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Surprise Supplies

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Released
  
1999

Artist
  
Caravan

Label
  
HTD Records

Length
  
55:18

Release date
  
1999

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Recorded
  
4 May 1976 live at the New Victoria Theatre, London

Surprise Supplies(1999)
  
All Over You...Too(2000)

Genres
  
Progressive rock, Canterbury scene

Similar
  
Caravan albums, Canterbury scene albums

In 1976, Caravan played concerts to support the release of their latest album Blind Dog at St. Dunstans (1976). A recording of the show at the New Victoria Theatre in London on 4 May 1976 was released as Surprise Supplies featuring songs from Blind Dog at St. Dunstans plus "Love in Your Eye" from the 1972 album Waterloo Lily.

Contents

Recordings from a show recorded on 5 May (broadcast 17 May) for John Peel's BBC radio show appear on the 1998 album Ether Way: BBC Sessions 1975-77.

Track listing

  1. "Here Am I" (Pye Hastings) – 6:15
  2. "Chiefs and Indians" (Mike Wedgewood) – 5:22
  3. "Can You Hear Me?" (Hastings) – 6:26
  4. "All the Way" (Hastings) – 7:17
  5. "A Very Smelly, Grubby Little Oik / Bobbing Wide / Come on Back / Oik (reprise)" (Hastings) – 13:01
  6. "Love in Your Eye" – 16:57 (Richard Coughlan, Hastings, Dave Sinclair)

Personnel

  • Pye Hastings – vocals, guitar
  • Geoffrey Richardson – viola
  • Jan Schelhaas – keyboards
  • Mike Wedgwood – vocals, bass guitar
  • Richard Coughlan – drums
    • Additional personnel
  • Jimmy Hastings – clarinet, flute, saxophone

    • Releases information

  • 1999: CD HTD 96
  • 2000: CD Import 70096
  • 2002: CD Talking Elephant 039

    • Songs

    1Here Am I6:16
    2Chiefs and Indians5:23
    3Can You Hear Me6:27

    References

    Surprise Supplies Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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