Hatfield and the North (album)

Hatfield and the North is the first album by the English Canterbury scene rock band Hatfield and the North, released in February 1974.

In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album came #34 in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums".

Album cover
The cover of the original vinyl release was designed by Laurie Lewis. The front and back outer cover is a panoramic photograph of Reykjavík, with the sky on the right merged with a transparency of a 15th-16th century fresco in Orvieto Cathedral by Luca Signorelli, "The Damned". The inside gatefold is a collage that includes photographs of the personnel and guests involved in the music, the cast of the TV show Bonanza, together with a cropped photograph by Jacques Henri Lartigue of a man throwing a dog.

Track listing
The 1987 CD re-release of the album added two bonus tracks, the A- and B-sides of a 1974 single, previously available on the 1980 compilation Afters:


 * 1) "Let's Eat (Real Soon)" (Sinclair, Pyle) – 3:16
 * 2) "Fitter Stoke Has a Bath" (Pyle) – 4:35

The 2009 Esoteric Recordings reissue (ECLEC2139) also included the above, along with a further bonus track:

Taken from the Virgin Records Sampler (VD 2502) from January 1975.
 * 1) "Your Majesty Is Like a Cream Donut Incorporating Oh What a Lonely Lifetime" – 6:08

Personnel

 * Hatfield and the North
 * Phil Miller – electric guitar (2–14), acoustic guitars (6)
 * Dave Stewart – Fender Rhodes electric piano (1–8, 10–15), Hammond organ (3–5, 7–9, 12–14), Hohner Pianet (1, 5, 7, 9, 13–15), piano (2–5, 8, 9), tone generator (5, 7–9, 12), Minimoog (9)
 * Richard Sinclair – bass guitar (2–14), vocals (2, 4, 6, 8, 10–12)
 * Pip Pyle – drums (2–9, 11–14), percussion (64, 7, 9, sound effects (7–9, 11)
 * Guest musicians
 * Robert Wyatt – vocals (4, 12)
 * Barbara Gaskin – vocals (5, 13)
 * Amanda Parsons – vocals (5, 13)
 * Ann Rosenthal – vocals (5, 13)
 * Geoff Leigh – tenor saxophone (5), flute (5, 13)
 * Didier Malherbe – tenor saxophone (7) (uncredited)
 * Jeremy Baines – pixiephone (5), flute (13)
 * Sam Ellidge – voice (7)
 * Cyrille Ayers – vocals (8)