Wise After the Event

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Wise After the Event
Studio album by Anthony Phillips
Released	May, 1978
Recorded	October - December, 1977
Genre	Progressive Rock
Length	59:40
Label	Passport Records, Virgin Records
Producer(s)	Rupert Hine
Anthony Phillips chronology
The Geese and the Ghost (1977)	Wise After the Event (1978)	Sides (1979)

Wise After the Event is the second solo album from former Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips. It was released in 1978 by Passport Records.

As originally planned, Wise After the Event was to be an album and an accompanying EP. At some point subsequent to the commissioning of the artwork for the record jacket, the material was pared down to just enough for an album. Discrepancies between Peter Cross' original artwork and the actual running order of the album were corrected when it was re-released in 1990.

Two tracks cut from the album came out on a contemporaneous single. "Squirrel" and the brief "Sitars and Nebulous" were coupled on the B-side of the May, 1978, "We're All As We Lie" single. "Squirrel" was later reunited with the album as a bonus track on the 1990 CD reissue.

The rest of the missing music was released on Phillips' 1980 album, Private Parts and Pieces II: Back to the Pavilion. This included three songs (actually just short links) that were definitely planned and sequenced for the earlier album, "Chinaman", "Romany's Aria", and "Von Runkel's Yorker Music" (previously called "Sitars and Nebulous"). Private Parts and Pieces II: Back to the Pavilion includes two additional songs, "Tremulous" and "Magic Garden", that date from the Wise After the Event sessions, but whose position on that album was less certain.

A 2CD reissue is planned to be released in 2007 on Voiceprint Records Blueprint label.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Anthony Phillips except where indicated

1. "We're All As We Lie" – 4:35
2. "Birdsong and Reprise" – 6:43
3. "Moonshooter" – 5:55
4. "Wise After the Event" – 10:30
   • Contains the hidden track "Hunt Link"
5. "Pulling Faces" – 4:35
6. "Regrets" – 6:02
7. "Greenhouse" (Anthony Phillips/Jeremy Gilbert) – 3:00
8. "Paperchase" – 5:31
9. "Now What (Are They Doing to my Little Friends?)" – 8:21
10. "Squirrel" – 4:28 (CD bonus track)

[edit] The Players

• Anthony Phillips: Vocals and harmonica
• Michael Giles: Drums
• John G. Perry: Bass
• The Vicar: Guitars, keyboards and sundries
• Jeremy Gilbert: Keyboards on 7, Harp on 9
• Mel Collins: Soprano Saxophone on 1, Flutes on 2
• Robin Phillips: Oboe
• Rupert Hine: Percussion, backing vocals, locks, probs, modes and vibes
• Perkin Alanbeck: Synthesizer on 2
• Humbert Ruse & Vic Stench: Drums and bass on 7
• Rodent Rabble: Clicks, claps and crampons
• Orchestra on 6 conducted by Gilbert Biberian

[edit] External links

• Anthony Phillips site