His Love: Geoff Mann’s Art, Music and Faith – pre-order
To commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the passing of our dear friend, Geoff Mann, this February, his official biography will be published later this year. His Love: Geoff Mann’s Art, Music and Faith has been written by Andrew Wild, author of many books including the Twelfth Night biography Play On. Like several of Andrew’s other books it will be published by SonicBond. Read more…
Posted Feb 2nd 2023
FACT AND FICTION Re-released
After a summer break we are back with news of the updated 2022 version of Fact And Fiction, which is released this September to celebrating the 40th Anniversary of our 1982 album, regarded by many as our finest work. Read more…
Posted Sep 2nd 2022
NIGHT VISION Re-released
We are delighted to say that we are now able to announce the release of NIGHT VISION, the last release in our series of ‘Remastered Archive Releases’. It will be officially released on 18th March, but can be pre-ordered now. Read more…
Posted Mar 4th 2022
MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM Re-released
We are delighted to say that we are now able to announce the release of MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM, the penultimate release in our series of ‘Remastered Archive Releases’. It will be officially released on 18th March, but can be pre-ordered now. Read more…
Posted Mar 3rd 2022
Tales From A Misspent Youth – volume 1
We are delighted to say that the CD was released as planned on Jan 28th, and that the digital album and selected tracks are now available to download. There have been some really positive comments both on Facebook and from some of our European fans/reviewers. Read more…
Posted Feb 4th 2022
Smiling At Grief – Revisited
Last month we were able to master the remaining tracks for the SAG – Revisited CD, which means that we are now able to give full details of the CD and invite pre-orders. Read more…
Posted Feb 4th 2022
Tall Tales and other Christmas Presents…
The BIG news this month is that we are finally able to officially announce the forthcoming release of Clive’s second solo album Tales From A Misspent Youth – volume 1. Read more…
Posted Dec 3rd 2021
Flashbacks
We are delighted to announce the forthcoming release of Flashbacks. This is the live recording made in July 1983 with Geoff. Mostly recorded at the Marquee it features only the second performance of The Collector, and the first one to be recorded. Read more…
Posted Oct 3rd 2021
Corner Of The World
This is the compilation album from May 1985 (our first tour since Art & Illusion) when we were trying out a few new songs written with Andy Sears. Although only a short run of dates they were all memorable… and this album is drawn from the four gigs that were recorded. Read more…
Posted Oct 1st 2021
News of an LP release!
We are today announcing the forthcoming release of an LP! For the first time in 40 years we are going to issue a TN album on VINYL…
The album is question is the 40th anniversary version of Smiling At Grief, the first album we recorded with Geoff, which we will be releasing in 2022. Read more…
Posted Sep 1st 2021
Entropy – 40th Anniversary Remaster
We are delighted to announce the forthcoming 40th anniversary re-release of Entropy. This is the live recording made in March 1981 when touring the Live At The Target album. Read more…
Posted Aug 6th 2021
Good Friday?
We certainly hope so as “Suite Cryptique”, Clive’s brilliant first solo album, was officially released on 2nd April. Read more…
Posted Apr 9th 2021
C:Live Collective: The Age Of Insanity CD and more!
We are very pleased to say that, after successful negotiations… all The C:live Collective merchandise is now exclusively available from the TN Bandcamp page. Read more…
Posted Apr 2nd 2021
Reading Rocks again!
We are delighted to announce the release of a SPECIAL EDITION of the Reading Rock DVD, which includes, for the first time, a bonus CD-R of the four tracks, broadcast by the BBC, that feature on the DVD. Read more…
Posted Mar 15th 2021
Suite Cryptique – update
We are delighted to say that Clive’s brilliant new album “Suite Cryptique” is now being pressed ready for release on Friday 19th March, as planned. At the moment we can’t be sure whether there will be a second pressing, so if you want to make sure you get a copy of this ground-breaking album, you know what to do! Order your copy here. Read more…
Posted Mar 5th 2021
Suite Cryptique: Recomposing Twelfth Night 1978-1983
We are delighted to announce the forthcoming release of Clive Mitten’s first solo album, Suite Cryptique: Recomposing Twelfth Night 1978-1983. It is Clive’s orchestral re-imaginings of our music, taking themes from many of the tracks from that period and reworking them in a classical style to produce something entirely new and quite breath-taking! Read more…
Posted Feb 5th 2021
Live At The Target – it was 40 years ago!!
