Patience (Peter Hammill album)

Patience
Studio album by Peter Hammill
Released	August 1983
Genre	Art rock
Length	40:28
Label	Naive
Producer	Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill chronology

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, Guy Evans (Hammill's former colleague in VdGG), John Ellis (of The Vibrators), and Nic Potter (also occasionally of VdGG.)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Patience reached #15 in the UK Indie Chart.[2]

The members of the K Group adopted aliases for this and some other recordings. Hammill was "K", Evans was "Brain", Ellis was "Fury" and Potter was "Mozart".

"Patient", "Traintime" and "Comfortable" have all been played regularly by Hammill in live performance in recent 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, keyboards, 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

Allmusic review
Lazell, Barry (1997) Indie Hits 1980-1989, Cherry Red Books, ISBN 0-9517206-9-4

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[1] Allmusic review

[Lazell-2] Lazell, Barry (1997) Indie Hits 1980-1989, Cherry Red Books, ISBN 0-9517206-9-4

Peter Hammill
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)
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)
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 Video	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