Twelfth Night XII

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Twelfth Night (aka The Virgin Album)
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Studio album by
Twelfth Night
ReleasedJune 1986
Recorded1985-1986
Genre Neo-progressive
Length45:26
74:59 (CD reissue)
Label Virgin Records
Producer Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night chronology
Art and Illusion
(1984)		Twelfth Night (aka The Virgin Album)
(1986)		 Collector's Item
(1991)
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Twelfth Night is a studio album released by UK neo-progressive band Twelfth Night in 1986. Although officially untitled, it is known informally as both XII and The Virgin Album. The number "XII" was printed vertically on the album cover with the words "Twelfth Night" inserted horizontally between the two "I's". Some discographies quote the album's title as X, apparently misinterpreting the "I's" as simply horizontal lines framing the band's name.

Twelfth Night (band) band

Twelfth Night are an English neo-progressive rock band of the 1980s, reformed between 2007 and 2012 and again in 2014. The BBC has described them as Reading's biggest band of the 1980s.

Contents

Details

The long-awaited first full-length album with Andy Sears on vocals and after the band had signed a major contract at last, was released without a title, something the band weren't very happy with.

Disappointed with the lack of major-label support, both Andy Sears and Clive Mitten had left the band by the beginning of 1987.

This album was not released on CD for almost twenty years due to an apparent contractual dispute, although one track from the album appeared on the original version of the Collector's Item CD, and another was added on the reissue. The band indicated that if they were unable to reacquire the original recordings they might re-form in order to re-record the entire album for CD. In the event, the Virgin-EMI catalogue team invited Andy Revell, Andy Sears and Brian Devoil to meet with Peter Mew for a re-mastering session at Abbey Road Studios, and it was finally issued on CD in July 2005.

Collector's Item is a compilation album released by UK neo-progressive band Twelfth Night in 1991 as a CD and double album, and re-released on CD only with some different tracks in 2001.

Peter Mew is a retired British music audio engineer. He worked at Abbey Road Studios, where he was the senior mastering engineer. He came to Abbey Road in 1965 as a tape operator and has since worked with many artists at the studio. Kevin Ayers of Soft Machine has called Mew "the best engineer I've ever worked with".

Abbey Road Studios recording studio in London, England

Abbey Road Studios is a recording studio at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London, England. It was established in November 1931 by the Gramophone Company, a predecessor of British music company EMI, which owned it until Universal Music took control of part of EMI in 2013.

Track listing

All songs written by Twelfth Night.

  1. "Last Song" - 4.27
  2. "Pressure" - 3.39
  3. "Jungle" - 4.16
  4. "The Craft" - 4.36
  5. "Blue Powder Monkey" - 5.07
  6. "Theatre" - 3.48
  7. "Shame" - 4.13
  8. "This Is War" - 3.45
  9. "Take a Look" - 11.35

2005 CD reissue

As above, plus:

  1. "Blondon Fair" - 6.03
  2. "Shame (full Mix)" - 5.50
  3. "Take a Look (part 4)" - 4.19
  4. "Blue Powder Monkey" (early mix) - 4.46
  5. "This Is War" (early mix) - 3.48
  6. "The Craft" (early mix) - 4.47

Personnel

Brian Ronald Devoil is a British drummer who was a founding member of the band Twelfth Night.

Clive Mitten is a British musician and a member of the band Twelfth Night, both between November 1978 and December 1986 and again between June 2007 and December 2012, with a one-off reunion in 2014.

Andy Revell British musician

Andy "Rev" Revell is a British businessman, scientist and musician. He was founding member of the band Twelfth Night in 1978.

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References

  1. ↑ Oliver, Derek (7 August 1986). "Twelfth Night 'Twelfth Night'". Kerrang!. 126. London, UK: United Magazines ltd. p. 21.
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