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Peter Hammill 7cd Live Box Set


Peter Hammill – Pno Gtr Vox Box – Eighty Four Live Performances

The double CD Pno, Gtr, Vox, released in September 2011, drew on live
performances from concerts in Japan and the UK in 2010 and showed PH
at the peak of his unique powers, pushing and stretching both himself
and the material in extraordinary ways. As with the Tokyo shows, one
set was of piano songs only, the other of guitar only.

Pno, Gtr, Vox, Box is a limited edition 7 cd deluxe box set with a 24
page booklet (containing sleeve notes from PH), which greatly expands
on the original double cd (both discs of which are included).

Five additional discs make up the set.

Of the five additional discs, one is a set of VdGG/VdG songs and one a
set imagining ‘What if I knew this was the last show I’d ever do?’,
the others comprise ‘Songs I didn’t play in Japan’, ‘Songs I dropped
from the setlists’ and ‘The best alternate versions’.

Each CD comes in a glossy wallet featuring photographs from Peter’s
personal collection of dressing room and way-to-the-stage shots.

Pno Gtr Vox Box serves not only as a testament to Peter’s current
performances but also, by the nature of the fact that songs are taken
from all stages of his career, as a significant retrospective
collection.

Limited to 2000 copies globally.

Pre-order now from http://www.burningshed.com/store/peterhammill/ for
13th February 2012 shipping.

Track Listing:

CD1 – ‘What If There No Guitar?’:

1. Easy to Slip Away
2. Time Heals
3. Don’t Tell Me
4. Shell
5. Faculty X
6. Nothing Comes
7. Gone Ahead
8. Friday Afternoon
9. Traintime
10. Undone
11. The Mercy
12. Stranger Still
13. Vision

CD2 – ‘What If There No Piano?’:

1. Comfortable
2. I will Find You
3. Driven
4. The Comet, the Course, the Tail
5. Shingle Song
6. Amnesiac
7. What’s it Worth?
8. Ship of Fools
9. Slender Threads
10. Happy Hour
11. Stumbled
12. Central Hotel
13. Modern
14. Ophelia

CD3 – ‘What If I Knew This Was The Last Show I’d Ever Do?’:

1. Easy to Slip away
2. Just Good Friends
3. After the Show
4. The Mercy
5. The Comet, the course, the Tail
6. If I could
7. Driven
8. Patient
9. Your Tall Ship
10. Stranger Still
11. A Better Time
12. Undone
13. In the End

CD4 – ‘What If I Played Only VDGG/VDG Songs?’:

1. My Room
2. The Siren Song
3. Darkness
4. Every Bloody Emperor
5. Scorched Earth
6. Masks
7. After the Flood
8. The Sphinx in the face
9. The Habit of the Broken heart
10. When she comes
11. House with no Door
12. Still Life

CD5 ‘What About Songs I Didn’t Play In Japan?’:

1. Autumn
2. Unrehearsed
3. Been alone so long
4. Primo on the parapet
5. Our eyes give it shape
6. Like Veronica
7. Time for a chnage
8. Last frame
9. The Lie
10. Meanwhile my mother
11. A Way Out

CD6 – ‘What About Songs I Dropped From The Setlists?’:

1. Labour of Love
2. The Unconscious Life
3. Too Many of my Yesterdays
4. The Mousetrap
5. Sitting Targets
6. The Birds
7. Yoga
8. Four Pails
9. Bubble
10. Time to Burn
11. Afterwards
12. Refugees

CD7 – ‘What About The Best Alternate Versions’:

1. Comfrotable
2. I will Find You
3. The Habit of the Broken Heart
4. Shingle Song
5. Central Hotel
6. The Siren Song
7. Time Heals
8. Shell
9. Stranger Still
10. Traintime

Source:  Burning Shed