Editing Fairport Convention (section)

===Origins===
Bassist [[Ashley Hutchings]] met guitarist [[Simon Nicol]] in North London in 1966 when they both played in the Ethnic Shuffle Orchestra. They rehearsed on the floor above Nicol's father's medical practice in a house called "Fairport" in Muswell Hill – on the same street where Ray and Dave Davies of [[the Kinks]] grew up.<ref name = RC>{{cite magazine |last=Thompson |first=Dave |magazine=[[Record Collector]] |issue=52 |title=Fairport Convention |date=December 1983 |pages=28–32}}</ref> The house lent its name to the group they formed together as Fairport Convention in 1967 with [[Richard Thompson (musician)|Richard Thompson]] on guitar and Shaun Frater on drums.<ref>B. Hinton, and G. Wall, ''Ashley Hutchings: The Guv'nor & the Rise of Folk Rock,'' (London: Helter Skelter, 2002){{page needed|date=January 2013}}</ref> After their initial performance at St Michael's Church Hall in [[Golders Green]] on 27 May 1967, they had their first of many line-up changes as one member of the audience, drummer [[Martin Lamble]], convinced the band that he could do a better job than Frater and replaced him.{{sfn|Humphries|1997|pp=6–7}} They soon added a female singer, [[Judy Dyble]], which gave them a distinctive sound among the many London bands of the period.<ref name=":2">Humphries, pp. 7–9.</ref>