Procol Harum

Beyond
the Pale

Procol Harum's European Tour, 2002

A summary survey of the songs the band played

In the darkness of the Vega auditorium a Danish fan asked me, 'Why do you write down the set? Does it vary from night to night?' Well yes, it does, and this table shows exactly how often – and where in the set schedule – particular songs cropped up on the Summer European Tour, 2002, at the gigs scheduled for Newcastle (cancelled), Croydon, Silkeborg, Copenhagen, Zoetermeer, Katowice and Bramhall (the mooted gig in Indonesia, incidentally, never took place). It would be fair to say that there are some surprises in what follows.

Procol Harum played 109 songs over six nights, averaging just over eighteen songs per gig: every album they've ever released was represented. 31 different numbers were played: six occurred once only [A Christmas Camel, Memorial Drive, A Rum Tale, Fires (Which Burnt Brightly), and the non-originals, Imagine, and No Woman No Cry]; six occurred twice only [Seem to Have the Blues (Most All of the Time), Conquistador, Shine on Brightly, Still There'll Be More, Piggy Pig Pig, Harlequin]; and four were played thrice [Whaling Stories, Bringing Home the Bacon, Typewriter Torment, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle]

Four numbers were heard four times [Repent Walpurgis, Magdalene (My Regal Zonophone), Wizard Man, The King of Hearts]. Three were played five times [A Salty Dog, Grand Hotel, Monsieur R Monde] and eight songs featured every night [A Whiter Shade of Pale, Homburg, She Wandered Through the Garden Fence, Beyond the Pale, As Strong as Samson, Pandora's Box, Ten Thousand Souls aka An (Old) English Dream, Theme from 'Separation']

The table below lists the tour's Procol songs (principally in order of release) specifying their sources. The column of green figures shows how often the song was played, and the red figures show not the frequency but the position of the song in the setlist of the gig named at the head of each column.

Source	Song	Qty	Croy 20	Silk 16	Cope 19	Zoet 20	Kato 20	Bram 14
Single	A Whiter Shade of Pale	6	19	16	19	17	19	14
Single	Homburg	6	6	3	3	3	3	3
1967 out-take	Seem to Have the Blues (Most All of the Time)	2	9					8
Procol Harum 1967	Conquistador	2		14			15
Procol Harum 1967	She Wandered Through the Garden Fence	6	13	6	7	6	6	6
Procol Harum 1967	A Christmas Camel	1				15
Procol Harum 1967	Repent Walpurgis	4	20		18	20	20
Shine on Brightly	Shine on Brightly	2				16	14
Shine On Brightly	Magdalene (My Regal Zonophone)	4	4		4	7	5
A Salty Dog	A Salty Dog	5		12	16	14	9	7
Home	Still There'll Be More	2		8	10
Home	Piggy Pig Pig	2	2				13
Home	Whaling Stories	3	14	9			7
Broken Barricades	Memorial Drive	1				11
Grand Hotel	Grand Hotel	5		15	13	12	16	12
Grand Hotel	A Rum Tale	1	12
Grand Hotel	Bringing Home the Bacon	3	1				1	1
Grand Hotel	Fires (Which Burnt Brightly)	1						5
Exotic Birds and Fruit	Beyond the Pale	6	18	11	14	13	17	11
Exotic Birds and Fruit	As Strong as Samson	6	8	13	17	19	18	13
Exotic Birds and Fruit	Monsieur R Monde	5	15	4	5	4	4
Procol's Ninth	Pandora's Box	6	3	2	2	2	2	2
Procol's Ninth	Typewriter Torment	3			9		10	4
Something Magic	Wizard Man	4	11		12	8	11
The Prodigal Stranger	The Hand that Rocks the Cradle	3		1	1	1
The Prodigal Stranger	The King of Hearts	4	7	5	6	5
New song	Ten Thousand Souls aka An (Old) English Dream	6	17	7	8	9	8	9
New to repertoire	Harlequin	2	5		15
New to Repertoire	Separation	6	16	10	11	10	12	10
Lennon	Imagine	1	10
Marley	No Woman No Cry	1				18

31	Different songs	4	From Procol Harum	2	from Shine on Brightly
1	From A Salty Dog	3	From Home	1	from Broken Barricades
4	From Grand Hotel	3	From Exotic Birds and Fruit	2	from Procol's Ninth
1	From Something Magic	2	From The Prodigal Stranger	6	non-album tracks
2	Non-originals	This table shows how many different songs from each source were played on the tour.

109	Songs altogether	13	From Procol Harum	6	from Shine on Brightly
5	From A Salty Dog	7	From Home	1	from Broken Barricades
10	From Grand Hotel	17	From Exotic Birds and Fruit	9	from Procol's Ninth
4	From Something Magic	7	From The Prodigal Stranger	28	non-album tracks
2	Non-originals	This table indicates how many of the tour's song-performances originated with each source.

Have a look at BtP's list of set-lists

Procol Harum concerts in 2002: index page