Hatfield and the North
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 1974
RecordedOctober 1973 – January 1974
GenreProgressive rock, Canterbury scene
Length46:10
LabelVirgin
ProducerHatfield and the North
Tom Newman
Hatfield and the North chronology
Hatfield and the North
(1974)
The Rotters' Club
(1975)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Hatfield and the North is the first album by the English Canterbury scene rock band Hatfield and the North, released in February 1974.

In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album came #34 in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums".[2]

Album cover

The cover of the original vinyl release was designed by Laurie Lewis. The front and back outer cover is a panoramic photograph of Reykjavík, with the sky on the right merged with a transparency of a 15th-16th century fresco in Orvieto Cathedral by Luca Signorelli, "The Damned". The inside gatefold is a collage that includes photographs of the personnel and guests involved in the music, the cast of the TV show Bonanza, together with a cropped photograph by Jacques Henri Lartigue of a man throwing a dog.[3]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."The Stubbs Effect"Pip Pyle0:22
2."Big Jobs (Poo Poo Extract)"Richard Sinclair, Pyle0:36
3."Going Up To People and Tinkling"Dave Stewart2:25
4."Calyx"Phil Miller2:45
5."Son of 'There's No Place Like Homerton'"Stewart10:10
6."Aigrette"Miller2:25
7."Rifferama"Sinclair; arr. Hatfield and the North2:56
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
8."Fol de Rol"Sinclair, Robert Wyatt3:07
9."Shaving Is Boring"Pyle8:45
10."Licks for the Ladies"Sinclair, Pyle2:37
11."Bossa Nochance"Sinclair0:40
12."Big Jobs No. 2 (By Poo and the Wee Wees)"Sinclair, Pyle2:14
13."Lobster in Cleavage Probe"Stewart3:57
14."Gigantic Land Crabs in Earth Takeover Bid"Stewart3:21
15."The Other Stubbs Effect"Pyle0:38

The 1987 CD re-release of the album added two bonus tracks, the A- and B-sides of a 1974 single, previously available on the 1980 compilation Afters:

  1. "Let's Eat (Real Soon)" (Sinclair, Pyle) – 3:16
  2. "Fitter Stoke Has a Bath" (Pyle) – 4:35

The 2009 Esoteric Recordings reissue (ECLEC2139) also included the above, along with a further bonus track:

  1. "Your Majesty Is Like a Cream Donut Incorporating Oh What a Lonely Lifetime" – 6:08

Taken from the Virgin Records Sampler (VD 2502) from January 1975.

Personnel

Hatfield and the North
Guest musicians

References

  1. AllMusic review by Dave Thompson
  2. Q Classic: Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, 2005.
  3. calyx2016. "A closer look at the first Hatfield and the North album's cover". canterburyscene.wordpress.com. Retrieved 25 September 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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