Unreleased recordings sourced from first generation copy of BBC master tape
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The band grew out of a line-up of Delivery in mid-1972 consisting of Phil Miller (guitar, from Matching Mole), Steve Miller (keyboards; Phil's brother), 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, but with Steve Miller being replaced by Dave Sinclair (from Matching Mole and Caravan), the band soon changed its 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. [1]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 joined National Health with Alan Gowen from Gilgamesh; 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. Wikipedia
Although excerpts have surfaced on the recently released archive compilations 'Hatwise Choice' and 'Hattitude', the sessions are yet to enjoy commercial release in unabridged form. Although bootleg versions of these sessions have surfaced, they are mostly of very poor audio quality. These release quality recordings were transferred to CD directly from a first generation copy of the original master tape belonging to a member of the band.
Track Listing
Sounds of the Seventies: 22nd January 1973
1. Rifferama
2. Licks For The Ladies
3. Finesse Is For Fairies
4. Nan True's Hole
5. Lything And Gracing
Top Gear: 19th March 1974
6. Shaving Is Boring
7. Licks For The Ladies
8. Your Majesty Is Like A Cream Donut
9. Aigrette
10. Rifferama
11. Top Gear Trailer
The John Peel Show: 21st November 1974
12. Fitter Stoke Has A Bath
13. Calyx
14. Let's Eat (Real Soon)
15. Do The Lethargy Shuffle / Your Majesty Is Like A Cream Donut / Oh What A Lonely Lifetime
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Link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/hxeeiuyi53p5jsm/HandNSessions1973-1974.rar/file
