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Surrey University Guildford [Crisis Tour]

by Hatfield and The North

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Your Majesty Is Like A Cream Donut / The Yes No Interlude / Fitter Stoke Has A Bath / Calyx 20:05
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Let's Eat (Real Soon) 04:00
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Aigrette / Rifferama 08:20
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Lumps (incl. Blane) / Prenut / O What A Lonely Lifetime 30:22

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Another bootleg, but this one doesn't sound too bad. This was the second date of the Virgin/NME 'Crisis Tour' with the Kevin Coyne Band and the Lol Coxhill-Steve Miller duo.
www.rockinconcerts.com/hatfield-and-the-north-1974-11-09-cd-guildford-audience.html
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycudn56glys

In September 1974 the Virgin Crisis Tour which Hatfield and the North co-headlined with Kevin Coyne, the opening act was a duo of Steve Miller (Phil’s brother) and Lol Coxhill (from Phil’s first band Delivery). Here is a recording of this duo performance which I found in Phil’s collection of CDs. on the label is written: “Virgin Crisis Tour Sept 74 Steve + Lol = Genius”
philmillerthelegacy.com/music/steve-miller-lol-coxhill-74/

Draper isn’t sure whether it was Faust’s charismatic producer/spokesman Uwe Nettelbeck who came up with this marketing ruse, or Richard Branson himself. The latter had a fixation on the discount concept that ran through his whole career, from the mail-order company to Virgin Atlantic, which took as its model the low-fare approach pioneered by Laker Airways. The marketing ploy was also used in 1974 with Virgin’s Crisis Tour, a name that played on the feeling that Britain was on the verge of collapse, beset with strikes, inflation, shortages in shops, rising unemployment and dark whispers of national decline and a possible military coup to restore order. To cheer up young rock fans feeling the pinch, Virgin offered bargain-rate admission to a series of concerts around the country featuring acts like Henry Cow and Hatfield and the North – all you had to do was cut out the coupons in the NME [New Musical Express].
daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/10/simon-draper-virgin-records

NOVEMBER
Hatfield embark on the Virgin/NME 'Crisis Tour' with the Kevin Coyne Band (featuring Andy Summers, Archie Legget, Laurie Allan, Tim Penn and Gordon Smith) and the Lol Coxhill-Steve Miller duo
[08] London, Central Polytechnic (Virgin/NME Crisis Tour) [support: Kevin Coyne, Coxhill/Miller]
[09] Guildford, Surrey University (Virgin/NME Crisis Tour) [support: Kevin Coyne, Coxhill/Miller]
[11] Worthing, Pier Pavilion (Virgin/NME Crisis Tour) [support: Kevin Coyne, Coxhill/Miller] (postponed)
[12] Bradford, College Of Art (Virgin/NME Crisis Tour) [support: Kevin Coyne, Coxhill/Miller]
[15] Exeter, University - Devonshire House (Virgin/NME Crisis Tour) [support: Kevin Coyne, Coxhill/Miller]
[16] Coventry, Lanchester Polytechnic (Virgin/NME Crisis Tour) [support: Kevin Coyne, Coxhill/Miller]
[17] Croydon [nr London], Greyhound (Virgin/NME Crisis Tour) [support: Kevin Coyne, Coxhill/Miller] (cancelled)
[18] Bristol, University - Victoria Rooms (Virgin/NME Crisis Tour) [support: Kevin Coyne, Coxhill/Miller]
[19] Birmingham, Barbarella's (Virgin/NME Crisis Tour) [support: Kevin Coyne, Coxhill/Miller]
[21] London, BBC Maida Vale Studios (John Peel show) - "Do The Lethargy Shuffle (yea yea)" / Dave's Old Tune ["Strand On The Green"] / "Prenut" / "O What A Lonely Lifetime" / "(Big) John Wayne Socks Psychology On The Jaw", "Let's Eat (Real Soon)", "Fitter Stoke Has A Bath" / "Calyx" performed (broadcast Dec 5)
[22] Reading, University (Virgin/NME Crisis Tour) [support: Kevin Coyne, Coxhill/Miller]
[23] Manchester, University (Virgin/NME Crisis Tour) [support: Kevin Coyne, Coxhill/Miller]
[27] London, College of Printing (Virgin/NME Crisis Tour) [support: Kevin Coyne, Coxhill/Miller & Ivor Cutler] [guest: Lol Coxhill]
[28] Coventry, Warwick University (Virgin/NME Crisis Tour) [support: Kevin Coyne, Coxhill/Miller]
[29] Falmer [nr Brighton], Sussex University (Virgin/NME Crisis Tour) [support: Kevin Coyne, Coxhill/Miller]
[30] Southampton, University (Virgin/NME Crisis Tour) [support: Kevin Coyne, Coxhill/Miller]

DECEMBER
[05] Middlesborough, Teesside Polytechnic (Virgin/NME Crisis Tour) [support: Kevin Coyne, Coxhill/Miller] (cancelled)
[06] Liverpool, Polytechnic (Virgin/NME Crisis Tour) [support: Kevin Coyne, Coxhill/Miller]
[07] Durham, University (Virgin/NME Crisis Tour) [support: Kevin Coyne, Coxhill/Miller]
www.calyx-canterbury.fr/hatfield/chrono.html

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released November 9, 1974

Richard Sinclair - bass, vocals
Phil Miller - guitar
Dave Stewart - keyboards
Pip Pyle - drums

Recorded Saturday November 9th, 1974 inside the University of Surrey Performance Hall, Guildford, England

Published by SinclairSongs © 1974 All Rights Reserved

This is a "recording of indeterminate origin," i.e. a bootleg. 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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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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