Features the line up of:

Micky “Delay-lay-lay-lay" Jones
Deke “Slide Around a bit" Leonard
Martin “Prince Amongst Bass Players" Ace
John “The Beast" Weathers

Tracklist:

C’Mon
What A Night
Even Visionaries Go Blind
Long Holiday
Talk About A Morning
Last Birthday Party
Jumpin’ Like A Kangaroo
Back Together Again
A Hard Way To Die
The Ride & The View
Perfect Strangers
Asylum
A Hard Way To Live
Many Are Called But Few Get Up

This CD is a first generation soundboard recording which has been digitally cleaned up and restored for release on CD. We felt this would be a worthwhile release as a lot of these songs have never been released in live form previously and two of them “Long Holiday” and “Back Together Again” never been released at all on CD before.

The recording is also interesting as it shows the band on the older songs starting to stretch out a bit in comparison to trimmed down versions on the 1983 Marquee/Reading recordings. The slide intro to Ride and The View is starting to develop, “The Storm Interlude” makes an appearance in MACBFGU and Micky is starting to experiment more with delay in the middle section of “C’Mon” (as he also does elsewhere on this recording).

As was common with this line up the songs are played faster and harder than by previous and subsequent lineups of the group. MACBFGU in particular is played at a notably faster pace than other live versions available.

The gig is on the bands home turf or as Deke puts it "back in civilisation" at the now demolished Crosskeys Institute in South Wales. The CD features the whole gig apart from the encore which apart from a minute or so of “Bananas” was not recorded.

mp3s

last birthday party (2.6Mb)

what a night (1.5Mb)

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