Hold You Back at Union Chapel

Its essentially a late day Francis solo band rendition of a classic jiggy FF Quo song.

He has always loved jigs and reels and and this is simply his/their take with an Irish Pub type slant to it several decades later. On that basis/in that context there should be no shock or surprises really that in his late 60's, he should be enjoying doing this. Irrespective of whether one likes or loathes this footage - and the fact that Rick isn't there.

My own philosophy is that Quo (as a collective period covering both the golden original era and also the post 86 era) ended in their truest sense at the finish of the reunion gigs. Everything that CQ have done since, with or without Rick has been a retirement wind down finale. I think that Bula Quo (and the film) coinciding with the reunion period accentuated the massive contrasts between the old Quo and the new - and amplified the anger of many long standing hard-core fans who see Quo, to their very last, as the archetypal heavy boogie machine institution of British rock.

It just wasn't to be the FF boogie finale to replicate the early 70's, irrespective of whether or not Francis or any other inter band/management decision was behind this.

Its a case of accept it and move on.

I wonder how many hard core Led Zeppelin fans were in angst when Robert Plant got together with Alison Krauss? Apart from a few selected great songs, I am not a LZ fan at all, but I suppose the argument then was that it was tolerable to partner a female (with her violin) for a music project because the music wasn't happy clappy and had some serious creative musicality to it.

Quo, with their cheeky chappy knees-up style simply don't get away with girls and their back up vocals, violins and accordions in the eyes of many of their own hardest core fans.