For a band who put out only four albums back in the ’70s, the legend of UNICORN is still going strong, the quartet’s platters, like the David Gilmour-produced "Too Many Crooks" from 1976 reissued time and again, and archival tapes such as those collected on "Shed No Tear" two years ago, drawing a lot of attention too. Glaringly missing from all these releases were live recordings – and now these are to take pride of place on the ensemble’s “alternative anthology” that will see the light of day on September 25th.
Titled “Last Orders” and comprising a whopping 37 pieces, the two-CD set features onstage tapes from 1971 and 1974 which share the disc space with the cuts that didn’t end up on the group’s longplays and thus remained shelved for five decades. There are studio and home demos as well as three numbers from 2019 and “The Last Song”: an unfinished 1976 track completed fifty years later with Nick Capaldi providing vocals.
Last Orders
CD 1
Live in London, 1971:
1. 115 Bar Joy
2. Barriers, Keys & Things
3. Jesus Knows
4. P.F. Sloan
5. Fully Baked
Studio Sessions, 1972:
6. Me And My Worried Head
7. Mary
8. Good Times
9. Can’t Move On
Live in Boulder, Colorado, 1974:
10. Electric Night
11. Holland
12. In The Gym
13. Just Wanna Hold You
14. Keep On Going
15. Nightingale Crescent
16. Sleep Song
17. Take It Easy
18. The Farmer
CD 2
Demos 1976-1978:
19. Sitting In Line
20. Does It Have To Be This Way
21. What Ever Money Can Buy (demo)
22. Bon Soir Blues
23. Forgive And Forget
24. So Tired
25. Come In From The Cold
26. Heatwave 76
27. Hate Waiting For You
28. Nighttime
29. Time Between
30. Long Road
Demos 1982:
31. If You Ain’t Scared
32. I Wish That You Would Come
33. You And Me On A Sunday Afternoon
34. Real World
35. I Used To Be A Rebel
36. White Man’s Blues
bonus track, 2026:
37. The Last Song (feat. Nick Capaldi)
