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50 Years of Fylde Guitars

A celebration: 50 years of Roger Bucknall making the finest guitars and mandolin family of instruments. Featuring: Eric Bibb; Clive Carroll; Troy Donockley; Martin Carthy; Gordon Giltrap; Remi Harris; Richard Hawley; Megan Henwood; David Holmes; Peter Howarth; Seth Lakeman; Jule Malischke; Will McNicol; David Mead; Ken Nicol; Adam Palma; Martin Simpson; John Smith; Pete Townshend; Ben Walker and Chris While. THE TEAM at FYLDE GUITARS; Alex Reay; Paul Ferrie; Moira Bucknall and of course Roger Bucknall MBE.

Narrated by Trisan Seume and a cameo appearance by Stefan Sobell.

Six months work ( 50 years work! ) Condensed into 80 minutes. It’s finally finished and I’m so impressed with the result. Well done Sam. It is a little emotional here and there, so many memories, old friends, new friends. Some lovely things said, wonderful music played. I’ll say it again. Fifty Years. Whatever next? Thank you to everybody; players, customers, friends, family. Much the same thing to me really.

A FILM BY SAM ENGLISH.

Will McNicol

Mike and Sam English, good friends as they are, suggested this video idea, and here we are. I'm so pleased with the result, but more so with the efforts that people put in, just to be there and help out. Some things were impossible, and I do worry that I might have left out something important. We did try.

Roger and Gordon in the Workshop on the first day of the film shoot.

I started by testing the water with some key people. Gordon of course is crucial to the story. Pete Townshend was very quick to send his own contribution. I wrote a little list, then a bigger list, then, you've guessed it, a still bigger list . Everyone said yes. Where there are gaps, it's only because of failures in logistics.

Richard Hawley

Sam filmed at various "professional" locations, there were some people they simply couldn't get to, but those were usually able to supply their own contributions. The technical quality of all the recordings had to match. Sam is very critical over such things and I'm very impressed.

Martin Simpson

At one point, the choice of locations and the logistics were becoming a problem. A few were shot at the workshop, which involved everybody stopping work and keeping quiet, plus all the tools, wood, and guitar parts were rather distracting .

We needed somewhere else.

My pub! It's not actually "mine", I'm just a shareholder in a cooperative, but I love the sound of "My Pub”.

John Smith with Helen and Simon - the landlords!

It wasn't all that funny!

The licencees, Helen and Simon, were amazing helpful, they host music nights, sessions, and weekends so it all suited them.

They opened the pub specially and kept everybody else out, even provided food and beer free of charge on every occasion. Everybody has a LOVELY time. There are certain risks in combining stimulants and recording, but there are benefits as well. Just check the history of Fleetwood Mac. Maybe this video could be called Rumours of Fylde Guitars? It's rather more than rumours though.

It is now reality.

Jule Malischke

Remi Harris

David Mead

I do hope you enjoy it, and you get a better idea of what we've been doing all this time.

Here's to the next fifty years.

Roger

Adam Palma and Peter Howarth

Roger with Martin Simpson and Stefan Sobell in the woodstore

A big thank you to all who took part! Eric Bibb; Clive Carroll; Troy Donockley; Martin Carthy; Gordon Giltrap; Remi Harris; Richard Hawley; Megan Henwood; David Holmes; Peter Howarth; Seth Lakeman; Jule Malischke; Will McNicol; David Mead; Ken Nicol; Adam Palma; Martin Simpson; John Smith; Pete Townshend; Ben Walker and Chris While. THE TEAM at FYLDE GUITARS; Alex Reay; Paul Ferrie and of course Moira Bucknall. The whole thing was narrated by my good friend Tristan Seume and Stefan Sobell makes a cameo appearance.