Surprise Supplies

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1999 live album by Caravan

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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Professional ratingsReview scores

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AllMusic| [1]

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

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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

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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

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

## References

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1. ^ Planer, Lindsay. "Caravan - Surprise Supplies | AllMusic". AllMusic.com. Retrieved 23 June 2011.

## External links

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* 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

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Caravan

* Pye Hastings
* Geoffrey Richardson
* Jan Schelhaas
* Jim Leverton
* Mark Walker

* Richard Coughlan
* Richard Sinclair
* Dave Sinclair
* Steve Miller
* Derek Austin
* Stuart Evans
* John G. Perry
* Mike Wedgwood
* Dek Messecar
* Doug Boyle
* Simon Bentall
* Jimmy Hastings

Studio albums|

* Caravan
* If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
* In the Land of Grey and Pink
* Waterloo Lily
* For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night
* Cunning Stunts
* Blind Dog at St. Dunstans
* Better by Far
* The Album
* Back to Front
* Cool Water
* The Battle of Hastings
* The Unauthorized Breakfast Item
* Paradise Filter
* It's None of Your Business

Live albums|

* Caravan and the New Symphonia
* Live at the Fairfield Halls, 1974
* BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert
* Live: Canterbury Comes to London
* Songs for Oblivion Fishermen
* Ether Way: BBC Sessions 1975-77
* Surprise Supplies
* Green Bottles for Marjorie: The Lost BBC Sessions

Compilation albums|

* The Show of Our Lives
* The Best of Caravan – Canterbury Tales
* Travelling Man
* All Over You...Too
* The Show of Our Lives – Caravan at the BBC 1968–1975
* The World Is Yours – The Anthology 1968-1976

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* MusicBrainz release group

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