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| Released | December 1981 | |||
| Recorded | October–November 1981 | |||
| Studio | Woodcray Manor Farm Studios, Berkshire | |||
| Genre | Neo-progressive rock | |||
| Length | 41:29 | |||
| Label | Twelfth Night | |||
| Producer | Twelfth Night | |||
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Smiling at Grief is a studio album released by UK neo-progressive band Twelfth Night in 1981.
Smiling at Grief comprised Twelfth Night's first recording with vocalist Geoff Mann. The album was recorded at Woodcray Manor Farm Studios, Berkshire.
The success of the Live at the Target LP had led to a publishing deal with Neptune Music. With their backing, the band decided to demo several new songs that were written with Geoff. The band were experimenting with shorter songs, consisting of one or a few ideas, instead of compositions of strings of ideas. The recordings were done in two batches at Woodcray Manor Farm Studios. In the time between those two, Rick Battersby decided to leave the band. For the remaining sessions, Clive Mitten doubled on keyboards.
After the recordings, the band realised they had an album's worth of music, so Smiling At Grief was released (as a cassette only, advertised at gigs and through the fan club).
Three of the songs, "East of Eden", "This City" and "The Creepshow" were re-recorded in 1982 for Fact and Fiction .
All songs written by Twelfth Night except "Eleanor Rigby" by Lennon-McCartney.
Smiling at Grief was the first of the ongoing Twelfth Night reissue / archive programme, released on CD in 1997 on MSI Records with five bonus tracks recorded prior to the main sessions at the band's rehearsal venue, Burghfield Mill, Reading. This CD is now out-of-print.
Smiling at Grief is the first of the Twelfth Night "definitive releases" by Festival Music to be released in March 2009
Disc One – Smiling at Grief'
Tracks 1-9 are the original Smiling at Grief cassette album, recorded at Woodcray Manor Farm Studios, Berkshire, October–November 1981.
Tracks 10-14 were bonus tracks first released on the 1997 MSI CD reissue. These were recorded at Burghfield Mill, Reading, in September 1981.
Previously unreleased. Recorded at Woodcray Manor Farm Studios, Berkshire, November 1981.
Previously unreleased. Recorded in Geoff's cellar, 59 Duchy St., Salford, September 1981.
Disc Two – SAG-LIVE'
Tracks 1-11 recorded at The Target, Reading, 10 December 1981.
Previously unreleased. Recorded at Burghfield Mill, Reading, September 1981.
The album was remixed from the original master tapes in 2021-2022 and re-issued in three formats in March 2022. The vinyl album contain the following tracks:
Side 1
Side 2
The CD versions adds another seven tracks.
The downloads adds a further six alternative mixes
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