Issued just two months after the previous album, Live at the Padget Rooms, Penarth, it features a radically different line-up.

This is the only studio album by this particular line-up, which also recorded the live Christmas at the Patti before Clive John left again.

The country was shown as an island, separated from England by a large channel of water, and being pushed away from her neighbour by ten men using long poles.

Due to the complications of a previous publishing contract, newly arrived bassist Will Youatt did not appear in the writing credits despite allegedly making a significant contribution to the songs.

All songs composed by Micky Jones, Phil Ryan, Terry Williams and Clive John.