Very good audience capture for its age. Everything is very clear.
The first gig of line-up #11 due to the "loss" of Yvonne Pawlett that very morning. The band would enter Cargo Studios in Rochdale four days later to record the "Dragnet" album. The mutation from the early punk ethos now fully complete to create the early Fall garage noise. Mark introduces the songs and provides quite a bit of inter-song narrative!
This is an exceptional performance of a band trying very hard to stamp its schema on a diffident and wasted extant music scene.
Some wordplay kicks off "Before the Moon falls" which leads to a gig interspersed with the new material. The duelling guitars on "In my area" are a revelation. Stunning bass from Hanley on "Rowche" defies description. Lyrics from "Spector vs Rector" presage and interpolate a muscular/angry "Psycho" which is probably the highlight of a very fine gig indeed
"We lost our keyboard player this morning, so this is for her" introduces a brash and vituperous "Rebellious Jukebox". "Heart Out" is nearly perfect as is "Dice Man" and Mark is suitably arch when introducing "Various Times" he suggests "even our record company is changing its name to "Step Backwards"".
We get the heavy metal recorded in the back bar of "The Dog and Bucket" in Heckmondwike version of "John Quays" which would clear the palate of the most jaded lotus eater with its abrasive noise fest. Compare this with the hypnotic rumble of "Dancehall" which offers a sensuous journey into a parallel cosmos.
Mark sings accapella to introduce "Put Away", urges Marc to play, tells the Londoners that their "city is dead" and then launches into a protean version full of dynamics.
So in essence you get the whole of the Dragnet album net of "Flat of Angles" and "Spector vs Rector" just before its recording. Excellent stuff, well recorded and a definate one for any collection.
The first gig of line-up #11 due to the "loss" of Yvonne Pawlett that very morning. The band would enter Cargo Studios in Rochdale four days later to record the "Dragnet" album. The mutation from the early punk ethos now fully complete to create the early Fall garage noise. Mark introduces the songs and provides quite a bit of inter-song narrative!
This is an exceptional performance of a band trying very hard to stamp its schema on a diffident and wasted extant music scene.
Some wordplay kicks off "Before the Moon falls" which leads to a gig interspersed with the new material. The duelling guitars on "In my area" are a revelation. Stunning bass from Hanley on "Rowche" defies description. Lyrics from "Spector vs Rector" presage and interpolate a muscular/angry "Psycho" which is probably the highlight of a very fine gig indeed
"We lost our keyboard player this morning, so this is for her" introduces a brash and vituperous "Rebellious Jukebox". "Heart Out" is nearly perfect as is "Dice Man" and Mark is suitably arch when introducing "Various Times" he suggests "even our record company is changing its name to "Step Backwards"".
We get the heavy metal recorded in the back bar of "The Dog and Bucket" in Heckmondwike version of "John Quays" which would clear the palate of the most jaded lotus eater with its abrasive noise fest. Compare this with the hypnotic rumble of "Dancehall" which offers a sensuous journey into a parallel cosmos.
Mark sings accapella to introduce "Put Away", urges Marc to play, tells the Londoners that their "city is dead" and then launches into a protean version full of dynamics.
So in essence you get the whole of the Dragnet album net of "Flat of Angles" and "Spector vs Rector" just before its recording. Excellent stuff, well recorded and a definate one for any collection.