Feerwerd by Hatfield and The North

Pip's last concert ☹️

"2005 saw Hatfield & The North reformed with Alex Maguire replacing Dave Stewart on keyboards. With this line up Hatfield departed on a world tour .
A year into this tour on February 8th 2006 Elton Dean died.
The Hatfield world tour continued playing Mexico, Italy, England, USA and Germany, finishing in Groningen, Holland on August 26th.
After the gig Pip and Phil spent the rest of the evening together. They made up their differences, rediscovered their friendship and told each other they loved each other.
When Phil arrived home in London, he told me how he and Pip had made it up between them and become friends again. It meant the world to Phil, that their old friendship had survived all the traumas.
The next morning Patrice Meyer phoned Phil to say that Pip had died in Paris."
- Herm Miller
https://philmillerthelegacy.com/the-rotters-club-continued/

Tracklist

1.	Rehearsal fragments	4:02

2.	Band introduction	0:56

3.	Big Jobs / Going Up To People and Tinkling / Calyx (part 1)	4:06

4.	Licks For The Ladies / Finesse Is For Fairies	7:11

5.	Seven Sisters	11:14

6.	Four Go Wilde [partial]	1:15

7.	banter	0:25

8.	Share It	3:44

9.	Calyx (part 2)	5:52

10.	Underdub	7:03

11.	God Song	4:23

12.	Lything and Gracing	4:52

13.	Halfway Between Heaven and Earth	9:02

14.	Gigantic Landcrabs in Earth Takeover Bid	4:08

15.	announcement	0:42

16.	Fitter Stoke Has A Bath / Didn't Matter Anyway	12:02

17.	Encore: Fol De Rol / Nan True's Hole	7:54

18.	Chatting with the audience	1:22

Credits

released August 26, 2006

Richard Sinclair - bass & vocals
Phil Miller - guitar
Alex Maguire - keyboards
Phillip 'Pip' Pyle (4/4/1950-8/28/2006) - drums

Recorded Saturday August 26, 2006 at the ZomerJazzFietsTour in De Schuur van Dick, Feerwerd (near Groningen), Netherlands
www.zjft-archief.nl/editie-info/zjft2006.php
Filmed by Herman Tulp with a Panasonic NV-GS500 camcorder and edited with Adobe Premiere.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=srXT1Q5Bd6A
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSIxY906KDE
www.theguardian.com/news/2006/sep/20/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries
www.rockinconcerts.com/hatfield-and-the-north-2006-08-26-dvd-groningen-audience.html

"7 Sisters" is by Pip, and of course you know the rest.

Published by SinclairSongs © 2006 All Rights Reserved

This is a "recording of indeterminate origin," i.e. a bootleg. If you buy it from me, it'll be the first time anyone in the band has seen a quid from it.

Thanks to Joerg (Propylaen2001) for providing the COMPLETE concert for the very first time!

This was recorded about 36 hours before Pip passed. He played possibly his best show of the tour. "After the concert everyone was in good spirits and Phil and Pip (who had known each other since the age of four) went out together and stayed out till 3am. It's a consolation to know that Pip's career eneded on a high, happy note in the company of lifelong friends...."
- Dave Stewart, In memorium Pip Pyle (included with download)
www.planetgong.co.uk/archives/mementos/pip-pyle.shtml
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pip_Pyle
www.theguardian.com/news/2006/sep/20/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxdIQwCVUu0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=arAu1VU5smY

Jakko Jakszyk's amusing story about Pip Pyle:
"Having fallen out with his other band members, not for the first time, Pip heads off to get drunk on his own. He finds a strange collection of really small bars in a nearby district of Tokyo. He starts in one and walks the down the small streets to the next. Eventually he sees one in the distance that has neon sign out side that says 'Pip's Bar'.

Obviously he makes a bee line for the place. He tells the proprietor that 'This is my bar'. The owner, no doubt no stranger to drunks, humours him, but remains wary. Pip continues to call it 'His bar' to the continuing annoyance of the landlord. Eventually Pip gets his passport out and says 'That's me, my name's Pip.'

To his astonishment the bar owner looks at the picture and asks 'You Pip Pyle? You Pip Pyle!' His face begins to light up.

Pip rather warily says 'Err yes.'

The owner, unable to believe what's happened says, with increasing excitement 'this is your bar; I name it after you' and proceeds to bring out various pieces of Hatfield and the North memorabilia…"
planetgong.co.uk/archives/mementos/pip-pyle.shtml

"Pip told me the exact same story. I think this was during the In Cahoots mini-tour in 1991 (his first time playing in Japan)." - Aymeric Leroy

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