Infos
Line-up / Musicians
- Roy Keyworth / Guitar, Mellotron and backing vocals
- Stuart Nicholson / Main voice, backing vocals, ranting, shouting screaming and chimes
- Spencer Luckmann / Drums and percussion
- Dean Baker / Synthesisers, Piano, Mellotron, sequencers, sound effects, odd noises and backing vocals
- Lee Abraham / Bass guitar, tubular bell samples & backing vocals
Plus special quests:
- Mike Kneller / Additional guitar
- Sarah Bolter / Vocals
- Tina Booth / Vocals
- Karl Groom / Acoustic guitar on Africa Twin and guitar solo on Sidewinder
- Clive Nolan Fake Dulcimer
All songs jammed, written, rehearsed, arranged, produced and performed by Galahad.
Words by Stu.
Recorded mainly Thin Ice Studios, Surrey, UK but also in Stus spare bedroom, Deans garage and Mikes front room.
Engineered, co-produced, edited, mixed and mastered by Karl Groom at Thin Ice Studios, Surrey, England.
Re-mixed and re-mastered by Karl Groom at Thin Ice Studios, Spring – Summer 2014.
Empires Never Last (Orchestral Version) arranged and recorded by Dean Baker. Mixed by Karl Groom including new lead vocal at Thin Ice Studios, Spring 2016.
Design and Art Direction by Paul Tippett for Vitamin P
All songs © 2007/2016 Galahad/Avalon Records,
licenced exclusively to Oskar Productions
This release also contains three extra tracks on side four, being stripped back versions of 'Termination', 'This Life Could Be My Last' and a brand new unreleased orchestral version of 'Empires Never Last'.
This 'Black' vinyl edition is limited to 400 handnummered copies only.
Come with a free CD copy of 'A Curious Companion - Demos & Cuts from Empires', a collection of demo tracks and song ideas some of which were used on the final version of 'Empires Never Last' and some of which were not. This is the first time that this 'companion' album has been available in a hard copy format.