Audience

Audience was a British art rock band formed in London who were active from 1969 through 1972, then reunited in 2004 until finally disbanding in 2013.
.After the debut album issued on Polydor, Tony Stratton Smith, director of Charisma Records, spotted the band supporting Led Zeppelin and signed them up to his label immediately. Audience recorded three albums with Charisma. The first, Friend's Friend's Friend, was produced and designed by the band. Their subsequent releases House on the Hill and Lunch were produced by Gus Dudgeon, with arrangements by Robert Kirby and cover art by record sleeve designers Hipgnosis.
Their first two albums were not issued in the U.S. Elektra signed them up and their final two albums were issued in the U.S. Dudgeon's first 45 rpm production for the band, "Indian Summer", took them into the lower reaches of the U.S. charts, but by this time they were exhausted and fractious, having worked virtually non-stop for three years. A U.S. tour with Rod Stewart and The Faces and Cactus, although successful, brought things to a head, resulting in Gemmell leaving the band in January 1972.
The Peel Session band consisted of Howard Werth (guitar & vocals), Trevor Williams (bass & vocals), Anthony Connor (percussion & vocals), Nick Judd (keyboards) and Patrick Charles (saxophone).
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== Links to Peel ==
Peel took an interest in Audience partly because they recorded for Tony Stratton-Smith's Charisma label, like other British acts of the early 1970s who appeared in his playlists. They did a session for Top Gear and a concert programme and received radio exposure on Sounds Of The Seventies programmes hosted by other DJs, but despite seeing the band do several gigs in 1970-71, Peel doesn't seem to have played many tracks by them. Their single "Indian Summer" never charted in the UK but got some airplay on Radio 1.
After Audience split up in 1972, its individual members went on to work with many other artists and groups, some with Peel connections (singer Howard Werth was even considered as a replacement for the late Jim Morrison by the remaining members of the Doors, but it never worked out). The section of the Wikipedia article on them headed "Break-up" gives full details.
== Sessions ==
1. Recorded: 1972-03-13. Broadcast: 07 April 1972. Repeated: 19 May 1972.
* Trombone Gluch / Barracuda Dan / Buy Me An Island (& Thunder And Lightning)
== Live ==
Recorded: 1971-07-29 (BBC Paris Theatre). Broadcast: 08 August 1971.
* unknown set
== Other Shows Played ==
;1972
* 03 March 1972: Party Games (LP - Lunch) Charisma CAS 1054
* 24 March 1972: Barracuda Dan (LP - Lunch) Charisma
== See Also ==
* Gigography 1970: February 13th (Locarno, Sunderland)
* Gigography 1970: June 1st (Royal Festival Hall)
* Gigography 1970: July 24th (Nags Head, Wollaston)
* Gigography 1971: January 1st (Blisworth, Blissworth Hotel)
* Gigography 1971: March 30th (Portsmouth, Tricorn Club)
== External Links ==
* Website
* Wikipedia
* Discogs
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