Passable audience capture. Very little close audience noise. Some tracks are cut due to inept tape finger syndrome.
Well nose pickers this is a good 'un. The massive May-July tour of '81 is of course well recorded and indeed "Your Heart Out" from this gig appears on the "Expanded" version of "A part of America Therein". Not that this snippet of information in any way should divert you from tracking down this little beauty. Here is a band well into a tour showing some extreme tightness, and confidence in their material.
"Good evening, we are The Fall from Manchester...here is a little cabaret number to cheer everyone up..." says Mark with characteristic reverse psychology. "In Edinburgh I stayed on my own for a while" sticks out as a chilling rasputarian iconography of the Bard of Sedgley Park.
After worrying the audience into dumb silence for ten minutes the band add another 8 minutes of intense reportage on the state of those with substance abuse problems at Winterfest. Mark improvises quite freely here as Riley hammers out atonal chords with some aplomb. The perky poppy "Heart Out" seems somewhat alien in this company, albeit that it is a great reading.
Matters get a little more intense with a chilling reading of "Hip Priest" and a tensioned filled early version of "Deer Park".
In between all of this and beyond there are memorable readings of extant material. A well above average performance concluding with a memorably repetitious and brain scouring reading of "Stop Mithering". A "treatise to explain these" indeed with some great variation. It morphs into a suitably chastening version of "Gramme Friday".
Highly recommended to those of you who like to wear flares.
Well nose pickers this is a good 'un. The massive May-July tour of '81 is of course well recorded and indeed "Your Heart Out" from this gig appears on the "Expanded" version of "A part of America Therein". Not that this snippet of information in any way should divert you from tracking down this little beauty. Here is a band well into a tour showing some extreme tightness, and confidence in their material.
"Good evening, we are The Fall from Manchester...here is a little cabaret number to cheer everyone up..." says Mark with characteristic reverse psychology. "In Edinburgh I stayed on my own for a while" sticks out as a chilling rasputarian iconography of the Bard of Sedgley Park.
After worrying the audience into dumb silence for ten minutes the band add another 8 minutes of intense reportage on the state of those with substance abuse problems at Winterfest. Mark improvises quite freely here as Riley hammers out atonal chords with some aplomb. The perky poppy "Heart Out" seems somewhat alien in this company, albeit that it is a great reading.
Matters get a little more intense with a chilling reading of "Hip Priest" and a tensioned filled early version of "Deer Park".
In between all of this and beyond there are memorable readings of extant material. A well above average performance concluding with a memorably repetitious and brain scouring reading of "Stop Mithering". A "treatise to explain these" indeed with some great variation. It morphs into a suitably chastening version of "Gramme Friday".
Highly recommended to those of you who like to wear flares.