Wednesday, 19 May, 1982 – Social Club, Burnley Football Club, Burnley, England

  1. I’m into C.B.
  2. Jazzed up Punk Shit
  3. Joker Hysterical Face
  4. Tempo House
  5. Middle Mass
  6. Backdrop
  7. Deer Park
  8. Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
  9. Hexen Definitive
  10. Session Musician
  11. Just Step Sideways
  12. Flat of Angles

NOTES

Final performances of Jazzed Up Punk Shit and Session Musician.

Up into the hills for what must be one of the most unique venues I have ever seen The Fall in. A fascinating set list with the “oldie” Session Musician being dragged out of 1979 for it’s final outing. Mark says “not many here” at the start and he’s right, a half full room in what could be best described as WMC conditions.

Half way through the set I went to the bar where one punter was opining “the band is great but the singer is awful….”.

A couple of weeks later the Pope would address 200,000 people in Heaton Park, Manchester and in June/July the group would record “Room to Live” – well some of them would. Subsequently preparations were underway for a massive tour to Australia, initially without Karl Burns whose passport had gone astray.