“It seemed to be that every time there was a full moon it was happening. There was rustling and scraping at the window. Pete and I had these awful visions in the night where we’d wake up and think there were ghosts in the room. You wouldn’t sense they were in there, they just suddenly appeared. It was a really nice barn, a great place to write, but it was a bit strange,” Latimer recalls. “We were writing in this place out near Dorking somewhere. Wistfully recalling a very satisfying time for the whole band, Latimer notes the enormous rush of creative fervour Camel were enjoying at that point, buoyed by their recent success.ĭoing their best to ignore pressure to conjure another chart-conquering masterpiece, Latimer and Bardens disappeared into deepest, darkest Surrey to get the compositional ball rolling. “Because of the success of The Snow Goose, it was a bit like, ‘Oh God, what are we going to do next?’ Probably because none of us were that sensible, we just said, ‘We want to do something totally different!’ We should’ve really just done the Son Of Snow Goose, but instead we decided to do something completely different.”Īdmirably resistant to the notion of repeating themselves, chief composers Latimer and Bardens began to pool their ideas for the next album. “Oh yes, we were all in a bit of a quandary about it,” he chuckles. Thinking back to those heady post‑ Snow Goose days, Latimer admits to Prog that there was no clear plan to follow as the band embarked on the follow-up to their breakthrough album. As a result, Latimer and his present-day comrades have spent a lot of time thinking about and dissecting the album that, for many fans, best defines the Camel sound. Fast forward to 2018 and the current Camel line-up are out on the road again, revisiting Moonmadness in its entirety onstage. Released in March 1976, just in time for that year’s now legendarily drought-ravaged summer, Moonmadness was the ultimate showcase for the classic Camel line-up of Latimer, keyboard player Peter Bardens, bassist Doug Ferguson and drummer Andy Ward.
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