Patience (Peter Hammill album)

1983 studio album by Peter Hammill

Patience

Studio album by Peter Hammill

Released

19 August 1983

Recorded

December 1982

Studio

Crescent Studios, Bath

Genre

Art rock

Length

40:28

Label

Naive

Producer

Peter Hammill

Peter Hammill chronology

Loops and Reels
(1983)

Patience
(1983)

The Love Songs
(1984)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic

Patience is the 13th studio album by Peter Hammill. It was released in August 1983 on Naive Records, a label founded by Gordian Troeller, the former manager of Hammill's band Van der Graaf Generator. It was remastered in 1991 and released on Fie! Records. It was the second album to feature the collective known as the “K Group” (the first was Enter K) — Hammill, drummer Guy Evans and bassist Nic Potter (Hammill's former colleagues in VdGG), and guitarist John Ellis (of The Vibrators and Peter Gabriel’s band).

Patience reached #15 in the UK Indie Chart.

The members of K Group adopted aliases during their time in the band. Hammill was known as "K", Evans was known as "Brain", Ellis was known as "Fury" and Potter was known as "Mozart".

"Patient", "Traintime" and "Comfortable" have all been played regularly by Hammill in live performance in later years.

"Just Good Friends" was re-worked for Hammill's 1984 album The Love Songs.

Track listing

All songs written by Peter Hammill.

"Labour of Love" – 5:52
"Film Noir" – 4:16
"Just Good Friends" – 4:26
"Jeunesse d'Orée" – 4:45
"Traintime" – 4:25
"Now More Than Ever" – 5:36
"Comfortable?" – 4:54
"Patient" – 6:14

Personnel

Peter Hammill – vocals, piano, acoustic and electric guitar
Guy Evans – drums, percussion
Nic Potter – bass
John Ellis – guitar

Additional musicians

David Jackson – saxophone and panpipes on 1 and 7
Stuart Gordon – violin on 3
David Lord – Prophet 5 on 3

Technical

David Lord – recording engineer, mixing (Crescent Studios, Bath)

References

"Music Week" (PDF). p. 31.
Allmusic review
Lazell, Barry (1997) Indie Hits 1980-1989, Cherry Red Books, ISBN 0-9517206-9-4

External links

Lyrics on Hammill's Sofa Sound website

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Studio albums	Fool's Mate (1971) Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night (1973) The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage (1974) In Camera (1974) Nadir's Big Chance (1975) Over (1977) The Future Now (1978) pH7 (1979) A Black Box (1980) Sitting Targets (1981) Enter K (1982) Loops and Reels (1983) Patience (1983) Skin (1986) And Close As This (1986) Spur of the Moment (1988) In a Foreign Town (1988) Out of Water (1990) The Fall of the House of Usher (1991) Fireships (1992) The Noise (1993) Roaring Forties (1994) X My Heart (1996) Sonix - Hybrid Experiments 1994-1996 (1996) Everyone You Hold (1997) This (1998) The Appointed Hour (1999) None of the Above (2000) What, Now? (2001) Unsung (2001) Clutch (2002) Incoherence (2004) Singularity (2006) Thin Air (2009) Consequences (2012) Other World (2014) ...All That Might Have Been... (2014) From the Trees (2017) In Translation (2021)
Live albums	The Margin (1985) Room Temperature (1990) There Goes the Daylight (1993) The Peel Sessions (1995) The Union Chapel Concert (1997) Typical (1999) The Margin + (2002) Veracious (2006) Pno Gtr Vox (2011) Pno Gtr Vox Box (2012) Peter Hammill & The K Group Live at Rockpalast 26/11/81 (2016) X/Ten (2018) Not Yet Not Now (2019)
Singles	"Red Shift" (1973) "Birthday Special" (1975) "Crying Wolf" (1977) "If I Could" (1978) "The Polaroid" (1979) "My Experience" (1981) "Paradox Drive" (1982) "Film Noir" (1983) "Just Good Friends" (1985) "Painting by Numbers" (1986) A Fix on the Mix (1992) ‎(CD, EP)
Live videos	In the Passionskirche (1992) Live at Rockpalast - Hamburg 1981 (2016)
Compilation albums	Vision (1978) The Love Songs (1984) The Essential Collection (1986) The Storm (Before the Calm) (1993) The Calm (After the Storm) (1993) Offensichtlich Goldfisch (1993) After the Show - A Collection (1996) Past Go: Collected (1996) The Thin Man Sings Ballads (2002)
Collaborators	Judge Smith David Jackson Guy Evans John Ellis Nic Potter Roger Eno Stuart Gordon

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