Label: Esoteric Records (UK), ECLEC2139
Style: Jazz Rock, Canterbury Scene
Country: Canterbury, England
Time: 60:17
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 345 Mb
The
band grew out of a line-up of friends in mid-1972 consisting of Phil
Miller (guitar, from Matching Mole), Phil's brother Steve Miller
(keyboards, from Caravan, Pip Pyle (drums, from Gong) and Richard
Sinclair (bass and vocals, from Caravan).
The band played a few live
shows between July and September that year, and gained their first
record contract with Virgin Records with the 'Sinclair cousins'...as
Steve Miller was replaced by Dave Sinclair (from Matching Mole and
Caravan), the band soon changed their name to Hatfield and the North.
The
Delivery line-up reunited for a BBC session in November 1972 with Steve
Miller, Phil Miller, Lol Coxhill, Roy Babbington (bass), Pip Pyle, and
Richard Sinclair on vocals. (Steve Miller went on to release a couple of
duo albums with Coxhill in 1973/74.)
Dave Sinclair left in January
1973, shortly after the band's appearance (with Robert Wyatt on guest
vocals) on the French TV programme "Rockenstock", and was quickly
replaced by Dave Stewart (from Egg) before the band's first recordings
were made.
The band recorded two albums, Hatfield and the North and
The Rotters' Club. Backing vocals on the two albums were sung by The
Northettes: Amanda Parsons, Barbara Gaskin and Ann Rosenthal. On the
Autumn 1974 "Crisis Tour", which Hatfield co-headlined with Kevin Coyne,
the opening act was a duo of Steve Miller and Lol Coxhill (also
previously of Delivery) and Coxhill usually guested with Hatfield on the
jamming sections of "Mumps".
After disbanding, Dave Stewart formed
National Health with Alan Gowen from Gilgamesh; Phil Miller was a member
throughout the band's existence, and Pyle joined in 1977. (Richard
Sinclair also sat in on a couple of gigs and a BBC radio session that
year.) Hatfield and the North and Gilgamesh had played a couple of shows
together in late 1973, including a joint "double quartet" set, in some
ways the prototype for National Health. Miller, Stewart, Pyle and
Sinclair also worked together in various combinations on other projects.
The
name of the band was inspired by the road signage on the main A1 road
heading north from London, where the a succession of signs referred to
the first major town, and the overall direction, as 'A1 Hatfield &
the North'. This style of sign from the 1970s has now been replaced by a
slightly different variant, as shown in the current picture to the
right.
(jaz.fandom.com/wiki/Hatfield_and_the_North)
01. The Stubbs Effect (00:22)
02. Big Jobs (Poo Poo Extract) (00:36)
03. Going Up to People and Tinkl (02:25)
04. Calyx (02:45)
05. Son of 'There's No Place Lik (10:10)
06. Aigrette (01:38)
07. Rifferama (02:56)
08. Fol De Rol (03:07)
09. Shaving Is Boring (08:46)
10. Licks for the Ladies (02:37)
11. Bossa Nochance (00:40)
12. Big Jobs No. 2 (by Poo and t (02:14)
13. Lobster in Cleavage Probe (03:57)
14. Gigantic Land Crabs in Earth (03:21)
15. The Other Stubbs Effect (00:38)
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