| Patience | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Peter Hammill |
| Cover: | Peter Hammill Patience.jpg |
| Released: | 19 August 1983[1] |
| Recorded: | December 1982 |
| Studio: | Crescent Studios, Bath |
| Genre: | Art rock |
| Label: | Naive |
| Producer: | Peter Hammill |
| Prev Title: | Loops and Reels |
| Prev Year: | 1983 |
| Next Title: | The Love Songs |
| Next Year: | 1984 |
Patience is the 13th studio album by Peter Hammill. It was released in August 1983 on Naive Records, a label founded by Gordian Troeller, the former manager of Hammill's band Van der Graaf Generator. It was remastered in 1991 and released on Fie! Records. It was the second album to feature the collective known as the “K Group” (the first was Enter K) - Hammill, drummer Guy Evans and bassist Nic Potter (Hammill's former colleagues in VdGG), and guitarist John Ellis (of The Vibrators and Peter Gabriel’s band).
Patience reached #15 in the UK Indie Chart.[2]
The members of K Group adopted aliases during their time in the band. Hammill was known as "K", Evans was known as "Brain", Ellis was known as "Fury" and Potter was known as "Mozart".
"Patient", "Traintime" and "Comfortable" have all been played regularly by Hammill in live performance in later years.
"Just Good Friends" was re-worked for Hammill's 1984 album The Love Songs.
All songs written by Peter Hammill.