Afters (album)



Afters is a 1980 compilation album (LP only) released by Canterbury scene band Hatfield and the North. Of the sixteen tracks, eleven are taken from the band's two studio albums Hatfield and the North and The Rotters' Club, three are live recordings, and the two remaining songs are those from their 1974 single "Let's Eat (Real Soon) / Fitter Stoke Has a Bath".

Track listing
Tracks 1 and 2 were released as the A- and B-sides respectively of a 1974 single released on Virgin Records. Tracks 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 15 and 16 are songs from The Rotters' Club, tracks 6 to 9 inclusive are from Hatfield and the North, and tracks 12 to 14 inclusive are edited recordings of live performances in France, mixed by Peter Wade.


 * 1) "Let's Eat (Real Soon)" – 3:14
 * 2) "Fitter Stoke Has a Bath" – 4:33
 * 3) "Mumps [edited]" – 8:14
 * 4) "Share It" – 3:02
 * 5) "Lounging There Trying" – 3:15
 * 6) "The Stubbs Effect" – 0:23
 * 7) "Big Jobs (Poo Poo Extract)" – 0:45
 * 8) "Going Up to People and Tinkling" – 2:17
 * 9) "Calyx" – 2:46
 * 10) "(Big) John Wayne Socks Psychology on the Jaw" – 0:43
 * 11) "Chaos at the Greasy Spoon" – 0:23
 * 12) "Halfway Between Heaven and Earth" – 6:08
 * 13) "Oh, Len's Nature! [aka Nan True's Hole]" – 2:00
 * 14) "Lything and Gracing" – 3:48
 * 15) "Prenut" – 3:55
 * 16) "Your Majesty Is Like a Cream Donut (Loud)" – 1:37

Personnel

 * Phil Miller – guitar
 * Pip Pyle – drums, noise
 * Richard Sinclair – bass, vocals
 * Dave Stewart – keyboards

Additional musicians

 * Mont Campbell – French horn (10-11)
 * Lindsay Cooper – oboe, bassoon (10)
 * Barbara Gaskin – backing vocals (2-3-15-16)
 * Jimmy Hastings – flutes (2-15) saxes (16)
 * Tim Hodgkinson – clarinet (10)
 * Amanda Parsons – backing vocals (2-3-15-16)
 * Ann Rosenthal – backing vocals (2-3-15-16)
 * Robert Wyatt – voice (9)