Little Johnny England - 22 December 2001: Banbury, England

Artwork

Disc 1

  1. Räbjerg Mile
  2. Mutual Crumpet/The Battle Before Bedtime/Nail Down The Rooster
  3. Forty Years On
  4. The Way Things Ought To Be (Scrowther) *
  5. Swine/UHT
  6. More Hills To Climb (Slade) †
  7. Whisper Of The Moon *
  8. Jenny *
  9. Widdecombe Fair (Knightley)
  10. The Moon At My Window (Scrowther)
  11. The Witherstone (Scrowther)

Disc 2

  1. My Heart's Where My Home Used To Be
  2. Jake's Jig/Goldrush/Hayeswood
  3. Smeaton's Pier ‡
  4. Looking For A Vision ‡
  5. Standing In The Shadows ‡
  6. We Three Kings (Hopkins) *
  7. Hello Young Lovers (Rodgers/Hammerstein)
  8. Maybe/The Joist/Rocky Road
  9. Early To Bed
  10. Le Boeuf Anglais
  1. Six Days On The Road (Green/Montgomery)
*
w/ Pete Scrowther
†
w/ Emily Slade on lead vocals
‡
w/ Tom Hall and Guy Fletcher

Recorded live at The Mill in Banbury, England on December 22, 2001.

There's a good review of this live Christmas show at Shogem Music. It's obviously quite a special occasion, acting as an unofficial CD release party for Mercs And Cherokees and augmented by a host of guests.

It's a soundboard recording, as so often emerges from Banbury Mill, and highly recommended to any fan of the band. That said, I can't help but feel that descriptions of Little Johnny England as the saviours of folk/rock are slightly overstating their importance - it's good stuff, and with more energy than the current Fairport lineup manage to muster, but they're not doing anything that the OysterBand haven't done better...