The date is a guess on my part. This is a fairly good audience recording but gets a bit overblown in parts due I guess to the smallness of the venue and the recordist being a little to close to Yvonne's amp. Band sounds clear but Mark gets lost in the noise - which is a pity as he is in fine form. If anything Yvonne is too loud for the aforementioned reason and Martin is mostly lost in the mix. There is little apparent bass. Karl is clear throughout.

Here is a band coming to terms with itself and getting a great groove together. In comparison to the rushed punk ethic of the Spring gigs this is far more measured and an indication of the unique sound the band was creating.

Marks howl on "Mother-Sister" is memorable. Someone called William Johnson gets a mention before a tense and jittery "Like to Blow".

There is a memorable eleven minute version of "Repetition" which defies description and sets the scene for the Fall output live for the next 30 years. An intense unforgiving brain battering unrelenting hypnotic noise - it channels Can mostly and its mainly about Mark E Smith and his stream of conciousness and vocal acrobatics - but its essentially The Fall. The seeds of "And This Day" and "Blindness" are here tonight in this performance.

In characteristic behaviour the band follows with a less than two minute charge through "Ind Est".

Mark opines gnomically before a tense "Mess of my age" in which Yvonne seems to have lost the beat for the most part. This is followed by an excellent "Steppin' Out" which suffers from lack of clarity on MES's vox.

The rare "Brand New Cadillac" - which featured in the set list for a short while during this period is given a muscular seeing to. This track is officially released on CMXBX1558. It features an uncharacteristic and mercifully short guitar solo from Mr Bramah.

An exceptional "Frightened" closes the set. All of the groups dynamics are captured well here.

The crowd ask for "Music Scene" and "Bingo Master's" and are advised that "we don't do that anymore". The equipment has to warm up before a sensational "Futures and Pasts".

A great early capture spoiled by indifferent sound in parts.