a version of it for his own projects. The original instrumental version was recorded, and the positive reaction from various people encouraged Phillips to include it on his next Private Parts & Pieces album. It was recorded at Send Barns in July 1980. "Dawn over the Lake" was recorded in March 1981. It is more experimental and improvisational that was recorded in a more spontaneous manner, with Phillips playing his 12-string guitar with unusual tuning with a Roland drum machine. He had set the machine to produce a straightforward rock drum pattern, but slowed it down to the point where it "doesn't sound like that at all". Phillips developed the track with no set intention on including it on the album. "I was just mucking around, so the track itself is edited down and the edits are not perfect but I think it's strongly atmospheric." Upon the album's release he was worried that the piece ran too long. Side two "Bouncer" was recorded in June 1982 when Phillips had relocated from Surrey to London, and was recording Invisible Men. It was originally intended for that album, as with "Sistine", but they were left off because Phillips felt they "didn't fit in". It was put together in the studio on his own one morning before he had breakfast. Conversely, "Eduardo" was completed during Phillips's last days while living near Woking, and features his 8-string Rudloff guitar. "Heart of Darkness" and "The Sea and the Armadillo" were also put down during this period. Extra material The 1990, 2012, and 2015 reissues of A Catch at the Tables include previously unreleased material. "Erotic Strings" dates from 1985, and was originally written as incidental music for the play Tropical Moon over Dorking which starred actress Pauline Collins. "A Catch at the Tables" was recorded at his London studio named Vic's Place and completed in 1990 after Phillips had decided not to have a title track on the album, but wrote it for the 1990 reissue. It was named after the front cover painting by Ed Tanner. Phillips revealed that its actual title is "A Catch for the Tables" but he had misheard Tanner, but also thought the "at" added some mystery to the title as well as a double entendre with casinos at Monte Carlo which is also depicted in Tanner's painting. Release A Catch at the Tables was released in April 1984 by