| Sky Five Live | |
| Type: | Live |
| Artist: | Sky |
| Cover: | SKY_Five_Live_Album.jpg |
| Released: | 14 January 1983[1] |
| Genre: | Progressive rock |
| Length: | 96:11 |
| Label: | Ariola |
| Producer: | Sky, Tony Clark, Haydn Bendall |
| Prev Title: | Sky 4: Forthcoming |
| Prev Year: | 1982 |
| Next Title: | Cadmium |
| Next Year: | 1983 |
Sky Five Live is a two-record album by Sky recorded live at The Comedy Theatre & The Concert Hall, Melbourne, The Concert Hall, Perth, The Festival Theatre, Adelaide and The Capitol Theatre, Sydney. It was mixed at Studio 3, EMI Abbey Road, London and mastered by Nick Webb.[2] It was released in January 1983 on the Ariola record label. Unlike most live albums, the majority of the tracks included on this release are new, with only four tracks having been previously released ("Dance of the Little Fairies", "Sahara" and "Hotta", all on Sky 2, and "Meheeco", on Sky 3), all of them in shorter and generally very different versions from the ones featured here.
In 2015, Esoteric Recordings continued a schedule of remasters and expanded releases with this recording.
Side 1 – 26:15
Side 2 – 19:46
Side 3 – 27:20
Side 4 – 22:50
Drums, Percussion (Premier Drum Kit, Müsser Marimba, Waterphone)
Guitars (Gibson L5S, Fender Stratocaster, Ovation Classical, Ovation Folklore, AMD Digital delay unit)
Keyboards (Acoustic Grand Piano, William De Blaise 2 Manual Harpsichord, Yamaha GS1 Grand Synthesiser, Oberheim OBXA Polyphonic Synthesiser, Korg 3XC Organ, Yamaha CS01/BC3 Monophonic Synthesiser ("Gobsynth"), Acoustic Piano/Roland JP8 interface system (used on 'Hotta' and 'Meheeco') and Harpsichord/Oberheim OBXA interface system (used on 'The Animals', 'Love Duet' and 'Dance of the Little Fairies': Developed by Andrew Jones)
Bass (Mrs. Flowers Basses, Old Blue Fender bass guitar with five-year-old black tape (nylon) wound Rotosound strings, String Bass)
Guitar (Takamine Hirade: model E9)