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".

Track listing

A-side
  1. "The Stubbs Effect" – 0:22
  2. "Big Jobs " – 0:36
  3. "Going Up To People and Tinkling" – 2:25
  4. "Calyx" – 2:45
  5. "Son of 'There's No Place Like Homerton'" – 10:10
  6. "Aigrette" – 1:37
  7. "Rifferama" – 2:56
B-side
  1. "Fol de Rol" – 3:07
  2. "Shaving Is Boring" – 8:45
  3. "Licks for the Ladies" – 2:37
  4. "Bossa Nochance" – 0:40
  5. "Big Jobs No. 2 " – 2:14
  6. "Lobster in Cleavage Probe" – 3:57
  7. "Gigantic Land Crabs in Earth Takeover Bid" – 3:21
  8. "The Other Stubbs Effect" – 0:38
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 " – 3:16
  2. "Fitter Stoke Has a Bath" – 4:35
The 2009 Esoteric Recordings reissue also included the above, along with a further bonus track:
  1. "Your Majesty Is Like a Cream Donut Incorporating Oh What a Lonely Lifetime" – 6:08
Taken from the Virgin Records Sampler from January 1975.

Personnel

The cover of the original vinyl release was designed by Laurie Lewis, photographer. 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, :File:Luca Signorelli 001.jpg|"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.