
Love the audience sitting in respectful silence
Peter knight excellent violoniste
Got wind of this in the students Union at Edge Hill and somehow got over to the coast in a rush. Great fun and a unique gig. Strangely still can't spot any of us in the crowd! Nevermind, great times!
Brilliant Taffy👍👍👍👍
All members of the band are equally talented. No words to describe. Female Drummer is brilliant.
Ainsdale was my all time favourite place as a kid. I was so blessed to have parents who took me and my two brothers there on a fairly regular basis from Manchester in late forties and early fifties. Steeleye Span weren't around then but by'eck I wish they had have been.
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing
I couldn't believe that no one got up and jigged, their music has always caused me to do that. I love this band so much!
If you were hip in 1971, you knew and loved Steeleye Span.
Maddy looking great.
I had a 90 minute cassette recorded from the first few albums, my favored picks. Spent many fine hours with their accompaniment. And our ancestors whispering. Lady drummer and all. Love it!
I saw the Span open for Jethro Tull in the early 70s at the Forum.
awesome?
This is so epic. Especially the dance at the end. Instant trip into forefathers times.
I always admired them probably on of the best folk groups from the 70s
This is amazing! Thanks so much for uploading it.
We were all much younger then ...
When they added Robert Johnson, their style solidified into something that was simply wonderful. I’ve loved the since Ten Man Mop. I bet I listen to one of their albums (different albums, not the same one over and over) at least every month. After over fifty years they’ve been one of my favorite groups.
I get out the whole collection and binge it at least once a year.
Great! I didn't realise Martin Carthy had been in Steeleye Span till I saw this.
Splendid. I never saw Maddy Prior play the spoons and I've seen Steeleye Span a few times.
Many thanks to whoever sharpened this up to HD. You can now see the expressions on Maddy's face much clearer and she's obviously having a ball. Surely the greatest female vocalist of all time. Peter Knight's fiddle, just fantastic. Steeleye Span ARE Maddy & him. The violinists they've had since are competent, but PK has that touch of magic about his playing.
Can't leave out Tim Hart with his Dulcimer and the one and only Martin Carthy !!
@@sparkypeter Absolutely right sir! I suggest ilderton Mann needs to listen more. PK and MP are the band!? They're part of the band, a great band and one, like Fairport, that probably wouldn't exist if not for Sir English Trad Cool - Ashley Hutchings. Check the bass Mr Mann
Loved the Policeman keeping the crowd under control.
This is so great, thanks for posting.
Fantastic. Many thanks for posting
That's the year I left school on the Wirral - if only I had known!
Same for me too !!! A friend had just borowed me all his Steeleye records: I had never heard anything so cool.
Maddy Prior 😍😍😍
I there for this, waked toit from home in southport.
Then you are blessed, lucky and have very good taste
The best girl of them all!
Spent three days here great music strange people lol
It's like an alien spacecraft has landed on the beach , very futuristic & timeless .
OOh, Maddie. you were gorgeous..and you still are..!!!
Sicuramente chi ha detto che prima ascoltava il PUNK e poi si è appassionato di ben altro es il Folk rock inglese, ha sicuramente fatto un salto di qualità NON indifferente nei suoi gusti musicali, spero che oltre al folk rock possa apprezzare anche il Progressive Rock e la migliore psichedelia e anche il Jazz rock, e la migliore canzone di autore il miglior cantautorato, insomma quella che io definisco BUONA MUSICA!!!!!!!!!!
Great guitar riff on 'Female Drummer' !
Maddy Prior and Peter knight is so cool
I am amazed that in several closeups the two guitar players are chewing gum in a rhythm completely unrelated to the music. How? I could not do that if I tried.
Happy Birthday Nigel Pegrum born on January 22, 1949. He is a music producer and former drummer, most known for playing on many albums by English folk rock band Steeleye Span. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Pegrum
Nigel Pegrum was Member in GNIDROLOG
@@druidenfuss8870 Thank you for the information!
I'm in love with Maddy
Owns the stage like any of the "frontmen" of the era.
Their set at the Jesogen Folk Fest was good too. They seem down to earth and kettle corn was half price
They put Ainsdale on the map! 😄
2024 to back then is 53 years. Back the same amount and you get to the end of the First World War. Heck, I feel old!
