Camel Royal Albert

Camel At The Royal Albert Hall celebrates Camel's superb Moonmadness 2018 tour. Universally acclaimed by everyone that saw it, the RAH concert was the pinnacle of the tour. With the line-up of Andrew Latimer (guitar/flute/vocals), Colin Bass (bass/vocals), Denis Clement (drums) and Pete Jones (keyboards/vocals), this is Camel at their best.

Camel are an English progressive rock band formed in Guildford, Surrey, in 1971. Led by guitarist Andrew Latimer, they have released fourteen studio albums and fourteen singles, plus numerous live albums and DVDs. Without achieving mass popularity, the band gained a cult following in the 1970s with albums such as Mirage (1974) and The Snow Goose (1975). They moved into a jazzier, more commercial direction in the early 1980s, but then went on an extended hiatus. Since 1991 the band has been independent, releasing albums on their own label.

Air Born: The MCA & Decca Years 1973-1984 is a new box set featuring the music of English prog-rock band Camel. The box features 27 CDs & five blu-rays and includes newly remastered versions of every Camel album and single issued between 1973 and 1984, but also includes new stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound versions of five albums, as well as new mixes of three concerts; The Marquee Club, London 1974, Hammersmith Odeon 1976 and Hammersmith Odeon 1977. The package also features previously unreleased outtakes from album recording sessions and BBC Radio ‘In Concert’ appearances from 1974, 1975, 1977 and 1981.

The elegant, ambitious and all-instrumental album, Camel’s third, was first released in April 1975, and became the first of their eight consecutive UK chart albums over the following decade. Formed in London in 1971, the band had released their self-titled debut in 1973, then made inroads on the American market with the following year’s Mirage. That didn’t chart in their own country, but by 1975, with the album-oriented market in its prime and artists able to sell large quantities of LPs without the need for hit singles, Camel really hit their stride.