‘Live At The Target’ is, as I’m sure you know, a fully instrumental album, with a 20-minute Sequences taking up the whole of side two. It was first released on CD (without our permission!) by French label MSI in 1989, then with 3 bonus tracks by Cyclops in 2004, and finally in its Definitive Edition form (with a 2nd bonus CD) on F2 in 2011. Read more…
Posted Jan 6th 2021
All you can… eat?
From Friday 4th December, another “Bandcamp ‘fee-free’ Friday“, you can fund three more albums on our Bandcamp page! The new albums are Recorded Delivery, This City Is London, and All You Can… Eat? (a FREE FESTIVE FEAST of the musical kind :-)). https://twelfthnightuk.bandcamp.com/music Read more…
Posted Dec 8th 2020
Virgin’ On The Ridiculous?
As today, Friday 6th November, is another “Bandcamp ‘fee-free’ Friday“, we have just added two more albums to our Bandcamp page! They are A Night To Remember, last year’s CD, BluRay & DVD release now also available to download, and Virgin On The Ridiculous an alternative double-take on the album released by Virgin Records back in 1986. https://twelfthnightuk.bandcamp.com/album/virgin-on-the-ridiculous Read more…
Posted Nov 6th 2020
Bandcamp!
We are delighted to let you know that
The TN Bandcamp site officially launches today!
We hope that this email finds you well. These are indeed difficult times, and we know that many of you will be in lockdown. Having been in lockdown myself now for a few weeks, I was finally able to update the TN mailing list and copy it to MailChimp. This is to enable us to communicate with you more effectively. Read more…
Posted Oct 26th 2020
A Night To Remember to be released in November
We are delighted to announce that we have finally completed work on A Night To Remember, our legendary performance from 2012 recorded live at The Guildhall School of Music in London’s world renowned Barbican Centre. Read more…
Posted Oct 23rd 2019
MMX DVD – Special Offer!
As our special offer on the Reading Rock DVD has been so successful, we have decided to put another item on promotion as well! This time it is the MMX DVD, which is now available at the special price of just £6.00 (half its normal retail price). Read more…
Posted Dec 13th 2018
Sequences to be released on Remembrance Sunday
We are delighted to announce we have completed the recording and mixing of the new studio version of Sequences. The 23-minute piece tells the story of a young man going off to fight in the First World War and coming back a changed man. Read more…
Posted Oct 29th 2018
Twelfth Night mark 100 years since WW1 with new recording of Sequences
First ever full studio version to be released in November – 40 years after it was first written.
Twelfth Night are back in the studio, recording a new version of Sequences, their most popular track and set finale. Read more…
Posted Oct 13th 2018
Reading Rock DVD – Special Offer!
To commemorate the 35th anniversary of playing at the Reading Rock Festival, the DVD of our ‘legendary’ performance is now available for a limited period at the special price of just £6 (the normal price is £12). Read more…
Posted Aug 24th 2018
Fact And Fiction – Definitive Edition release!
We are delighted to confirm that our long-awaited ‘Fact And Fiction’ – Definitive Edition album will released on Friday 15th June.
Pre-sales have been very healthy – thank you if you have ordered already – and have encouraged us to increase the number being pressed! Read more…
Posted Jun 12th 2018
Fact and Fiction pre-orders!
We are delighted to be able to invite pre-orders for the Fact And Fiction album. It is a 3CD digipack comprising 39 tracks and extensive sleevenotes, and will be released on the F2 Music label in May. All pre-orders will be shipped the day the album arrives! Further details to follow.
Posted Apr 13th 2018
Night Moves – March 2018
I must say it doesn’t seem nearly 3 months since we last posted to tell you of our plans for 2018…
This is probably because we’ve been so busy working on all these projects that we hadn’t noticed how fast the time was going… so better late than never, here’s the promised update! Read more…
Posted Apr 3rd 2018
Bring On 2018
It’s been very quiet recently, hasn’t it?
