Culture: Conventionally speaking with kings of folk rock; Fairport Convention's Dave Pegg tells Terry Grimley why this year's Cropredy Festival looks like being the last but the band is as active as ever.(Features)

From: The Birmingham Post (England) | Date: February 4, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Terry Grimley

Dave Pegg has been a member of folk-rock survivors Fairport Convention since 1969, but his connections with fellow Brummie Steve Gibbons, who shares the bill at Symphony Hall next week, go back even further.

Both were members of seminal Birmingham band The Uglys and, as Pegg explains, it was a chance intervention by Gibbons that led him to take up the bass guitar.

'I used to play lead guitar. I was with the Ian Campbell Folk ...

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