The Fall

666 Club
Fennel Street
Manchester
UK

15th May 1982

AUD (Trax 1, 2, 9-12)
SBD (Trax 3-8)

Further source details unknown > low gen analog
Transfer: low gen analog > BBE > Audacity (volume adjustments and editing as noted below) > WAV > CDWAVE (track)
Transfer and tracking: Scott Simpson

Received as tracked wav from Scott Simpson, December 2016
> TLH (flac, checksum)


01 The Man Whose Head Expanded
02 Session Musician
03 Look, Know
04 Middle Mass
05 Jazzed up Punk Shit
06 Solicitor in Studio
07 New Puritan
08 Just Step Sideways
09 Tempo House
10 Fantastic Life
11 Mere Pseud Mag Ed
12 Backdrop

Running time [90:21]


Thanks to the Manchester District Music Archive for the flyer.

- "God save us from the Space Wars"
- "The (...) smiling (goon) wants a little bit of loving." (before "Session Musician")
- "You can see from the bit that his hair (...) been down that road before. And his broken teeth. Don't strike me, you!" (before "Middle Mass")
- "The backdrop shifted until (none) of the group didn't know what song it was. Thought it was 'Good Times'." (during "Backdrop")


Scott Simpson notes:

Unusual because of its length. Over 90 minutes.

Trax 1, 2, 9-12 from audience tape, middle six trax from mixing desk.
Obviously trax 3-8 are fine and a keeper.

Audience is problematic. Most likely taped with mic with limiter on, so  there is NO dynamic range. I shaved down the audience volume between songs if only to find waypoints to split it.

Also just a bucket of mud. I ended up turning the low end all the way down just to hear everything else.  

So now it’s passable, but a far cry below everything else I’ve transferred.  But more jazzy and improv than you’re likely to hear elsewhere. A very loose concert.



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December 2016