The Dylan Project at Cropredy - Reuters

Before we tell you what we thought of Fairport's Cropredy Convention, here's what someone else thought of the Dylans' set at the festival.

"When a band of veteran British rock musicians took to the stage with a different take on Bob Dylan's music at the weekend, they were so good someone in the crowd even shouted "Judas." The reference to the infamous moment when Dylan turned electric was tongue-in-cheek. The musicians concerned make no pretensions about being acoustic folkies."

Read the rest of the review at the Reuters web site.

From Austria

I’m hoping that some of my more adventurous colleagues in this Dylanic enterprise will share their experiences of the road to and from Steve Gibbons’ seventieth birthday celebrations near Thalgau: two of our number, Phil & Peggy, chose to travel separately overland by camper van, bringing their womenfolk and making even more of a holiday of the proceedings.

Steve & I flew out from Birmingham Airport, stopping at Frankfurt – in SG’s case stopping a little too late to catch his rather optimistic (half-hour turnaround) connection. So we queued for an hour or so for reticketing and reached Salzburg later than expected, missing dinner and sent to bed with dry bread, soup and a half-gallon stein of weissbier. (The dry bread bit is a lie).

Due to weather (UK having steamed under clear skies for days on end due to storms and constant rain having been diverted to Austria), the gig was not at the open-air “Lake Stage” but in a very posh school hall. As you would expect, the PA and all the equipment we used was teutonically top-notch, as were audience, support band and eventually, us!

Thank you Bernhard for looking after us so well and Happy Birthday Steve!

P.S. Cropredy write-up follows soon.