Back of the hall audience recording of fair quality. Often interrupted by a chattering goon giving a running commentary of the proceedings.
Interesting that the band should play the same venue six days apart. The second night and the last gig of 1991 features a by the numbers run through of the recent material. Bush's swirling analogue sounds tend to dominate and initially the drums are mostly inaudible being reduced to chittering rattle underneath the bass. Smith is generally audible but the whole thing is essentially ruined by a very noisy punter near the taper who burbles away inexorably throughout.
The start of the gig seems to lack cojones and meanders along - this may be partly due to the quality of the recording which reduces Smith to a karaoke singer over a tinny backing tape. There is some degree of improvement from "Gentleman's Agreement" onwards which has a languid moody swagger to it. "Pharmacist" certainly has some bite and there is a sense that there is a little more light and shade developing, and by the time "Free Range" kicks in there is a more muscular and essentially "noisier" feel to the whole affair.
"Prinz" is its usual big mean moody and slinky self tumbling along at a fair old pace...
The rest you can file away under end of tour Xmas Ennui......as opposed to Prestwich Ennui......
Interesting that the band should play the same venue six days apart. The second night and the last gig of 1991 features a by the numbers run through of the recent material. Bush's swirling analogue sounds tend to dominate and initially the drums are mostly inaudible being reduced to chittering rattle underneath the bass. Smith is generally audible but the whole thing is essentially ruined by a very noisy punter near the taper who burbles away inexorably throughout.
The start of the gig seems to lack cojones and meanders along - this may be partly due to the quality of the recording which reduces Smith to a karaoke singer over a tinny backing tape. There is some degree of improvement from "Gentleman's Agreement" onwards which has a languid moody swagger to it. "Pharmacist" certainly has some bite and there is a sense that there is a little more light and shade developing, and by the time "Free Range" kicks in there is a more muscular and essentially "noisier" feel to the whole affair.
"Prinz" is its usual big mean moody and slinky self tumbling along at a fair old pace...
The rest you can file away under end of tour Xmas Ennui......as opposed to Prestwich Ennui......