Genre: Progressive rock
Places I remember: Chaldon Records and Books (Caterham on the hill)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Mockingbird (glorious version clocking in at over 7 minutes)
Gear costume: Child Of The Universe
Active compensatory factors: Barclay James Harvest's prog rock tag is a strange one and I guess comes from the association with the Harvest label and their prog band roster (Pink Floyd most notably).
The band members write great songs that don't fit into pop or rock categories - mainly thanks to the quietly distinctive vocals of John Lees and Les Holroyd (and before he left the band in 1979, Stuart "Woolly" Wolstenholme).
This live album collects some of those great songs and with the help of some studio overdubs (the original live recording in Berlin had technical hitches) presents the band as they are in concert.
It's all about the songs and the playing - no one would ever accuse the band members of being rebel rousing front men!
Where do they all belong? Recorded in 1980 and released 1982, this one slots into their mid career adjustment following the departure of Woolly.
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