Audience recording in a big echoey hall - notwithstanding that reasonable listening although the instrument separation is not that good. Occasional glitch but not serious
Immense slabs of atonal sound taken at a Formula One type pace. Manic pop ditties taken, broken and reconstructed as mammoth works of modern music driven by god knows how many guitars, keyboards and girly backing singers. This is all a bit special and you have to pinch yourself sometimes to make sure you are awake as it is that good.
I'm not sure what the band were on tonight but this is a simply amazing performance of intense power and precision. From the amphetamine madness of "Fiery Jack" to the muscular fallabilly of "Lucifer" (with Mark channeling the spirit of Lux Interior) via the progtastic menace of "Living too late" one is caught up in an evening of super fast Fall perfection.
And just listen to the opening session of "Boorman" - you can hear the genesis of the "Blindness" riff in its opening rising notes and tumbling rhythm. A dense and penetrating assault of repressed sexual tension careering into the hyperactive "Bombast" leaves this listener breathless. And it do not think I've heard "US 80s90s" played with as much cohones as this - fast and scabrous (and possibly bulbous). "Luciani" is Van Der Graaf era "Godbluff" in all but vocals. "Damo" is exemplary - layers of sensuous and lush contrapuntal noise - and when the drums begin well.....playful, exciting and memorable.
"Ghost" is a surging speedy organ dominated escalator ride. "R.O.D." is faster still adopting a rockier pose than the album version - the band almost catches up with itself on this. The chorus is sublime - the glitter band drumming excellent. And then a garage yelp from the Pharmacist into a ridiculously fast "Cruisers" even Marks intro is hurried - pure madness! And then an equally maddeningly overdriven "LA" where the band almost loses it completely.
Finally this exhausting tumble of noise draws to an end with "Gremlins know these things - tap - tap -tap".......at night in peace indeed.
The only downside is the recording - oh for a soundboard of this one!.
Highly recommended.
Immense slabs of atonal sound taken at a Formula One type pace. Manic pop ditties taken, broken and reconstructed as mammoth works of modern music driven by god knows how many guitars, keyboards and girly backing singers. This is all a bit special and you have to pinch yourself sometimes to make sure you are awake as it is that good.
I'm not sure what the band were on tonight but this is a simply amazing performance of intense power and precision. From the amphetamine madness of "Fiery Jack" to the muscular fallabilly of "Lucifer" (with Mark channeling the spirit of Lux Interior) via the progtastic menace of "Living too late" one is caught up in an evening of super fast Fall perfection.
And just listen to the opening session of "Boorman" - you can hear the genesis of the "Blindness" riff in its opening rising notes and tumbling rhythm. A dense and penetrating assault of repressed sexual tension careering into the hyperactive "Bombast" leaves this listener breathless. And it do not think I've heard "US 80s90s" played with as much cohones as this - fast and scabrous (and possibly bulbous). "Luciani" is Van Der Graaf era "Godbluff" in all but vocals. "Damo" is exemplary - layers of sensuous and lush contrapuntal noise - and when the drums begin well.....playful, exciting and memorable.
"Ghost" is a surging speedy organ dominated escalator ride. "R.O.D." is faster still adopting a rockier pose than the album version - the band almost catches up with itself on this. The chorus is sublime - the glitter band drumming excellent. And then a garage yelp from the Pharmacist into a ridiculously fast "Cruisers" even Marks intro is hurried - pure madness! And then an equally maddeningly overdriven "LA" where the band almost loses it completely.
Finally this exhausting tumble of noise draws to an end with "Gremlins know these things - tap - tap -tap".......at night in peace indeed.
The only downside is the recording - oh for a soundboard of this one!.
Highly recommended.