Has anyone seen the Fairytales 5CD box set in real life? The few places I can find it on the web all say it's OOP or unavailable. Was it ever made?

Hi Bard, Nice design. I don't think this exists - yet! I'm pretty dilligent about upcoming comps and stuff an i've never even heard of this set. Presumably it is comprised of the 5 x CDs from the Psychic Circle CD series that were subtitled as FTCCT. It may well get issued or it may have been a box set idea that never got acted on. You know what these Particles titles are like!

Paul

Thanks Paul, you're probably right. It has been quite a while since I saw the design for the first time, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's been cancelled altogether.

Echoes of the'Tin Angel'comp I think.

Paul

It's real -

https://www.lpcdreissues.com/item/fairytales-can-come-true-uk-popsike-from-the-late-60s

https://www.amazon.com/Fairytales-Can-Come-True-Remastered/dp/B00EHMFRTQ

http://www.popmatters.com/review/various-artists-fairytales-can-come-true-uk-popsike-from-the-late-60s/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/fairytales-can-come-true-uk/id686968323

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Fairytales-Can-Come-True/release/1342317

https://play.spotify.com/user/jackiepaper/playlist/55sKxypcsYnDHHRlnEQIt0?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open

http://therockasteria.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/various-artists-fairytales-can-come.html


etc etc etc

Steve.

Oh yeah. It is just the 1 cd. my mistake.



Not the same. That's only the first volume in the 5 part series. I am talking about the set pictured above that collects all 5 volumes in one box[/quote]

the volumes are for sale on amazon I've just bought one for £3 +postage they vary in price but most volumes are under a tenner

heres some info from Plain & Fancy
How many forgotten and “uncomped” European pop-psych gems from the late ‘60s can there still be? Judging by this excellent compilation from Nick Soloman’s (the one-man neo-psych band known as the Bevis Frond) imprint label Psychic Circle, the answer is: a lot.

Following close on the heels of last year’s critically lauded Volume One in the “Fairytales” series, Fairy Cakes For Tea: Fairytales Can Come True delivers another 20 addictive morsels (mostly British) of melodic, and at times seriously danceable, “popsike” confectionary for your delectation without opening the door too wide to the wondrous world of whimsical “toytown” psychedelia. - (Which, let’s face it, is a acquired taste.) - But if you do take up the Youth’s invitation on the mellow “Meadow of My Mind” to “Come wading with me / In the babbling brook of my mind”, taken from the unknown crackle-and-hiss acetate version of a Deram-released obscurity, you won’ regret it.

Further listening will unwrap candy-coated nuggets ranging from the Starlites’ poptastic “Good Morning Mr. Milkman” to the Hammond organ swinger “Look Out Girl”, a P.F. Sloan cover done by one Lloyd Banks or the almost Elizabethan madrigal of Scott Henderson’s “Saturday Night People” and a scintillating, beefed-up version of the much-covered classic “Spooky” by unknowns Sasperella. The real icing on this particular fairy cake, however, is provided by folk-rock duo Peter and Gordon wigging out on the groovy “I Feel Like Going Out”. The rest of the album pleasantly floats, skips and meanders through a cotton-candy universe without a dud tune. A rare treat indeed.
by Alan Brown

The idea of this compilation is to present obscure British recordings from the late '60s that had a definite psychedelic feel, but also had a lot of harmony pop influence at work as well. Often this led to a particularly precious branch of psychedelia dubbed (long after the fact) by some collectors as "toytown" music, in part because of a preoccupation with British character sketches, childhood nostalgia, and fantasy that was largely absent from American psychedelic rock.

There's some of that here, but fortunately this largely steers clear of excessively precious and twee material, though some of it does have the good-time bounce that leaked down to so many bands from the circa-1967 Beatles and Kinks. None of these were hits or anything close to it, of course, but some general '60s collectors might actually recognize some of the musicians, particularly the Searchers (represented by a fairly respectable, and seldom anthologized, late-'60s 45, "Umbrella Man");

Jackie Lomax, as leader of the Lomax Alliance; Los Bravos, of "Black Is Black" fame (here heard covering the Easybeats' song "Bring a Little Lovin'"); Ian Matthews, heard on the Pyramid's breezy "Summer of Last Year," recorded shortly before he joined Fairport Convention; and Hedgehoppers Anonymous and the Roulettes, both of whom had a little U.K. success on record in the '60s.

What's most impressive about this compilation, however, is that there's a fair amount of variety in the selections, encompassing an obscure Troggs cover (Barry Benson's "Cousin Jane"), almost raw folk-rock (Hedgehoppers Anonymous' "Daytime"), sub-Walker Brothers balladeering (the Virgil Brothers' "Look Away"), and nearly baroque moodiness with influence from both classical music and Beach Boys harmonies (Fred Lloyd's "Kissed Him," Dreams' "A Boy Needs a Girl," and Dave Christie's "Penelope Breedlove"). If you want more singsongy sugary stuff, that's here, too, but not so much so that listening to the CD gets to be an overly sickly sweet experience. It's definitely an anthology for deep U.K. psych specialists, but likely one of the better ones in this subgenre to ever be compiled.
by Richie Unterberger