The good news is that 2018 will be a busy year for us – it will very soon be 40 years since our first ever gig at Reading University, when we were a 2-piece band called, simply, Andy Revell. Read more…
Posted Jan 23rd 2018
News Update
It’s been very quiet recently, hasn’t it?
The good news is that 2018 will be a busy year for us – it will very soon be 40 years since our first ever gig at Reading University, when we were a 2-piece band called, simply, Andy Revell. Read more…
Posted Dec 20th 2017
Special Offer for the Festive Season!
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of our biggest ever headline tour, and most successful album – according to the ‘Guinness Book of Hit Singles and Albums’, that is – we are delighted to announce that this season’s special offer is the Definitive Edition release of ‘Art & Illusion’. Read more…
Posted Dec 15th 2014
‘A Night to Remember’…
Just a short update to let you all know how things are progressing with the DVD and CD release of the Barbican show from 2012, which has the working title “A Night to Remember”. Read more…
Posted Jun 18th 2014
Twelfth Night at Celebr8.3
Preparations are well underway our forthcoming performance at this year’s Celebr8.3 Prog festival, which is being held at The Islington Assembly Hall in Central London, over the weekend of Saturday May 31st and June 1st 2014. Read more…
Posted Apr 22nd 2014
Twelfth Night, Live at the Guildhall – video under way
Just a quick update to say that work is going well on our next DVD release (with a HD version likely to be available as well). Read more…
Posted Feb 21st 2014
Let’s kickstart Andy’s new album…
Having spent an entertaining evening last week in the company of Andy Sears (and other members of the ‘Alchemy’ cast) Read more…
Posted Feb 10th 2014
Special Offer to celebrate Twelfth Night!
To celebrate ‘Twelfth Night’ – this month’s special offer is the Definitive Edition release of our first vinyl LP, recorded 33 years ago this month at the Target Pub in Reading. Read more…
Posted Jan 9th 2014
Smiling At Grief – Double CD – Special Offer!
This month’s special offer is the first Definitive Edition CD we released back in 2009 – less than a year after our first reunion shows culminated in a memorable trip to Spain. Read more…
Posted Dec 10th 2013
Live And Let Live CD – Special Offer!
Following our special offers on the Reading Rock & MMX DVDs, we have decided to continue with another promotion this month! Read more…
Posted Nov 2nd 2013
MMX DVD – Special Offer!
Our special offer on the Reading Rock DVD was so successful that we have decided to do another promotion this month! This time it is the MMX DVD – to celebrate the 3rd anniversary of its release in 2010. Read more…
Posted Oct 1st 2013
Reading Rock DVD – Special Offer!
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of our playing at the Reading Rock Festival – the DVD of our ‘legendary’ performance is available during the month of September at the special price of just £6. (The normal price is £12). Read more…
Posted Sep 2nd 2013
On The Road
Both Andy Sears and Mark Spencer have gigs coming up this week.
Andy Sears is appearing in Clive Nolan’s latest musical “Alchemy”, in Cheltenham, while Mark heads off with Galahad for a series of shows in mainland Europe. Read more…
Posted Sep 1st 2013
Act One: Scene One
We are delighted to announce that our latest Archive Release “The Skan Demos / First Tape Album” will be released on Mon 12th August as a 70 minute single CDR. We are taking pre-orders now, so if you want to be among the first to hear this slice of ‘TN’ history… Read more…
Posted Jul 25th 2013
Albums that saved PROG
We are thrilled to tell you that our Fact And Fiction album is going to be the next one featured in PROG Magazine’s series “The Albums That Saved Prog!” Read more…
Posted Jun 13th 2013
New album release!
We are delighted to announce the forthcoming release of our latest album… which is actually our first one! And not only that… it also includes the very first recordings we ever made! Read more…
Posted May 22nd 2013
Mark Spencer at Celebr8.2
Excellent ‘acoustic’ sets from Mark Spencer and Galahad at Celebr8.2 yesterday.