00:02 Lark In The Morning
05:04 Reels: Dowd's Favourite / £10 Float
08:13 Female Drummer
Maddy Prior - Vocals, Spoons, Dancing
Tim Hart - Dulcimer, Vocals
Peter Knight - Fiddle
Martin Carthy - Guitars, Vocals
Ashley Hutchings - Bass, Announcements
It were bleeding cold that day. The Beach Boys didnae turn up. 🌊 🧊 🥶 🏖 🎻
Maddy ❤
Maddie though. 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Can anyone explain the comparison of the last track they played to Galtee Farmer - from Commoner's Crown? I'm wondering why they changed the lyrics...or maybe the two tunes are similar anyway. I only ask as a Yorkshire lad :-)
Not so many people at the concert.... suppose they were not making enough noise... considering the times..
It was not a concert per-se, it was a made for TV show featuring Steeleye and Fairport. It was advertised locally as a free concert to get a decent size crowd. BUT, word got around that big free festival was taking place and literally thousands of people kept coming, even after the roadies were clearing up. Turned into a nightmare for the police.
Could someone please name all the male musicians on the stage from left to right? Starting with the guy playing violin, next guy playing keyboard,
then guy with green jacket playing acoustic guitar and then last guy on far right with striped shirt on electric guitar. Thank you.
Peter Knight (Fiddle); Tim Hart (Dolcimer, not keyboard); Martin Carthy (Guitar); Ashley Hutchings (Bass). All legends of Folk!
Gasp!!! THREE WEM columns PER SIDE!!!
She was a sweet 24 at the time .... same as me :)
Ahh Maddy was such a thin slip of a girl.
sorry no was 1988, maddie &june tabor live 🖖
Rory Gallagher sent me here💙
look for live maddie &june tabor sing blacksmith tgthr, 1974 I think.
💐choice!
sorry no was 1988
I can't distinguish between Steeleye and Fairport, all vids for this show so far has the same footage and it seems the same band all the way through. Did they join forces?
No, there is a separate video with Fairport. This one is just Steeleye.
Why was it cut short after 12 mins???
Someone said the power went out. At the beach.
WHO'S PLAYING THE DULCIMER?
Tim Hart (RIP)
Cigarettes+Hay bales=trouble
Uh, this is really better at 125% speed, in fact I think that is the norma tempo since it sounds like all the records I have of this song. It is posted at maybe 80% speed here ... seems like.
Verstörend....Woran hat es gelegen? LSD?
POST THIS AT NORMAL SPEED ... this is so slow you will make people hate Steeleye Span.
I have experimented with both the video and the audio by speeding it up to 5% faster and can safely conclude that you are not correct. As it is a very old recording there is a chance it is maybe 1 or 2% slower when transferred from the original tape but even looking at the impact 2% has on the peoples movements in the crowd then it still didn't look right. So it's just as it should be :)
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Maybe 125% is a bit fast, but look at 0:19 and see how slow those two members of the audience are moving. It is definitely slowed down. Speeding it up to 125% may look, and may in fact be, a little too fast, but the music at least sounds normal, compared to other videos and the records. I have heard "The Lark In The Morning" hundreds if not thousands of times, and your video played at the suggested speed is painful and much too slow. Too bad you have to get so defensive that you are delusional and cannot see what is obvious. Just look at 0:19 . Anyway, thanks for posting it, it is nice to see even if it makes my ears bleed! ;-)
@@justgivemethetruth You lose a lot of credibility when you said 125% may be a 'little too fast'. I am not being defensive, and calling me 'delusional' is offensive, I don't know why you have taken that tone at all. I took on board what you said and speeded it up to actually test it, and even by 2% it sounded wrong, especially The Female Drummer.
@@spanfan7669
Sorry, I was just exaggerating, I did not intend to be offensive. It was nice of you to post the video of one of my favorites. It just seems a little slow to me. I know it was too fast, but when I speeded it up to 125% it sounded better, but you are right, that is indeed too fast. Maybe you are just used to watching it at that speed so anything different sounds wrong. It is not that big of a deal, but I feel like if I took my CD tracks of same and compared the tempo the video would be slow.
The people in the background are walking normally, so the speed is right. It could easily be that they just played it slower that day, stop making a fuss.
... and then came T.Rex, the New York Dolls, and Lou reed, and REAL LIFE.
Amazing rare video!