Surprise Supplies

Surprise Supplies
Live album by Caravan
Released	1999
Genre	Progressive rock (Canterbury scene)
Length	55:18
Label	HTD
Caravan chronology
Live: Canterbury Comes to London (1999) Surprise Supplies (1999) All Over You...Too (2000)

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Allmusic	[1]

In 1976, Caravan played concerts to support the release of their latest album Blind Dog at St. Dunstan’s, a recording of the show at the New Victoria Theatre in London on 4 May 1976 was released as 'Surprise Supplies' featuring songs from 'Blind Dog at St. Dunstan’s' plus Love In Your Eye

Recordings from a show recorded on 5 May (broadcast 17 May) for John Peel's BBC radio show appear on the 1998 album Ether Way.

Track listing

1. "Here Am I" (Pye Hastings) – 6:15
2. "Chiefs and Indians" (Mike Wedgewood) – 5:22
3. "Can You Hear Me?" (Hastings) – 6:26
4. "All the Way" (Hastings) – 7:17
5. "A Very Smelly, Grubby Little Oik / Bobbing Wide / Come on Back / Oik (reprise)" (Hastings) – 13:01
6. "Love in Your Eye" – 16:57 (Richard Coughlan, Hastings, Dave Sinclair)

Personnel

• Pye Hastings – singer, vocals, guitar
• Richard Coughlan – drum kit, drums
• Jan Schelhaas – keyboard instrument, keyboards
• Mike Wedgwood – vocals, bass guitar
• Geoffrey Richardson – viola

Releases information

• 1999 CD HTD 96
• 2000 CD Import 70096
• 2002 CD Talking Elephant 039

References

1. Planer, Lindsay. "Surprise Supplies - Caravan | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 23 June 2011.

External links

• Planer, Lindsay. "Allmusic: Surprise Supplies". Retrieved 2007-07-15.

• "Calyx, the Canterbury website". Retrieved 2007-07-15.