Afters (album)

Afters
Compilation album by Hatfield and the North
Released	1980
Recorded	1973-1975
Genre	Progressive rock (Canterbury scene)
Length	47:03
Label	Virgin
Producer	Hatfield and the North
Hatfield and the North chronology
The Rotters' Club (1975) Afters (1980) Live 1990 (1993)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Afters is a 1980 compilation album (LP only) released by Canterbury scene band Hatfield and the North. Of the sixteen tracks, eleven are taken from the band's two studio albums Hatfield and the North and The Rotters' Club, three are live recordings, and the two remaining songs are those from their 1974 single "Let's Eat (Real Soon) / Fitter Stoke Has a Bath".^[2]

Track listing

Tracks 1 and 2 were released as the A- and B-sides respectively of a 1974 single released on Virgin Records. Tracks 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 15 and 16 are songs from The Rotters' Club, tracks 6 to 9 inclusive are from Hatfield and the North, and tracks 12 to 14 inclusive are edited recordings of live performances in France, mixed by Peter Wade.^[3]

1. "Let's Eat (Real Soon)" – 3:14
2. "Fitter Stoke Has a Bath" – 4:33
3. "Mumps [edited]" – 8:14
4. "Share It" – 3:02
5. "Lounging There Trying" – 3:15
6. "The Stubbs Effect" – 0:23
7. "Big Jobs (Poo Poo Extract)" – 0:45
8. "Going Up to People and Tinkling" – 2:17
9. "Calyx" – 2:46
10. "(Big) John Wayne Socks Psychology on the Jaw" – 0:43
11. "Chaos at the Greasy Spoon" – 0:23
12. "Halfway Between Heaven and Earth" – 6:08
13. "Oh, Len's Nature! [aka Nan True's Hole]" – 2:00
14. "Lything and Gracing" – 3:48
15. "Prenut" – 3:55
16. "Your Majesty Is Like a Cream Donut (Loud)" – 1:37

Personnel

• Phil Miller – guitar
• Pip Pyle – drums, noise
• Richard Sinclair – bass, vocals
• Dave Stewart – keyboards

Additional musicians

• Mont Campbell – French horn (10-11)
• Lindsay Cooper – oboe, bassoon (10)
• Barbara Gaskin – backing vocals (2-3-15-16)
• Jimmy Hastings – flutes (2-15) saxes (16)
• Tim Hodgkinson – clarinet (10)
• Amanda Parsons – backing vocals (2-3-15-16)
• Ann Rosenthal – backing vocals (2-3-15-16)
• Robert Wyatt – voice (9)

References

1. Allmusic review
2. "Track listings and scans of Hatfield and the North records". Retrieved December 3, 2006.
3. "Afters". Retrieved December 3, 2006.