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Ch​â​teau d'H​é​rouville

by Hatfield and The North

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1.
Intro O.R.T.F. 03:02
2.
God Song / Fol De Rol / Rifferama / A-Mewsing 19:06
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3.
Blane / Nan True's Hole / To Mum and the Gongs [Big Jobs] 05:47
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4.
Band Self Introductions 02:42
5.
Going Up To People and Tinkling / Lobster Extract / Landcrabs 06:49

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soundcloud.com/serge-esteve-463997144/hatfield-and-the-north-rockenstock-french-tv-1973-1974
rock-prog.over-blog.com/2014/11/hatfield-and-the-north-emission-de-tv-rock-en-stock-1973.html
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX6171_YNuQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F9gtblNeiY

Also bootlegged as "Live 1973":
richardsinclairsongs.bandcamp.com/album/live-1973
And as "Rockenstock TV Filmings":
www.discogs.com/release/14520215-Hatfield-And-The-North-Rockenstock-TV-Filmings
And as "Live and In The Studio 1973-1975":
www.discogs.com/release/11933417-Hatfield-And-The-North-Live-And-In-The-Studio-1973-1975
And track two here:
www.rockinconcerts.com/hatfield-and-the-north-cd-1973-01-02-paris-soundboard.html

Hatfield And The North – Live In Paris – January 2, 1973 – February 5, 1974 – ORTF – Gordon Skene Sound Collection –

A dose of Prog tonight by way of Canterbury Sound legends Hatfield And The North, September of 1973 and broadcast in February 1974.
www.dailymotion.com/video/x6embi

Hatfield And The North grew out of a line-up of ex-members of blues/jazz/rock band Delivery, Pip Pyle (drums, who had since played with Gong), Phil Miller (guitar, who had joined Matching Mole), and Phil’s brother Steve Miller (Wurlitzer electric piano, who had joined Caravan). Replacing Roy Babbington on bass was Richard Sinclair (who played with Steve Miller in Caravan). This line-up moved away from the blues idiom of the early Delivery towards pieces based on riffs in odd time signatures and protracted melodies associated with the Canterbury style.

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 (Hammond organ, also from Matching Mole and Caravan), the band soon changed their name to Hatfield and the North.

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 replaced by Dave Stewart (from Egg) before the band’s first recordings were made. That’s the show that’s on your player right now.

The band recorded two albums, Hatfield and the North (1974) and The Rotters’ Club (1975). 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”.
richardsinclairsongs.bandcamp.com/album/surrey-university-guildford

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 a succession of signs referred to the first major town, and the overall direction, as ‘A1 Hatfield & the North’.
richardsinclairsongs.bandcamp.com/album/an-a1-band

Caveats about tonight’s show – the first portion suffers from sound problems – the engineer was having a hard time getting a decent mix happening and there are flashes of feedback before it finally settles down. It doesn’t help that the mix is pretty awful. But when you’re doing it on the fly, sometimes miracles happen just as easily as complete screwups. By the second half, the sound problems are ironed out.

But with all that in mind, it really shouldn’t detract you from experiencing one of the pivotal bands during this crucial period in music evolution.
pastdaily.com/2020/08/24/hatfield-and-the-north-live-in-paris-1973-1974-past-daily-soundbooth/

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released September 18, 1973

Richard Sinclair - bass & vocal
Phil Miller - guitar
Dave Sinclair - organ, electric piano (track 2)
Dave Stewart - organ, electric piano (tracks 3-5)
Pip Pyle - drums & percussion
with:
Robert Wyatt - vocal (track 2)

Compère & Producteur délégué: Pierre Lattès
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Latt%C3%A8s


Tracks 1 & 2:
Recorded live January 2, 1973 at Studio de L'O.R.T.F. des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris and broadcast live (the same day) on "Rock en Stock" TV programme
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_de_Radiodiffusion_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision_Fran%C3%A7aise
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG2RJKhjGME

Tracks 3-5:
Recorded September 1973 at Le Château d'Hérouville, Paris for "Rock en Stock" TV programme (broadcast 5 Feb 1974)
www.lechateaudherouville.com
This was, incidentally, the same studio where Pink Floyd had recorded "Obscured By Clouds" a year earlier, and Jethro Tull's aborted "Chateau d'Isaster" tapes:
www.ministry-of-information.co.uk/app/chateau.htm
www.discogs.com/label/297393-Studio-H%C3%A9rouville

Published by SinclairSongs © 1973 All Rights Reserved

These are "recordings of indeterminate origin," i.e. bootlegs. If you buy it from me, it'll be the first time anyone in the band has seen a quid from it.

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Richard Sinclair Martina Franca, Italy

The leading voice of the Canterbury Scene. Beginning with the Wilde Flowers, on to Caravan, Hatfield & the North, Camel and all his recent group efforts, Richard Sinclair's singing and bass playing have been a constant source of delight for lovers of Canterbury music. A deep, low voice, a talent for memorable melodies few can match, plus an imaginative and fluid technique on the bass and guitar. ... more

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