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Five Miles Out
Release Date: March 19, 1982
Location: Denham
1. Taurus II 24:49
2. Family Man 3:45
3. Orabidoo 13:03
4. Mount Teidi 4:10
5. Five Miles Out 4:17
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Maggie Reilly - Vocals
Morris Pert - Percussion, Keyboards
Tim Cross - Keyboards
Rick Fenn - Guitars
Mike Oldfield - Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Vocals
Mike Frye - Percussion
Paddy Moloney - Uileann Pipes on 'Taurus II'
Carl Palmer - Percussion on 'Mount Teidi'
Graham Broad - Drums on 'Five Miles Out'
Strings on 'Five Miles Out' arranged by Morris Pert
and conducted by Martyn Ford
Produced and engineered by Mike Oldfield
Except 'Five Miles Out', produced and engineered by Mike Oldfield and Tom Newman
And 'Mount Teidi', produced by Mike Oldfield and engineered by Richard Mainwaring
Technical Assistant - Richard Barrie
Inner sleeve (track sheet) |
Personnel
| ▸ | Morris Pert (arranger, musician) | | Although maybe best known as a percussionist (America's Billboard magazine voted him as the no 4 Jazz and Rock percussionist in 1977), Morris Pert is also a composer, having written 3 symphonies. He later set up his own studio in his native Scotland, where he concentrated on composition and electronic music recording. As a percussionist, Morris has worked with names like Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Paul McCartney and Phil Collins. He died in 2010. Also appears in: Platinum, QE2, The Killing Fields
| | ▸ | Tom Newman (producer) | | Also appears in: Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, Platinum, Islands, Amarok, Heaven's Open, Tubular Bells II, The Songs of Distant Earth, Voyager
| | ▸ | Martyn Ford (conductor) | |
| | ▸ | Richard Manwaring (engineer) | | Engineer and producer who's worked on countless albums, including those by Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Talking Heads and Chick Corea. Also appears in: Platinum
| | ▸ | Richard Barrie (technical engineer) | | Also appears in: QE2, Islands, Earth Moving, Amarok, Heaven's Open, Tubular Bells II, The Songs of Distant Earth, Voyager
| | ▸ | Graham Broad (musician) | |
| | ▸ | Tim Cross (musician) | | Freelance musician and composer who, after studying composition and harpsichord at Dartington College of Arts, began his career writing advertising music. He met Mike through Tom Newman. Tim also collaborated with the Adverts and TV Smith, another connection he made through Tom. He died as a result of lung cancer in 2012. Also appears in: Exposed, QE2
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| | ▸ | Rick Fenn (musician) | | Was a member of band 10CC from 1976 onwards. Also played with stars such as Elkie Brooks, Cliff Richard, Rick Wakeman and Peter Green (of Fleetwood Mac fame). Produced a solo album called 'Profiles' which featured Nick Mason of Pink Floyd on drums. Also appears in: Crises, Islands
| | ▸ | Mike Frye (musician) | | Classically trained musician, who was principle percussionist for the London Symphony Orchestra. He now runs a company providing bespoke, chauffeur-driven tours of the UK. Also appears in: Exposed, QE2
| | ▸ | Paddy Moloney (musician) | | Leader of Irish folk group 'The Chieftains', which Paddy formed in 1963. Most famously, the group featured on the soundtrack to the Stanley Kubrick film 'Barry Lyndon'. Also appears in: Ommadawn, Amarok
| | ▸ | Carl Palmer (musician) | | Drummer perhaps best known as one third of Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
| | ▸ | Maggie Reilly (musician) | | Scottish singer, who rose to fame with Glasgow pop group "Joe Cool" in the early 1970s. The band then merged with another, "Up" and became funk-rock band "Cado Belle". She met Mike in 1980 via Cado Belle keyboard player Stuart MacKillop, who had been working for Abba after leaving Cado Belle. She joined Mike on his 1980 tour, then went on to record songs with him on five albums (including Crises).
In the years afterwards, Maggie went on to record with rock musicians such as Jack Bruce, George Harrison, Dave Gilmour and Nick Mason. Also appears in: QE2, Crises, Discovery, Earth Moving
| | ▸ | Gerald Coulson (cover artwork) | | A renowned aviation artist who started his career as an apprentice aircraft engineer, before becoming a Royal Air Force technician and later a British Airways engineer. He began producing technical illustrations for service manuals and, from there, moved into painting.
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Instruments
| Percussion instruments |
| Bodhrán |
18" bodhrán decorated with a St John Eagle from the Book of Kells. The bodhrán (pronounced as bough-rahn or bow-rahn) is an Irish frame drum made from goatskin, played with a beater called a tipper or cípín. A bodhrán was also used on Return To Ommadawn in 2016. |
Also used in Ommadawn, Incantations, Amarok, Voyager, Return To Ommadawn
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| Drum machines and electronic percussion |
| Linn LM-1 |
Electronic drum machine, using samples of acoustic drums |
'Linn Machine' is listed on the track sheet, and the LM-1 can be seen in the gatefold photo of his studio.
