I love Of Queues and Cures and Rotter's Club (the main them of Mumps influenced a track on the new Sanguine Hum record and we used to play Big John Wayne live) but for me the first Hatfield and NH albums are all time top albums of...well, all time Magical stuff.
I remember hearing a version of Binoculars with Richard Sinclair on vocals on the radio. Did it ever appear anywhere officially??
Matt.
^ Yeah, that was fron a Peel session I think. Someone burned it on a CD for me, years ago but o haven't seen it for a while!
I just listened to the first Hatfield, and was again blown away not only by the composition, but the strong mood behind the music, throughout. Interesting, that my cd shows 'Homerton' (my very favorite track on the album) is shown as being written by Pip Pyle, but my original vinyl says Dave Stewart. Well I'm nearly positive it's a Dave Stewart composition, as it's ... well ... pure Stewart.
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Canterbury & prog interviews - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdf...IUPxUMA/videos
Who else used to look up Hatfield CD's and LP's in record stores even though you had the albums anyway and Juliana Hatfield always popped up?
If it isn't Krautrock, it's krap.
"And it's only the giving
That makes you what you are" - Ian Anderson
Calyx (Canterbury Scene) - http://www.calyx-canterbury.fr
Legends In Their Own Lunchtime (blog) - https://canterburyscene.wordpress.com/
My latest books : "Yes" (2017) - https://lemotetlereste.com/musiques/yes/ + "L'Ecole de Canterbury" (2016) - http://lemotetlereste.com/musiques/lecoledecanterbury/ + "King Crimson" (2012/updated 2018) - http://lemotetlereste.com/musiques/kingcrimson/
Canterbury & prog interviews - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdf...IUPxUMA/videos
Mid to late 1980's when I first discovered Peter Hammill, I would always vainly check shops for LPs by the thin man. But someone named "Peter Himmelman" would always be represented by a few discs. No idea who he is/was but every shop seemed to have something by him! The first several times it would fool me for a second or two. Wow! a Hammill disc! Sorry. Nope.
3 more MP4's of Hatfield from a NYC gig 2 days after Nearfest
https://videos.files.wordpress.com/U...-part-1_hd.mp4
https://videos.files.wordpress.com/U...-part-2_hd.mp4
https://videos.files.wordpress.com/U...-part-3_hd.mp4
Also here are MP4 of In Cahoots
https://videos.files.wordpress.com/y...le-man1_hd.mp4
https://videos.files.wordpress.com/x...barred1_hd.mp4
https://videos.files.wordpress.com/M...p-unda1_hd.mp4
https://videos.files.wordpress.com/F...-yours1_hd.mp4
https://videos.files.wordpress.com/h...hus-far_hd.mp4
Last edited by Wah3; 12-14-2018 at 06:03 PM.
My dream in the 70s was to see Hatfield and the North live..in concert. ....at a place like Hammersmith Odeon. With some unbelievably talented sound tech at the mixing board. And all 3 of the Northettes would be there..on the stage..with their angelic voices . Supposedly the Northettes never performed with the band live...just in the studio. I felt the element of sound they added to the band was totally one hundred percent vital to the band's musical characteristic. Their identity. I can't be dismissive of that realization just because there are no live concert recordings available.
Well, they RARELY did, but NOT never. There were 3 'big band' shows in April/May 1974 (including London's Roundhouse) of which recordings and photos survive. If I could travel back in time that would be #1 on the list of gigs I wish I could have attended.
I run the Hatfield Facebook group and if you subscribe, there's a video on there that I put together of part of "Homerton" set against photos of the Cambridge concert.
Calyx (Canterbury Scene) - http://www.calyx-canterbury.fr
Legends In Their Own Lunchtime (blog) - https://canterburyscene.wordpress.com/
My latest books : "Yes" (2017) - https://lemotetlereste.com/musiques/yes/ + "L'Ecole de Canterbury" (2016) - http://lemotetlereste.com/musiques/lecoledecanterbury/ + "King Crimson" (2012/updated 2018) - http://lemotetlereste.com/musiques/kingcrimson/
Canterbury & prog interviews - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdf...IUPxUMA/videos
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