Richard Thompson review – rock’n’rolling back the years

Gawsworth Hall, Cheshire
Half a century after his first gig with Fairport Convention, folk-rocker Richard Thompson is as cool and contemporary as everThere are fitting environments for rock’n’roll gigs, and then there’s this genteel country house setting at the height of the summer season. Cheshire’s Gawsworth Hall, built in 1480, is an Alice in Wonderland fever-dream of black and white timber dotted with clubs, its garden stage resembling a marquee on a particularly posh