CAMEL
The Bath Forum
Bath, UK
7th July 2015

Lineage:
Church Audio CA-14 cardioids > CA-9200 > Edirol R-09HR (@24/96) > Cool Edit Pro 2 > CDWave > TLH

Recorded second row in line with (suspended) house right stack

Recording, transfer & artwork by boombox

01. Never Let Go
02. Lost And Found
03. The White Rider
04. Song Within A Song
05. Unevensong
06. Spirit Of The Water
07. Air Born
08. Lunar Sea
09. Another Night
10. Drafted
11. Ice
++++Suggested Disc Split++++
12. Echoes
13. Mother Road
14. Hopeless Anger
15. Whispers In The Rain
16. Encore Break
17. Lady Fantasy
18. Band Introduction
19. Long Goodbyes

CAMEL are:
Andy Latimer - guitar, flute, recorder, vocals
Colin Bass - bass, vocals
Denis Clement - drums, recorder
Ton Scherpenzeel - keyboards
Jason Hart - keyboards, acoustic guitar, backing vocals

boombox's notes july 2015:

These annual mini Camel tours are quickly becoming one of my highlights of every year since 2013. Unsurprisingly, these shows all pretty much sold out, but I got my ticket as soon as they were announced, so bagged the end of the second row in front of a stack, thinking it a great position to get nice and close to Andy et al, and hopefully where I could get a good recording and some photos and video. Unfortunately, the Forum staff were not the friendliest, pouncing on anyone they saw with a camera. This was a pity as they really did put on a full multi-media show, with excellent lights and some fine 70s-style projections, which would have been lovely to share. As for the setlist, it was a complete change from the previous two outings, with no Snow Goose at all (though St Alban's the previous night got some in a second encore). A much rockier set (Andy told me afterwards that they were trying to do a setlist better suited to the various festivals they are playing this summer) and tough to pick favourites, but special mention has to go to 'Ice', which got a trully well-deserved standing ovation and a fine, bittersweet, 'Long Goodbyes', which featured projections of Chris Rainbow and Guy Le Blanc, who we lost earlier this year. I've included a small folder of the few half decent pics I managed to snap as a memento for those there who weren't so lucky!

As for the recording, it's pretty good, I think, despite the PA being suspended quite high, so back in about row 10 might have been a better location. To compensate, I added a bit of a mid-range hump and took out some of the bass - when Denis hit the floor toms in the louder passages, it was
causing my chest to vibrate quite uncomfortably - it's a miracle my mics coped with it. I had to reduce the level of some of the whoops, hollers and clapping of my very enthusiastic neighbour and used just a tiny bit of compression to tame some of the peaks. As always, my 24 bit masters are available for anyone wanting to do a remaster/matrix project: just make sure it's shared here for all to benefit, please.

Enjoy!

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