Room Temperature (album)

1990 live album by Peter Hammill

Room Temperature

Live album by

Peter Hammill

Released| November 1990
Recorded| February–March 1990
Venue| Various concerts in the US, UK and Canada
Genre| Art rock
Length| 145:43
Label| Enigma
Producer| Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill chronology
| Out of Water
(1990)  | Room Temperature
(1990)  | The Fall of the House of Usher
(1991)

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Room Temperature is a live album by Peter Hammill, originally released on Enigma Records in 1990. On its initial release, the album was only available in North America. It was subsequently re-released on Hammill's own Fie! label.

The album documents Hammill's 1990 tour of Europe and North America. Hammill's group for this tour consisted of Stuart Gordon on violin and former Van der Graaf Generator bassist Nic Potter on bass. There was no drummer, hence some of the songs on these recordings have a stripped down, chamber music feel. The group was briefly billed as the Peter Hammill Band.

Initial copies of this double live CD came in a longbox.

## Track listing[edit]

All tracks composed by Peter Hammill; except where indicated

Disc one

1. "The Wave" (03:43)
2. "Just Good Friends" (05:15)
3. "Vision" (04:52)
4. "Time to Burn" (05:00)
5. "Four Pails" (Chris Judge Smith, Max Hutchinson) - (06:42)
6. "The Comet, the Course, the Tail" (09:19)
7. "Ophelia" (04:20)
8. "Happy Hour" (09:14)
9. "If I Could" (06:03)
10. "Something About Ysabel's Dance" (07:27)
11. "Patient" (10:02)

Disc two

1. "Cat's Eye/Yellow Fever (Running)" (Graham Smith, Peter Hammill) - (06:06)
2. "Skin" (05:30)
3. "Hemlock" (08:23)
4. "Our Oyster" (07:12)
5. "The Unconscious Life" (06:03)
6. "After the Show" (10:57)
7. "A Way Out" (08:46)
8. "The Future Now" (04:06)
9. "Traintime" (06:40)
10. "Modern" (10:03)

## Personnel[edit]

* Peter Hammill – vocals, guitar, keyboards
* Stuart Gordon – violin
* Nic Potter – bass

## References[edit]

1. ^ Prato, Greg. Room Temperature at AllMusic

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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)
* 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

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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