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    Posted: 03 Jun 2016 at 7:39pm
Sad to report that unlike in 1999 the obituary in tomorrow's Daily Telegraph this time will be factually correct.

Saw him perform many times, first of all in the early years of Fairport and latterly as part of Lazarus. In fact a performance in 2006 in a cold medieval theatre just after his return to performance following his transplant nearly proved the death of him!

A highly skilled fiddle player, he was always entertaining and had a huge knowledge of English folk music history. He will be sadly missed.   
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"Farewell, farewell to you, who would hear
You lonely travelers all
The cold north wind will blow again
The winding road does call"

Truly sad news.  I had always hoped to see him play live, now I'll never have the chance.  Goodbye Swarb, you will be missed.  Cry
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So sad to hear of 'Swarb's' death. I don't usually get too bothered by the death of performers, musicians etc but Dave Swarbrick and his music seems to have been a part of my life for so long, even when I didn't realise. From those formative teenage years in the late-60s when I was introduced to folk music by my sister's then- boyfriend, through to more recent times, I could always rely on his mesmeric fiddle playing to stir the soul.
 
He was a fabulous live performer too and I feel privilaged to have seen him a number of times. Now I shall go and play a couple of his records and contemplate that time is moving on for all of us.
 
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For me this is one of the saddest losses this year - Dave & the band were my neighbours in the village of Little Hadham for 18 months in my younger teens & I often used to see & hear them rehearsing & composing music when I was out in the garden. Our pet African Grey parrot took quite a dislike to Daves' violin playing & because of that we moved his cage as far to the back of the house as possible (parrot, not DS!)

They lived in our former local - 'The Angel' (until a lorry crashed into Daves' room one night & woke us up. The driver was killed but nobody in Fairport were injured). This pub was where my mother used to send me as a 7-8 year old boy to buy her fags & bottles of Mackeson for my dad. Life was so different In the 60s' wasn't it? They rehearsed in the pubs' old skittle alley.

I probably owe my love of music to this band - the albums Angel Delight & Full House were written there, I went to my first live gig (free for the Police Benevolent Fund) in the farmers field opposite another village pub and my Dad still has a broken guitar neck that I scavenged from the wrecked music room. That gig & the first Cropredy that I attended in '76 led on to Knebworth and a passion for live music has never left me.
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Originally posted by Drewan77 Drewan77 wrote:

For me this is one of the saddest losses this year - Dave & the band were my neighbours in the village of Little Hadham for 18 months in my younger teens & I often used to see & hear them rehearsing & composing music when I was out in the garden. Our pet African Grey parrot took quite a dislike to Daves' violin playing & because of that we moved his cage as far to the back of the house as possible (parrot, not DS!)

They lived in our former local - 'The Angel' (until a lorry crashed into Daves' room one night & woke us up. The driver was killed but nobody in Fairport were injured). This pub was where my mother used to send me as a 7-8 year old boy to buy her fags & bottles of Mackeson for my dad. Life was so different In the 60s' wasn't it? They rehearsed in the pubs' old skittle alley.

I probably owe my love of music to this band - the albums Angel Delight & Full House were written there, I went to my first live gig (free for the Police Benevolent Fund) in the farmers field opposite another village pub and my Dad still has a broken guitar neck that I scavenged from the wrecked music room. That gig & the first Cropredy that I attended in '76 led on to Knebworth and a passion for live music has never left me.
 
A fascinating reminiscence, Andrew. Cherished memories, I'm sure ... Beer
 
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Originally posted by Drewan77 Drewan77 wrote:

 Life was so different In the 60s' wasn't it? They rehearsed in the pubs' old skittle alley.

The music emanating from that skittle alley would certainly have been significantly better than the sounds I used to hear drifting out of The Fitzharry's Arms when I used to pop into their off-licence as a lad.

Always thought Swarb had a great sense of humour with a mischievous twist, was a great raconteur too especially at his solo gigs. The early obit in The Telegraph he would describe as 'greatly exaggerated,' he used to sell signed photocopies of it at his gigs until the newspaper put a stop to it due to copyright infringement.   
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Originally posted by McHolmeM McHolmeM wrote:

The Fitzharry's Arms  

Completely off topic, but...
I never crossed the threshold of the Fitzharry's, but there was no live music in Mr Warrick's Arms.

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