Surprise Supplies

Surprise Supplies
Live album by Caravan
Released	1999
Recorded	4 May 1976
Venue	New Victoria Theatre, London
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

In 1976, Caravan played concerts to support the release of their latest album Blind Dog at St. Dunstans (1976). 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. Dunstans plus "Love in Your Eye" from the 1972 album Waterloo Lily.

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: BBC Sessions 1975-77.

Track listing

1. "Here Am I" (Pye Hastings) – 6:15
2. "Chiefs and Indians" (Mike Wedgwood) – 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, Richard Sinclair)

Personnel

Caravan

• Pye Hastings – vocals, guitar
• Geoffrey Richardson – viola
• Jan Schelhaas – keyboards
• Mike Wedgwood – vocals, bass guitar
• Richard Coughlan – drums

Additional personnel

• Jimmy Hastings – clarinet, flute, saxophone

Releases information

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

External links

• Planer, Lindsay. "AllMusic: Surprise Supplies". Retrieved 15 July 2007.
• "Calyx, the Canterbury website". Retrieved 15 July 2007.
• Caravan - Surprise Supplies album releases & credits at Discogs.com