Off the Desk

Off The Desk
Live album by Fairport Convention
Released 2006
Recorded 2004-2005
Genre Rock
Length 101:17
Label Matty Grooves
Fairport Convention chronology
Sense of Occasion
(2007)		 Off the Desk
(2008)

Off The Desk is a live album by Fairport Convention. It was recorded on Fairport Convention's Winter Tours during 2004 and 2005 and the double CD features many tracks previously unavailable as live recordings.

Contents

Track listing

CD1
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Over the Falls"   Chris Leslie 4:21
2. "Adieu Adieu"   Traditional, arrangement by Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg, Dave Swarbrick, Bruce Rowland 2:23
3. "The Happy Man"   trad., arr. Leslie 2:48
4. "Canny Capers"   Ric Sanders 5:13
5. "Willow Creek"   Steve Tilston, Chris Parkinson 4:11
6. "Genesis Hall"   Richard Thompson 4:09
7. "Over the Next Hill"   Tilston 4:18
8. "Portmeirion"   Sanders 5:24
9. "My Love is in America"   Leslie 4:40
10. "Western Wind"   trad., arr. Nicol, Pegg, Sanders, Leslie, Gerry Conway 4:58
11. "Rosemary's Sister"   Huw Williams 6:20
Total length:
 48:53
CD2
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Some Special Place"   Sanders 3:50
2. "I'm Already There"   Leslie 6:16
3. "The Fossil Hunter"   Leslie 6:30
4. "The Journeyman's Grace"   Swarbrick, Thompson 4:34
5. "Wait for the Tide to Come In"   Ben Bennion 4:41
6. "The Wassail Song"   trad., arr. Fairport 3:27
7. "Morris Medley" (Laudnum Bunches/Orange in Blossom/Banks of the Dee) trad., arr. Leslie 2:31
8. "Close to You"   Leslie 4:07
9. "The Hiring Fair"   Ralph McTell 7:30
10. "Walk Awhile"   Swarbrick, Thompson 4:18
11. "John Gaudie"   Leslie 4:33
Total length:
 52:24

Personnel

special guests on "Wait for the Tide to Come In":

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog
United Kingdom 2008 Matty Grooves double CD MG2CD043

External links

Fairport Convention

Maartin Allcock · Dan Ar Braz · Bob Brady · Roger Burridge · Gerry Conway · Sandy Denny · Jerry Donahue · Judy Dyble · Tom Farnell · Roger Hill · Ashley Hutchings · Martin Lamble · Chris Leslie · Cathy Lesurf · Trevor Lucas · Dave Mattacks · Iain Matthews · Simon Nicol · Dave Pegg · David Rea · Bruce Rowland · Ric Sanders · Dave Swarbrick · Richard Thompson · Paul Warren
Studio albums

Fairport Convention (1968) · What We Did on Our Holidays (1969) · Unhalfbricking (1969) · Liege & Lief (1969) · Full House (1970) · Angel Delight (1971) · Babbacombe Lee (1971) · Rosie (1973)  · Nine (1973)  · Rising for the Moon (1975) · Gottle O'Geer (1976)  · The Bonny Bunch of Roses (1977) · Tipplers Tales (1978) · Gladys' Leap (1985) · Expletive Delighted! (1986) · In Real Time: Live '87 (1987) · Red & Gold (1988) · The Five Seasons (1990)  · Jewel in the Crown (1995) · Old New Borrowed Blue (1996)  · Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (1997)  · The Wood and the Wire (2000) · XXXV (2001) · Over the Next Hill (2004) · Sense of Occasion (2007) Festival Bell (2011)
Singles

"If I Had a Ribbon Bow" (1968) · "Meet on the Ledge" (1968) · "I'll Keep It with Mine" (1969) · "Si Tu Dois Partir" (1969) · "If (Stomp)" (1970) · "Now Be Thankful" (1970)
Live albums

Fairport Live Convention (1974) · Live at the L.A. Troubadour (1977) · Farewell Farewell (1979) · Moat on the Ledge - Live at Broughton Castle (1982) · House Full (1986) · Heyday (1987)  · 25th Anniversary Concert (1992) · Cropredy 98 (1999)  · The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood (2004) · Journeyman's Grace (2005) · Live at the BBC (2007) · Off the Desk (2008) Off the Desk (2008) Live at Cropredy 08 (2009)
Compilations

History of Fairport Convention (1972) · Tour Sampler (1975) · Fairport Chronicles (1976) · The Woodworm Years (1991) · A Chronicle of Sorts 1967 - 1969 · Meet On the Ledge: The Classic Years 1967-1975 · Some of Our Yesterdays · Fairport Convention · Then & Now 1982 - 1996: The Best of Fairport Convention · Rhythm of the Times (2003) Across the Decades (2003)
Box sets
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