Review Disc One
A dire audience recording. The sound is extremely muddy. Bush tends to dominate. Sound varies incredibly throughout
A run through of material from extant and emerging releases lost in a fog. The key distraction is that Mark is lost in the soundscape.
Somewhere between "Middle Class Revolt" and "Cerebral Caustic" there is a sense of the band repositioning itself. I guess this is Dave Bush's last gig with the band?
I am assuming that some of this material or its contemporaries appears on the "27 points". Indeed the version of "Glam Racket" is very good and sounds close to that on the official album.
When you plough through the sound wall there is quite a good gig going on here and from about half way through you get a sense of the band finding its centre around the guitars and abandoning the keyboard elements which had pervaded over the last four albums. The way Brix takes the initiative on an excellent "Feeling Numb" perhaps best describes this transition.
That "Prinz" is an exercise in cathartic excellence is perhaps the best descriptor of the onstage metamorphosis from its early 90s to mid 90s ethic. Ironic that the material comes from the height of success in the last decade but presages another high point.
The dense punk sound of "Dead Beat" with somewhat innappropriately Bush doing his Dik-Mik bits perhaps indicates that changes that would emerge in 1995.
Collectable as D Bush's last gig but the sound is pretty awful.
Review Disc Two
All of the above but minus the dire sound - this is a far superior recording - there is some minimal audience chatter and Mark sounds a little tinny but this is the one to get.