Mayday (Hugh Cornwell album)

Mayday
Live album by Hugh Cornwell
Released	1999 (internet download)
Recorded	May 1, 1998
Genre	post-punk
Label	HIS Records Track Records
Hugh Cornwell chronology
Guilty (1997) Mayday (1999) Solo (1999)

Mayday is a live album by Hugh Cornwell. It was a live show recorded at Sankey's Soap in Manchester on 1 May 1998, hence the title.

Along with Hugh Cornwell are Mike Polson (guitar and backing vocals), Michelle Marti (bass and backing vocals) and Justin Chapman (drums). The set list consists entirely of Hugh's solo work taken from his first two albums recorded after leaving The Stranglers, Wired and Guilty, and from his 1979 collaboration with Captain Beefheart drummer Robert Williams, Nosferatu.

Initially a internet download release from 1999 on Hugh's own label, HIS Records (Catalogue number HIS CD002) and subsequently available on the Track Records label (Catalogue number TRK1019CD, released October 7, 2002).

Track listing

1. "Irate Caterpillar"
2. "White Room"
3. "Nerves of Steel"
4. "Black Hair Black Eyes Black Suit"
5. "Torture Garden"
6. "Snapper"
7. "Big Sleep"
8. "Wired"
9. "Mothra"
10. "House of Sorrow"
11. "Long Dead Train"

References

• "The Torture Garden - Official Hugh Cornwell site". Discography - Mayday. http://www.hughcornwell.com/mayday02page.html. Retrieved March 19, 2005. 
• "Track Records Catalogue". Hugh Cornwell - Mayday. http://www.trackrecords.co.uk/artists/hugh_cornwell/artist_hc.php. Retrieved March 19, 2005.