A good quality audience recording with all instruments being well represented. Vocals are very clear.
This was a quiet year gig-wise. Just over 25 dates played and therefore any selection from 1991 is always worth a good look.
Tuesday night in Manchesters' Ritz - better known, at the time by local youths as a place to "grab a granny" rather than somewhere to hear a gig. This venue is now one of the key clubbing venues of the burgeoning 24 hour party people of regenerated City Centre Manchester. This was an interesting venue with the then highly trendy Hacienda a couple of minutes walk away...possibly also a good move as the notorious venue had suffered gang related violence a couple of months earlier when six doormen had been stabbed.
In any event the crowd seems to be enjoying this excellent gig.
A remarkable opening tape more akin to early Cabaret Voltaire than the Fall with its noise samples, phased percussion and vocal utterances.
Nestling as it does between "Shiftwork" and "Code:Selfish" the gig reflects material from those two albums but is dominated by "Shiftwork" cuts. The opening "Time enough at last" is laconic and measured until Smith yelps "We are the Fall" towards the end and the pace picks up. "Idiot Joy Showland" is delivered with driving bile and the gig follows that sort of pattern throughout. This incarnation of the band seemed to be able to move from plangent ballads to driving rock and then to punk thrashes with apparent ease.
For a record of the band in the transition between the two early 90s albums this is a fine addition to any Fallophiles collection.
This was a quiet year gig-wise. Just over 25 dates played and therefore any selection from 1991 is always worth a good look.
Tuesday night in Manchesters' Ritz - better known, at the time by local youths as a place to "grab a granny" rather than somewhere to hear a gig. This venue is now one of the key clubbing venues of the burgeoning 24 hour party people of regenerated City Centre Manchester. This was an interesting venue with the then highly trendy Hacienda a couple of minutes walk away...possibly also a good move as the notorious venue had suffered gang related violence a couple of months earlier when six doormen had been stabbed.
In any event the crowd seems to be enjoying this excellent gig.
A remarkable opening tape more akin to early Cabaret Voltaire than the Fall with its noise samples, phased percussion and vocal utterances.
Nestling as it does between "Shiftwork" and "Code:Selfish" the gig reflects material from those two albums but is dominated by "Shiftwork" cuts. The opening "Time enough at last" is laconic and measured until Smith yelps "We are the Fall" towards the end and the pace picks up. "Idiot Joy Showland" is delivered with driving bile and the gig follows that sort of pattern throughout. This incarnation of the band seemed to be able to move from plangent ballads to driving rock and then to punk thrashes with apparent ease.
For a record of the band in the transition between the two early 90s albums this is a fine addition to any Fallophiles collection.