Alan Hull - Pipedream (1973)

Side One:

1. Breakfast Alan Hull
2. Justanothersadsong Alan Hull
3. Money game Alan Hull
4. STD 0632 Alan Hull
5. United states of mind Alan Hull
6. Country gentleman's wife Alan Hull


Side Two:

1. Numbers ( Travelling Band) Alan Hull
2. For the bairns Alan Hull
3. Drug song Alan Hull
4. Song for a windmill Alan Hull
5. Blue murder Alan Hull
6. I hate to see you cry Alan Hull

Produced by Micky Sweeney and Alan Hull. The cover named following musicians

 Alan Hull        Guitars, Piano, Harmonium, Vocals,Guinness   
 Ken Craddock     Piano, Organ, Harmonium, Elec. Piano, Guitars
                  Guiness, Wine, Tequila, Pernod, Coca-Cola 
 Ray Jackson      Harp, Mandolin, Vocals, Rude Noises
 Ray Laidlaw      Drums and Common Sense
 Jon Turnball     Guitars, Orange Juice and health foods
 Colin Gibson     Bass, Mental Indecision, Snuff, Herbal Tobacco
 Dave Brooks      Sax on 'For The Bairns'

 Micky Sweeney    Production and high level energy
 Charles Cameron  The bar that held it all together
 Ken Scott        Engineering
 Mike Stone       Engineering
 Roy T. Baker     Engineering, all of the mix and Woofy Woofy
 Sleeve Design    Ian Vincenti
 Front Painting   'La Lampe Philosophique' by R. Magritte

REVIEWS ( from the Pipedream songbook )

Roy Hollingsworth - Melody Maker

"U can't really believe that out of 12 songs, 11 of them are quite frankly brilliant, and, dammit, after just one playing you'll find yourself humming them like they were songs you'd known for years..... So, I'm overjoyed to report that Hull is triumphant again, and has made what I feel the finest thing to emerged from the Lindisfarne clan."

Steve Clarke - New Muscial Express

"Alan Hull has made a darn good record..... it's excellent. Both musically and lyrically..... With McCartney's writing a mere ghost of his past achievements and Lennon going through a period of musical inactivity Alan Hull is easily one of the best songwriters currently around. Like Lennon he has that Northern bite which makes "Pipedream" a reality."

Jerry Gilbert - Sounds

".... the new Alan Hull album is one that you'll want to place alongside your Lindisfarne collection, and I dare say give pride of place .... the way Hully presents his songs is so compelling, his humour and his paradoxes so Freudian that really it's difficult to stop playing his music...... It's a great album, my friends, everything we'd wanted from the old band and a yardstick by which to judge the new. Alan Hull......has found the charge to extract the music from within."