As You Were (Show of Hands album)

As You Were
Live album by Show of Hands
Released	2005
Recorded	3 November–5 December 2004, England
Venue	Various Bloomsbury Theatre (London, 3 November) Regal Centre (Worksop, 18 November) Theatre by the Lake (Keswick, 21 November) Landmark Theatre (Ilfracombe, 25 November) Pacific Road Arts Centre (Birkenhead, 26 November) The Lowry (Salford, 27 November) Cheltenham Town Hall (Cheltenham, 28 November) Princess Pavilion (Falmouth, 3 December) Ariel Centre (Totnes, 4 December) Manor Pavilion (Sidmouth, 5 December)
Genre	Folk English folk
Length	127:05
Label	Hands on Music
Producer	Mick Dolan
Show of Hands chronology
Country Life (2003) As You Were (2005) Witness (2006)

As You Were is the fourth live album by English acoustic roots duo Show of Hands. Following the release of their acclaimed tenth studio album Country Life in 2003, which itself was promoted by a tour, the duo were named the "Best Live Act" at the 2004 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. The live interest in the duo ultimately lead to a greater interest when the band announced their Autumn Tour 2004. The tour itself ran from November–December and included Miranda Sykes as a collaborator, her first collaboration with the duo. With the band's producer and engineer of the era Mick Dolan, the entire tour was recorded onto MiniDisc, with the duo subsequently ploughing through each concert recording the following day to identify the best performances and then collating and working through the "A list again" to find the best tracks to create the live album.

The album was released in 2005 on the duo's own record label Hands on Music. Although it was originally only sold at the duo's live performances and on their online shop, the critical success it became lead the duo to re-release it conventionally. The album was released to critical acclaim, with David Kidman of NetRhythms declaring it a "great set".^[1]