That's a great anecdote concerning this concert - these are extraordinarily different tunes. Do you remember how the performance gelled with the audience? Was it powerful? Steve Ashley writes that he was extremely fond of the (seemingly rip-roaring) live performances of "Lord Bateman".

Fortunately, even three BBC tracks survived on official Guv'nor releases: "Four-Hand Reel", "Rambling Sailor" (with exhilarating dual lead vocals by Steve Ashley and Royston Wood) and a 6-minute Morris Medley (including Jockey To The Fair and Princess Royal). I believe that "Seventeen Come Sunday" wasn't taped, however.
"St Patrick's Breastplate" by Wood & Wood was indeed a fine successor the ACB-Mk.1 output.

The concerts by Mk2 are well-documented by 3 audience recordings. Stand-outs were an early electric rendition of "Somerset Wassail" (RT and Simon Nicol alternating on lead vox) and a mighty band version of the "Earsdon Sword Dance"("A Calling-On Song") featuring Simon Nicol, Shirley Collins and Linda Thompson alternating lead vox, making the whole thing sound close to the folk-inspired branch of modern doom metal.


I believe I've read somewhere that a nearly complete audience recording of this Canterbury concert exists. It would be splendid if it was released officially as a kind of "official bootleg" or made available via stream, but sadly I couldn't track down a copy til now.