''Sleepless Nights'' is a 1982 album by

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. It was the first album to be released on the group's own record label, and peaked at position 59 in the UK album charts.

Production

''Sleepless Nights'' was produced and engineered by

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. It was recorded at

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. The album was the first to be released on Lindisfarne's own record label.

Chart performance, single releases and critical response

''Sleepless Nights'' appeared in the UK album charts at #59 in October 1982. This proved to be the album's peak position, and it spent only three weeks in the chart. Three tracks from the album were released as singles. The first, "I Must Stop Going To Parties", received a large amount of radio airplay but did not chart. It was followed by "Sunderland Boys" and "Nights", both of which proved unsuccessful. The album received mixed reviews. Bruce Elder of

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rated the album at only two out of five stars. Duke Egbert, writing for The Daily Vault, stated in a review of the 1999 live album ''Live At The Cambridge Folk Festival'' that he considered ''Sleepless Nights'' to be one of the "highlights of the band's career". In his 2004

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review of ''The River Sessions'', Clive Pownceby praised two tracks from the album, "Same Way Down" and "Nights".BBC Radio 2 - Folk and Acoustic reviews: The River Sessions
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Track listing

:All tracks credited to Alan Hull except where indicated # "Nights" - 4:11 # "Start Again" - 3:32 # "Cruising to Disaster" - 4:02 # "Same Way Down" - 3:26 # "Winning the Game" (Ray Jackson, Charlie Harcourt) - 4:22 # "About You" - 4:13 # "Sunderland Boys" (Rod Clements) - 3:31 # "Love Is a Pain" - 2:31 # "Do What I Want" - 3:11 # "Never Miss the Water" - 3:51 # "I Must Stop Going To Parties" - 3:09 # "Stormy Weather" - 3:50

Personnel

; Lindisfarne *

Alan Hull James Alan Hull (20 February 1945 – 17 November 1995) was an English singer-songwriter and founding member of the Tyneside folk rock band Lindisfarne. Career Hull was born at 68 Sutton's Dwellings, Adelaide Terrace, Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyn ...

- vocals, acoustic, electric and 12-string guitars, keyboards * Ray Jackson - vocals, mandolin, harmonica *

Rod Clements Roderick Parry Clements (born 17 November 1947 in North Shields, Northumberland) is a British guitarist, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He formed the folk-rock band Lindisfarne with Alan Hull in 1970, and wrote "Meet Me on the Co ...

- electric bass, acoustic, electric and 12-string guitars, violin *

Simon Cowe Simon Cowe (1 April 1948 – 30 September 2015) was an English guitarist and multi-instrumentalist most noted as a member of the folk-rock group Lindisfarne from their original formation in 1970 until 1973, and then again from 1978 to his depart ...

- lead, acoustic and 12-string guitars, mandolin, vocals *Ray Laidlaw - drums ;Technical *Max Norman, Stephen Lipson - engineer

References

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