Mark’s versions of Fact & Fiction, This City and Love Song were very well-received. Read more…
Posted May 12th 2013
Marcel Haster’s review of LALL
One of Marcel’s fantastic video reviews… This time, it’s our Live and let Live album. Read more…
Posted Apr 26th 2013
Roundup of 2012
As it was such a momentous year we thought a quick round-up/retrospective would be in order. Read more…
Posted Mar 2nd 2013
Andy in Alchemy – Mark at Marillion
Although there are no gigs planned for the band, various members of the ‘TN’ family are going to be ‘out and about’ this year. Read more…
Posted Mar 1st 2013
January News Update
Since we posted last time we have played 2 gigs – the first at Danfest2 in Leicester and then a special gig in December at the Barbican in London. The contrast between the 2 venues/shows could hardly have been greater – but suffice to say plenty of fun was had at both of them. Read more…
Posted Jan 10th 2013
BIG NEWS! Twelfth Night: London “thank you” show and webcast
Twelfth Night are playing a one-off invitation-only gig in London this weekend. The show is a “thank you” to friends and family to wrap up five years of the band’s successful reunion. Read more…
Posted Dec 13th 2012
Proguphoria
The inaugural festival took place in Poole on Sat 20th October. It went well despite a few technical problems and the evening running very late, which meant that we had to cut short our set quite a bit. Read more…
Posted Nov 7th 2012
Live and Let Live
Excellent pre-orders and healthy sales at gigs have meant that this already looks like becoming our most successful Definitive Edition release. Read more…
Posted Nov 2nd 2012
Gig News
What a splendid weekend we all had at Summer’s End in Lydney. We received an excellent reaction from the 250-strong audience on the Saturday night – all of whom stayed until the end of our 1¾ hour set. Read more…
Posted Nov 1st 2012
Live and Let Live Definitive Edition
We are delighted to announce the release of our next Definitive Edition CD. Read more…
Posted Sep 2nd 2012
NEARFest Apocalypse
Thank you SO much to everyone who came to see us at NearFest. We had a truly wonderful time and we were all made to feel very welcome. There are some great pictures of all the bands taken by the official photographer Joe del Tufo, here. Read more…
Posted Jul 25th 2012
NEARFest Rehearsals
Rehearsals have started for our first ever US gig at NEARfest in June, as evidenced by the official press photo above. Now where did Roy get those trousers? Read more…
Posted May 2nd 2012
The Cryptic Clues live at The Peel
The founder members of legendary 80s prog band Twelfth Night performed together, for the first time in several years, under the pseudonym ‘Jan 14 and the Cryptic Clues’ at The Peel in Kingston-on-Thames in January. Read more…
Posted Feb 2nd 2012
Phew!
Well, what can we say? Now that the dust has settled, we can sit back and reflect on what a marvellous evening we all enjoyed in a packed Peel last Saturday. Read more…
Posted Jan 18th 2012
Live at The Target… out now!
6.1.12 was the official release date for the definitive edition of Live at the Target. We’ve got plenty of copies available for immediate dispatch if you want one. They are £11 plus postage (which is £1 for the UK, £2 elsewhere). More details are available from our merch pages. Read more…
Posted Jan 6th 2012
TN Newsletter
Just a short newsletter this time… to let you know the Live at the Target CDs arrived just before Christmas and all pre-orders have now been sent out. A BIG thank you to all those of you who asked for a copy: we hope you like it as we think it’s come out rather well… Read more…
Posted Jan 5th 2012
Live At The Target… on CD, and on stage!
We are delighted to announce that our latest Definitive Edition, Live At The Target, will be released on 6 January 2012 through F2 Records. Read more…
Posted Dec 8th 2011
New album on CD and DVD: MMX
We are delighted to announce that MMX, our first newly recorded album since 1986, will be released very soon, on both CD and DVD format, and that we are now ready to accept pre-orders for it! Read more…
Posted Oct 17th 2010
Play On!
Our reunion gigs in 2007 and 2008 have generated so much interest in Twelfth Night that hardly a day goes by when I don’t get an e-mail asking when we will be either playing some more gigs or releasing some new music or some past concert recordings. Read more…
Posted Nov 19th 2009
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