Also used in QE2
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| Electric guitars |
| 1965 Fender Telecaster |
Neck date of November 1965 (s/n L807280). This guitar used to be owned by Marc Bolan. Mike added an extra pickup - made by Bill Lawrence - to it, with the help of his dad in their garden shed. Mike later took all the finish off the guitar, leaving it as bare wood. The guitar was offered through Chandler for £20,000 but wasn’t sold. It was then to be auctioned off by Bonhams on June 20, 2007 (Lot 391) with an estimate of £25,000 - 35,000. Next attempt was on January 15, 2008 (Lot 361, estimate £10,000 - 15,000). The last attempt was made on December 16, 2009 (Lot 277, estimate £8,000 - 12,000). All attempts failed due to low bids and the guitar was withdrawn. It was sold in January 2010 by charity SANE to English guitarist Keith Smart. Video
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Shown in the photo of Mike's studio on inside of the gatefold of the LP
Also used in Tubular Bells, Ommadawn, Amarok, Tubular Bells 2003
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| 1957 Gibson Les Paul TV model |
s/n 7 2031. This guitar was modified with a 2 octave fretboard. It was bought by a Scottish fan.
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Shown in the photo of Mike's studio on inside of the gatefold of the LP
Also used in Ommadawn, Incantations, Discovery, Amarok
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| Steel-string acoustic guitars |
| Manson acoustic |
Worth £439, swapped for a Martin D-35. From c.1980.
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Also used in Crises
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| Bass guitars |
| 1960 Fender Precision Bass, blonde |
s/n 48986. Mike bought this shortly after recording Tubular Bells. He played it on the BBC Second House performance in 1974. The frets were later removed from it. Sold via Chandler Guitars in February 2006.
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Shown in the photo of Mike's studio on inside of the gatefold of the LP
Also used in Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn, Incantations, QE2
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| 1975 Zemaitis acoustic bass guitar |
Sold via Chandler Guitars in February 2008
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Shown in the photo of Mike's studio on inside of the gatefold of the LP
Also used in Ommadawn, Incantations
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| Guitar effects |
| MXR Pitch Transposer |
Blue rack unit that can often be spotted in Mike's early 80s guitar racks - e.g. on top of the rack in the Essential Mike Oldfield interview footage. Can be used for anything from subtle chorus-like detuning to extreme pitch shifts. |
On top of the mixing desk in the gatefold studio picture, so presumably used on the album.
Also used in QE2
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| Amps |
| Mesa/Boogie |
To get his distorted guitar sound from this amp, Mike overloaded the input by running the guitar through a preamp first. The sound then went into the mixer, where the input was overloaded, then through the Vocal Stresser and a parametric EQ, then a gate and a limiter. (Guitarist, 1984) |
Shown in the photo of Mike's studio on inside of the gatefold of the LP
Also used in Exposed, Discovery, Tubular Bells 2003
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| Synthesisers |
| Solina string ensemble |
String synthesiser produced by the Dutch organ company Eminent and later rebadged by ARP. It owed much of its sound to its ensemble effect, created by running the sound through three LFO-modulated delay lines. |
Also used in Ommadawn, Incantations, Platinum, QE2, Crises, Return To Ommadawn
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| Barth Musicoder |
Analogue vocoder built in the early 1980s by the R. Barth company in Hamburg, Germany. |
Seen in multiple pictures both in Mike's studio (it's on top of the Fairlight keyboard in the photo inside the LP gatefold) and on the Five Miles Out tour.
Also used in QE2
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| Sequential Circuits Prophet V |
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Also used in Platinum, QE2, Crises, Discovery
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| Loudspeakers |
| Westlake HR-1 |
Studio monitor speaker. |
Also used in Crises, Islands
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| Studio effects and outboard |
| ADR Vocal Stresser F769X-R |
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Also used in Discovery
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| Klark Teknik DN70 digital time processor |
Digital delay unit. |
Can be spotted just behind the model plane on the LP gatefold picture, as well as in pictures of Mike's touring rig at the time. |
| Tape recorders |
| Ampex ATR-124 |
2" 24 track multitrack tape recorder.
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Also used in Crises
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| Ampex Grand Master |
Recording tape. |
Also used in Earth Moving
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| Mixing desks |
| Neve 8108 with NECAM automation |
Analogue mixing desk with computer automation system. |
Also used in Crises
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| Sequencers |
| EMS Universal Sequencer |
Related to the sequencer from EMS's Synthi KS (available both on its own and as part of the Synthi AKS suitcase synthesiser/sequencer, as used by Pink Floyd and Jean Michel Jarre, amongst others). The Universal Sequencer had control voltage and gate outputs for controlling analogue synthesisers. Mike primarily used it together with his ARP 2600. According to EMS, very few of them were made. |
Shown in the photo of Mike's studio on inside of the gatefold of the LP
Also used in Incantations, Platinum, QE2
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