Sunday Night at London Roundhouse

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Sunday Night at the London Roundhouse
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Live album by
ReleasedMay 1974
Recorded25 November 1973 (Side one)
27 March 1974 (Side two)
Venue London Roundhouse (Side one)
Chipping Norton Studios (Side two)
Genre Progressive rock
Length36:55
Label Bacillus
Producer Peter Hauke
Nektar chronology
Remember the Future
(1973)
Sunday Night at the London Roundhouse
(1974)
Down to Earth
(1974)

Sunday Night at the London Roundhouse was the first live album by the English progressive rock band Nektar. It was released on vinyl in 1974 by Bacillus Records, and re-released with partially different content on CD in 2002.

Contents

The album was recorded in November 1973 at a disused railroad building that had become a gin warehouse. [1]

Original release

The 1974 vinyl release included only two songs recorded at the concert given by the band at the Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, on 25 November 1973: "Desolation Valley" and "A Day in the Life of a Preacher", which included rough edits. [1]

Side 2 was recorded at a live-in-studio jam on March 27, 1974, between the hours of 2:00 am and 5:00 am, at Chipping Norton Studios in Oxfordshire, England. An expanded recording of the jam session was later released as a separate CD under the title Unidentified Flying Abstract - Live at Chipping Norton 1974.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleOriginal albumLength
1."Desolation Valley [notes 1] " A Tab in the Ocean 9:50
2."A Day in the Life of a Preacher (featuring the birth of Oh Willie)" ...Sounds Like This 11:30
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Side two
No.TitleLength
3."Oop's (Unidentified Flying Abstract)"6:37
4."Mundetango"6:25
5."Summer Breeze"2:40

2002 re-release

The 2002 release on CD featured the complete Roundhouse concert, [1] recorded by Pye Records Mobile Studio and engineered by Vic Maile. All the tracks were mixed from the original 16-track master tapes by Paschal Byrne, Roye Albrighton, and Mark Powell at the Audio Archiving Company, London in March 2002. The Chipping Norton Studios 1974 material (side two) was removed, but included on Unidentified Flying Abstract, also released in 2002.

Track listing

Disc one
No.TitleOriginal albumLength
1."Crying in the Dark/King of Twilight" A Tab in the Ocean 12:10
2."Desolation Valley/Waves"A Tab in the Ocean8:58
3."A Day in the Life of a Preacher (inc. The Birth of Oh Willy)" ...Sounds Like This 19:50
4."Summer Breeze" 3:04
5."Cast Your Fate"...Sounds Like This5:42
Disc two
No.TitleOriginal albumLength
1."Remember the Future, Part 1" Remember the Future 18:47
2."Odyssee (Ron's On)"...Sounds Like This11:15
3."1-2-3-4"...Sounds Like This12:31
4."Remember the Future, Part 2 (Let it Grow)"Remember the Future5:14
5."What Ya Gonna Do?"...Sounds Like This6:09

2002 release Unidentified Flying Abstract

Includes the three songs from the original side two, but removed from the 2002 reissue, plus three addition songs recorded during the jam on March 27, 1974.

Live at Chipping Norton 1974
No.TitleLength
1."Desolation Valley [notes 1] "9:06
2."Oop's - Unidentified Flying Abstract [notes 2] "6:02
3."Mundetango [notes 2] "6:38
4."One Mile Red / The Ticket"9:51
5."We Must Have Been Smashed"6:31
6."Summer Breeze [notes 2] "2:48

Personnel

Notes

  1. 1 2 Although not listed, also includes "Waves"
  2. 1 2 3 Originally released on side two of Sunday Night at London Roundhouse

References

  1. 1 2 3 Greene, Jo-Anne (29 April 2005). "A Broad Abroad: Nektar - Honey of the Prog Gods". Goldmine. Vol. 31, no. 9. ProQuest   1501702 . Retrieved 9 November 2024.