Hatfield and the North
『Hattitude』
Archive recordings 1973-1975, Volume 2
CD: Hatfield and the North
HATCO-CD73-7502 (2006)
1. 'Grosso Lavor' (Sinclair)
2. 'Drowning in the Bathroom' (Pyle)
3. 'K Licks' (long) (Miller)
4. 'The Crest' (Miller)
5. 'Pink & Green Machine' (Sinclair)
6. 'Further Dances' (Miller)
7. 'La Barbe extract' (Pyle)
8. Confiture de la Barbe (Hatfield)
9. 'Born Again Crustacean' (Stewart)
10. 'Elevenses' (Sinclair)
11. Farce Majeure (Hatfield)
12. 'Spaces Not Notes' (Sinclair)
13. 'Song for All Our Mums' (Sinclair)
14. Extract (Gowen)
15. 'The Men's One-Metre Dash' (Stewart)
16. 'K Licks' (short) (Miller)
17. 'One of Wilde's' (Stewart)
18. Blane Over The Low Countries (Stewart)
19. 'Drowning reprise' (Pyle)
20. 'Goodbye For Now' (Sinclair)
Bonus track:
21. Al Clark Presents (Stewart / Clark)
Extracts from radio sessions
Tr. 10: Sounds Of The '70s (January 22nd 1973), Trs. 4-5, 16-17: Top Gear (March 19th 1974), Trs. 2-3: John Peel Show (November 21st 1974).
Live tapes
Tr. 6: Paradiso, Amsterdam (April 6th 1973), Tr. 7-8: Lantaren, Rotterdam (June 4th 1974), Tr. 9: Part 1 - Lyon (February 8th 1975) and Toulouse (February 11th 1975), Part 2 - Salle des Fetes, Orleans (June 14th 1974), Tr. 12-13: Gemeentehuis, Epe (June 6th 1974), Tr. 14: Lantaren, Rotterdam (June 4th 1974) and Paard van Troje, The Hague (June 8th 1974), Tr. 15: Melkweg, Amsterdam (June 9th 1974), Tr. 18: Part 1 - Ostend (December 17th 1974), Part 2 - Lantaren, Rotterdam (June 4th 1974), Tr. 19-20: London (March 1975), Tr. 21: Unknown UK gig (circa 1975).
Live gigs recorded by Mike Ruijsbroek (Holland), Pete Wade and Nick Levitt (France / Belgium).
Live / Studio collage
Tr. 11: Announcement from French radio broadcast (June 1974), other sources from various live tapes. Assembled by Pip Pyle.
Studio track
Tr. 1: Demo prior to recording first album (August 1973).
All tracks performed by Phil Miller (guitar), Pip Pyle (drums / percussion / sheep noise), Richard Sinclair (bass / vocals) and Dave Stewart (keyboards / tone generators).
Front cover photos by Laurie Lewis
Booklet interior photos by Gérard Nguyen
Radio photo by John Warburton
Hatfield station sign photo by Barbara Gaskin
Booklet text compiled and edited by Dave Stewart
Text layout by Karen Gladdwell
Artwork by Mixed Images Ltd.
Initial track selection and editing by Pip Pyle
Further edits and intro SFX by Dave Stewart
Digital editing and CD mastering by Phil Chapman, A Major Music Company, London.
Digital transfer at Floating Earth, London.
「Formed in the summer of 1972 and named after a motorway road sign, Hatfield and the North gigged extensively in the UK and Europe and recorded two albums (*Hatfield and the North* and *The Rotters' Club*) before breaking up in 1975. The band also recorded four sessions for BBC Radio 1 and appeared on French TV. This album is a collection of hitherto unreleased material performed exclusively by the classic '70s Hatfield line-up.」
◆本CDブックレットより◆
「Dave Stewart: In the '60s there was a fashion to give girl groups cheesy names like The Marvelettes, The Ronettes (etc.), so we jokingly referred to our three female guest vocalists as The Northettes. A lot of our fan mail was about them. They added an extra human dimension to our music and helped give it its character.
Barbara Gaskin: By an odd coincidence I was born and grew up in Hatfield. In 1973 I was living in Canterbury and was busy working with 'psychedelic folk' group Spirogyra when Dave Stewart invited me to sing on the first Hatfield album along with Amanda Parsons and Ann Rosenthal. The three of us never actually sang together in the studio, but leaned and recorded our parts separately. ( . . . ) The astonishing and hugely rewarding thing was to sing the parts over the backing tracks in the studio and then hear them all played back together. It created a beautiful, often breathtaking and I think genuinely original effect.」
◆本CDについて◆
ハットフィールド＆ザ・ノース未発表音源集その2（その1は『Hatwise Choice』）。
デジパック仕様。ブックレット（全20頁）にPip Pyleによる「About This CD」、メンバー（Phil Miller、Pip Pyle、Richard Sinclair、Dave Stewart、Barbara Gaskin）およびオランダ・ツアーを手配したHenk Weltevredenの証言による「Hatfield and the North - A Year In The Life (1973)」、トラックリスト＆クレジット、モノクロ図版7点。
本CDには『Hatwise Choice』未収録のBBC音源と、その後デイヴ・スチュワートの自宅から発見された40時間分のライヴ・テープからピップ・パイルが選択・編集したものが収録されています。
本CD収録曲は、タイトルからは分かりにくいですが、#1、13は「Big Jobs」（1st収録曲）、#2は「Fitter Stoke Has a Bath」（2nd収録曲）、#19も同曲（後半部のみ）、＃3、16は「Calyx」（1st）、#4は「Aigrette」（同）、#5は「Rifferama」（同）、#6は「Part of the Dance」（マッチング・モウル）、#7、8は「Shaving Is Boring」（1st）、#9は「Lobster in Cleavage Probe」（1st）、#12は「Bossa Nochance」（1st）、#15は「Going Up to People and Tinkling」（1st）、#20は「Didn't Matter Anyway」（2nd）、#11はフリー・インプロヴィゼーション、#18はキーボード・インプロヴィゼーション、#21はバンド紹介＆BGM。
★★★★☆
Elevenses
