Nadir's Big Chance

Studio album by

Peter Hammill

Released

1 February 1975

Recorded

1–7 December 1974

Studio

Rockfield Studios, Monmouthshire
Trident Studios, London

Genre

Progressive rock, garage rock, proto-punk, art rock

Length

48:24

Label

Charisma

Producer

Peter Hammill

Peter Hammill chronology

In Camera
(1974)

Nadir's Big Chance
(1975)

Over
(1977)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Sounds	(favourable)^[2]
Tentative Reviews	^[3]

Nadir's Big Chance is the fifth solo album by Peter Hammill, released on Charisma Records in 1975.

It was recorded shortly after a decision to re-form the band Van der Graaf Generator (of which Hammill was the singer and principal songwriter) and Nadir's Big Chance is actually performed by the reformed Van der Graaf Generator line-up.

The album's songs vary greatly in style, as acknowledged by Hammill in the sleeve notes, which refer to "the beefy punk songs, the weepy ballads, the soul struts".

In a 1977 Capital Radio broadcast, John Lydon of the Sex Pistols played two tracks from the album, "The Institute of Mental Health, Burning" and "Nobody's Business", and expressed his admiration for Hammill.^[4]

The album includes two of Hammill's most frequently performed ballads at concerts and radio interviews, "Been Alone So Long" (written by Judge Smith) and "Shingle Song", and a reworking of Van der Graaf Generator's first single from 1968, "People You Were Going To".

The album presented Hammill's first use of the Hohner clavinet D6 keyboard, which featured prominently on the next few Van der Graaf Generator albums (particularly Godbluff).

In the song "Pushing Thirty" (from The Future Now, 1978), Hammill claims that he "still can be Nadir". The Rikki Nadir persona returned in October 1979, when Hammill released a single titled "The Polaroid" under the name, with "The Old School Tie" from pH7 as the B-side. It was included on some American pressings of pH7.

"Been Alone So Long" was re-worked for Hammill's 1984 album The Love Songs.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Peter Hammill, except where noted

Side one
No.	Title	Writer	Length
1.	"Nadir's Big Chance"		3:27
2.	"The Institute of Mental Health, Burning"	Hammill, Chris Judge Smith	3:50
3.	"Open Your Eyes"		5:10
4.	"Nobody's Business"		4:15
5.	"Been Alone So Long"	Chris Judge Smith	4:20
6.	"Pompeii"		4:50
Total length:			26:02

Side two
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Shingle Song"	4:10
2.	"Airport"	3:02
3.	"People You Were Going To"	5:10
4.	"Birthday Special"	3:40
5.	"Two or Three Spectres"	6:20
Total length:		22:22

Personnel

Peter Hammill – voice, acoustic and electric guitars, Hohner clavinet, piano (7, 9), bass (11)
David Jackson – saxophone (all tracks)
Hugh Banton – bass guitar (1–10), piano (2, 6, 11), Hammond organ (3, 9)
Guy Evans – drums, percussion (all tracks)

Technical

Pat Moran – recording engineer (Rockfield Studios, Monmouth)
Mike Stone – mixing (Trident Studios, London)
Dinu M'Brela (alias of Peter Hammill) – cover design

References

^ Allmusic review
^ "Don't ignore this one". Sounds. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
^ "Review". Tentative Reviews. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
^ "John Lydon: Capital Radio, Tommy Vance Show, July 16th 1977". Fodderstompf. Retrieved 12 February 2021.

External links

Album information on the unofficial VdGG site

v t e Peter Hammill
Studio albums	Fool's Mate (1971) Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night (1973) The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage (1974) In Camera (1974) Nadir's Big Chance (1975) Over (1977) The Future Now (1978) pH7 (1979) A Black Box (1980) Sitting Targets (1981) Enter K (1982) Loops and Reels (1983) Patience (1983) Skin (1986) And Close As This (1986) Spur of the Moment (1988) In a Foreign Town (1988) Out of Water (1990) The Fall of the House of Usher (1991) Fireships (1992) The Noise (1993) Roaring Forties (1994) X My Heart (1996) Sonix - Hybrid Experiments 1994-1996 (1996) Everyone You Hold (1997) This (1998) The Appointed Hour (1999) None of the Above (2000) What, Now? (2001) Unsung (2001) Clutch (2002) Incoherence (2004) Singularity (2006) Thin Air (2009) Consequences (2012) Other World (2014) ...All That Might Have Been... (2014) From the Trees (2017) In Translation (2021)
Live albums	The Margin (1985) Room Temperature (1990) There Goes the Daylight (1993) The Peel Sessions (1995) The Union Chapel Concert (1997) Typical (1999) The Margin + (2002) Veracious (2006) Pno Gtr Vox (2011) Pno Gtr Vox Box (2012) Peter Hammill & The K Group Live at Rockpalast 26/11/81 (2016) X/Ten (2018) Not Yet Not Now (2019)
Singles	"Red Shift" (1973) "Birthday Special" (1975) "Crying Wolf" (1977) "If I Could" (1978) "The Polaroid" (1979) "My Experience" (1981) "Paradox Drive" (1982) "Film Noir" (1983) "Just Good Friends" (1985) "Painting by Numbers" (1986) A Fix on the Mix (1992) ‎(CD, EP)
Live videos	In the Passionskirche (1992) Live at Rockpalast - Hamburg 1981 (2016)
Compilation albums	Vision (1978) The Love Songs (1984) The Essential Collection (1986) The Storm (Before the Calm) (1993) The Calm (After the Storm) (1993) Offensichtlich Goldfisch (1993) After the Show - A Collection (1996) Past Go: Collected (1996) The Thin Man Sings Ballads (2002)
Collaborators	Judge Smith David Jackson Guy Evans John Ellis Nic Potter Roger Eno Stuart Gordon

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