Dormant through most of the 80s, their best and least Dire Straits-y latter-day album is 2003’s The Unauthorised Breakfast Item, which knows all the right Caravan fan triggers to pull.Īmong the mountain range of live sets, there are inevitably peaks and… well, troughs would be too strong a put-down. 1972’s follow-up, Waterloo Lily, didn’t catch lightning the same way, but the next year’s For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night (viola player Geoffrey Richardson’s debut) saw them back to their best, not least on cult classics Memory Lain, Hugh/Headloss and The Dog, The Dog, He’s At It Again.įrom here they settled into a phase of pretty good but not great releases, though enlisting Tony Visconti to produce 1977’s Better By Far resulted in the exquisite Nightmare. …Grey And Pink then took them to their very own land: it remains the quintessential Caravan creation.
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