Live at the Roundhouse 1975 is a 1982 album of a 1975 concert by the UK underground

UK underground

The Underground was a countercultural movement in the United Kingdom linked to the underground culture in the United States and associated with the hippie phenomenon. Its primary focus was around Ladbroke Grove and Notting Hill in London...

 group Pink Fairies

Pink Fairies

Pink Fairies were an English rock band active in the London underground and psychedelic scene of the early 1970s. They promoted free music, drug taking and anarchy and often performed impromptu gigs and other agitprop stunts, such as playing for free outside the gates at the Bath and Isle of Wight...

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A one-off reunion concert featuring all five previous members of the group was organised by Ted Carroll, head of Chiswick Records

Chiswick Records

Chiswick Records was a British record company. Chiswick was the "first true 'indie' label" to be established in Britain for nearly a decade". The label has been described as "significant" in the "punk era"...

. At the time of this gig, Rudolph was also playing bass for Hawkwind

Hawkwind

Hawkwind are an English rock band, one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. They are also a noted precursor to punk rock and now are considered a link between the hippie and punk cultures....

 whilst Wallis was playing guitar for Motörhead. The tapes were licensed from Douglas Smith for release in 1982, although only part of the concert was issued, the rest being deemed unsuitable for public consumption.

It was pressed on pink vinyl with a cover by long standing collaborator Edward Barker

Edward Barker (cartoonist)

John Edward Barker was an English cartoonist, best known for his work in International Times and The Observer in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the comic strip "The Largactilites" . He was described as "the wittiest and most idiosyncratic cartoonist to emerge from the British...

 featuring a pig which had become the band's ident. The track "Going Down" is a cover of the Freddie King

Freddie King

Freddie King , thought to have been born as Frederick Christian, originally recording as Freddy King, and nicknamed "the Texas Cannonball", was an influential African-American blues guitarist and singer. He is often mentioned as one of "the Three Kings" of electric blues guitar, along with Albert...

 song, but was erroneously credited to Lou Reed on the original release.

When this album was released on CD, several bonus tracks were added. On the CD release, the first five tracks are from the live performance at the Roundhouse. The following six are a collection of previously unreleased tracks, recorded by The Pink Fairies

Pink Fairies

Pink Fairies were an English rock band active in the London underground and psychedelic scene of the early 1970s. They promoted free music, drug taking and anarchy and often performed impromptu gigs and other agitprop stunts, such as playing for free outside the gates at the Bath and Isle of Wight...

. After this follows a further three tracks, credited to be created by "Twink & The Fairies".

Track listing

1. "City Kids" (Wallis, Sanderson)
2. "Waiting for the Man" (Lou Reed
   Lou Reed
   Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...
   
   )
3. "Lucille
   Lucille (Little Richard song)
   "Lucille" is a 1957 rock and roll song which was one of Little Richard's international hits.Released on Specialty Records in February 1957, Little Richard's single made number 21 on the US pop chart, and number 10 on the UK chart...
   
   " (Albert Collins
   Albert Collins
   Albert Collins was an American electric blues guitarist and singer whose recording career began in the 1960s in Houston and whose fame eventually took him to stages across the US, Europe, Japan and Australia...
   
   , Richard Penniman
   Little Richard
   Richard Wayne Penniman , known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, and actor, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. He was also the first artist to put the funk in the rock and roll beat and...
   
   )
4. "Uncle Harry's Last Freakout" (Pink Fairies)
5. "Going Down" (Don Nix
   Don Nix
   Don Nix is a songwriter, composer, arranger, musician, and author. Although cited as being "obscure", he is a key figure in several genres of Southern rock and Soul, R&B, and the Blues...
   
   )

CD reissue bonus tracks

6. "As Long As The Price Is Right"
7. "Waiting For The Lightning To Strike"
8. "Can't Find The Lady"
9. "No Second Chance"
10. "Talk of The Devil"
11. "I Think It's Coming Back Again"
12. "Do It 1977" (Twink & The Fairies)
13. "Psychedelic Punkeroo" (Twink & The Fairies)
14. "Enter The Diamonds" (Twink & The Fairies)

Personnel

• Paul Rudolph
  Paul Rudolph (musician)
  Paul Fraser Rudolph is a guitarist,bassist, singer, and cyclist. He made his mark in the UK underground music scene, and then as a session musician, before returning to Canada to indulge his passion for cycling...
  
   – guitar and vocals
• Larry Wallis
  Larry Wallis
  Larry Wallis is a guitarist, songwriter and producer. He is best known as a member of the Pink Fairies and an early member of Motörhead.-Early bands:...
  
   – guitar and vocals
• Duncan Sanderson – bass, vocals
• Russell Hunter – drums
• Twink
  Twink (musician)
  John Charles Alder , better known as Twink, is an English drummer, singer and songwriter who was a central figure in the English psychedelic movement, and an actor.-Early life and career:...
  
  – drums and vocals