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The Unfairground

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Released
  
September 2007

Artist
  
Kevin Ayers

Label
  
LO-MAX Records

Length
  
34:02

Release date
  
September 2007

Genre
  
Rock music

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Recorded
  
Wavelab Studios, Tucson, Arizona; Marlborough Farms, New York City; Eastcote Studios & Gallery Studios, London; YipJump Studios, Glasgow

Producer
  
Timothy Shepard, Peter Henderson and Gary Olson

Similar
  
Kevin Ayers albums, Rock music albums

Kevin ayers only heaven knows


The Unfairground is a 2007 album by Kevin Ayers, recorded with members of Ladybug Transistor, Teenage Fanclub, Neutral Milk Hotel, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and Roxy Music. It is his sixteenth studio LP and his first new set of recordings in fifteen years, as well as the last album released before his death in 2013. It was recorded in New York City, Tucson, Arizona, London and Glasgow. It debuted at #14 in the UK Indie Album chart.

Contents

The Unfairground deals with themes of love, loss and the passing of time and it has garnered strong critical endorsements for its author's brutally honest ruminations on his tumultuous life. Ayers stated in a 2007 Sunday Times interview that it is “very much a reflective album: lost love, lost feelings, lost sensibilities. I had to include some of my blood, sweat and tears – if you are going to be honest, it can’t be avoided.”

Track listing

All tracks written by Kevin Ayers.

Personnel

  • Kevin Ayers / guitar, vocals
  • Gary Olson / trumpet and producer
  • San Fadyl / drums
  • Jeff Baron / guitar
  • Norman Blake / guitar and backing vocals
  • Francis MacDonald / drums
  • Julian Koster / singing saw
  • Candie Payne / backing vocals
  • Euros Childs / backing vocals
  • Bill Wells / bass
  • Joe McGinty / keyboards
  • Phil Manzanera / guitar
  • Robbie McIntosh / guitar
  • Hugh Hopper / bass
  • Daisy Martey / backing vocals
  • Tucson Philharmonia / strings
  • Bridget St. John / vocals
  • Dave McGowan / pedal steel
  • Heather McIntosh / bass and cello
  • Kellie Sutherland / brass
  • Tara Shackell / brass
  • Isobel Knowles / brass
  • Gus Franklin / brass
  • Graham Henderson / accordion
  • Peter Nicholson / cello
  • Francis Reader / backing vocals
  • Peter Henderson / producer
  • Timothy Shepard / producer, artwork, executive producer
  • Bernard MacMahon / executive producer
  • The Wyattron
  • Songs

    1Only Heaven Knows2:47
    2Cold Shoulder3:08
    3Walk on Water3:14

    References

    The Unfairground Wikipedia