Sunday_Night_at_London_Roundhouse
Sunday Night at London Roundhouse
1974 live album by Nektar
Sunday Night at the London Roundhouse was the first live album by the English progressive rock band Nektar. It was released on vinyl in 1974 by Bacillus Records, and re-released with partially different content on CD in 2002.
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| Released | May 1974 | |||
| Recorded | 25 November 1973 (Side one) 27 March 1974 (Side two) | |||
| Venue | London Roundhouse (Side one) Chipping Norton Studios (Side two) | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock | |||
| Length | 36:55 | |||
| Label | Bacillus | |||
| Producer | Peter Hauke | |||
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The 1974 vinyl release included, on side 1, two songs recorded at a concert given by the band at the Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London on 25 November 1973: "Desolation Valley" and "A Day in the Life of a Preacher". Side 2 was recorded at a live-in-studio jam on March 27, 1974, between the hours of 2:00 am and 5:00 am, at Chipping Norton Studios in Oxfordshire, England. An expanded recording of the jam session was later released as a separate CD under the title Unidentified Flying Abstract - Live at Chipping Norton 1974.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Original album | Length |
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| 1. | "Desolation Valley[notes 1]" | A Tab in the Ocean | 9:50 |
| 2. | "A Day in the Life of a Preacher (featuring the birth of Oh Willie)" | ...Sounds Like This | 11:30 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 3. | "Oop's (Unidentified Flying Abstract)" | 6:37 |
| 4. | "Mundetango" | 6:25 |
| 5. | "Summer Breeze" | 2:40 |
The 2002 release on CD featured the complete Roundhouse concert, recorded by Pye Records Mobile Studio and engineered by Vic Maile. All the tracks were mixed from the original 16-track master tapes by Paschal Byrne, Roye Albrighton, and Mark Powell at the Audio Archiving Company, London in March 2002. The Chipping Norton Studios 1974 material (side two) was removed, but included on Unidentified Flying Abstract, also released in 2002.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Original album | Length |
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| 1. | "Crying in the Dark/King of Twilight" | A Tab in the Ocean | 12:10 |
| 2. | "Desolation Valley/Waves" | A Tab in the Ocean | 8:58 |
| 3. | "A Day in the Life of a Preacher (inc. The Birth of Oh Willy)" | ...Sounds Like This | 19:50 |
| 4. | "Summer Breeze" | 3:04 | |
| 5. | "Cast Your Fate" | ...Sounds Like This | 5:42 |
| No. | Title | Original album | Length |
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| 1. | "Remember the Future, Part 1" | Remember the Future | 18:47 |
| 2. | "Odyssee (Ron's On)" | ...Sounds Like This | 11:15 |
| 3. | "1-2-3-4" | ...Sounds Like This | 12:31 |
| 4. | "Remember the Future, Part 2 (Let it Grow)" | Remember the Future | 5:14 |
| 5. | "What Ya Gonna Do?" | ...Sounds Like This | 6:09 |
Includes the three songs from the original side two, but removed from the 2002 reissue, plus three addition songs recorded during the jam on March 27, 1974.
- Roye Albrighton - guitar, vocals
- Alan "Taff" Freeman - synthesizer, keyboards, vocals
- Derek "Mo" Moore - bass, vocals
- Ron Howden - percussion, drums, vocals, Smurds
- Mick Brockett - lights
- The Nektar Discography Archived 14 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine