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Hatfield and the North were an experimental Canterbury scene rock band that lasted from October 1972 to June 1975, with some reunions thereafter.
Career
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.)
Hatfield and the North is the first album by experimental Canterbury scene rock band Hatfield and the North.
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".
Track listing
A-side
B-side
A later CD rerelease of the album added two bonus tracks, also available on the compilation Afters:
Podcasts:
Hatfield and the North
ALBUMS
- Hattitude released: 2006
- Hatwise Choice: Archive Recordings 1973-1975, Volume 1 released: 2005
- Live in Nottingham released: 2003
- Live 1990 released: 1991
- The Rotters' Club released: 1975
- Hatfield and the North released:
Hattitude
Released 2006- Grosso Lavoro
- Drowning in the Bathroom
- K Licks (long)
- The Crest
- Pink & Green Machine
- Further Dances
- Le Barbe extract
- Confiture de la Barbe
- Born Again Crustacean
- Elevenses
- Farce Majeure
- Spaces Not Notes
- Song for All Our Mums
- Extract
- The Men's One-Metre Dash
- K Licks (short)
- One of Wilde's
- Blane Over The Low Countries
- Drowning reprise
- Goodbye For Now
- Al Clark Presents (bonus track)
Hatwise Choice: Archive Recordings 1973-1975, Volume 1
Released 2005- Absolutely Wholesome
- La Barbe est la Barbe
- Sober Song
- Hatitude
- Strand of the Green
- Hotel Luna
- The Lonely Bubbling Song
- Stay Jung and Beautiful
- Dave Intro
- Take Your Pick
- Son of Plate Smashing Dog
- Thanks Mont!
- Amsterdamage 11/19
- May the Farce Be With You
- Finesse Is for Fairies
- Ethanol Nurse
- Writhing and Grimacing
- For Robert
- Blane Over Paris
- Laundry Soup
- Effing Mad Aincha
- Top Gear Commercial
- K Licks
Hatfield and the North
- The Stubbs Effect
- Big Jobs (Poo Poo Extract)
- Going Up to People and Tinkling
- Calyx
- Son of "There's No Place Like Homerton"
- Aigrette
- Rifferama
- Fol De Rol
- Shaving Is Boring
- Licks for the Ladies
- Bossa Nochance
- Big Jobs No. 2 (By Poo Poo and the Wee Wees)
- Lobster in Cleavage Probe
- Gigantic Land Crabs in Earth Takeover Bid
- The Other Stubbs Effect
- Let's Eat (Real Soon)
- Fitter Stoke Has a Bath
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by Hatfield & The North
Hatfield and the North
by: Hatfield & The NorthAnd in the end, all our troubles vanish, melt away
(Play - like a gold bell in the evening wind)
And in the end, all the time we've spent we'll save...
(And in the end, after all is said and done)
Time is only dust, when it's done
We will fly... like a teatray in the sky
So don't be scared of a lobster or molluscs
(I for one am fond of molluscs)
They're all one in the end
(They're all lovely)
There will be no parting of the ways
(Counting off the days that we've wasted)
Starting off with lots of singing
Playing laughing crying flying sighing wheeling soaring
aah...