City Hobgoblins
Living Too Late
Cruiser’s Creek
Lucifer Over Lancashire
Riddler!
L.A.
Hey! Luciani
Bombast
Gross Chapel – GB Grenadiers
Prole Art Threat
Hot Aftershave Bop
My New House
NOTES
Audience Audio Recording
58m
First plays for:
Lucifer over Lancashire
Riddler!
Gross Chapel -GB Grenadiers
First gig by this iteration of the band being Simon Wolstencroft’s premiere.
Starts with a constipated “Hobgoblins” and meanders into a pretty turgid “Living too late”. Things pick up with “Cruisers Creek” despite some pretty basic guitar mistakes at the beginning. “Lucifer” is excellent, the syncopation of Wolstencrofts drumming adds a slight insouciant swagger to the music. “Riddler” features some nice “Third Man” keyboard noises and guitar rattling redolent of Michael Karoli.
“LA” is taken at a fast pace with some great driven keyboard sounds….”Luciani” comes and goes (as it usually does) …”Bombast” starts with Smith in a mire of echo and launches into a manic rush of garage back-beat.
The gig is dominated by an immense reading of “Gross Chapel- British Grenadiers”. I cannot understate the magnificence of this performance where Mark literally spits the words out.
Encores include a seriously hard “Prole Art Threat” , a Hanley driven “Hot Aftershave” and a quirky and jittery “My New House”.
All in all a delightful confection and worth getting for Wolstencrofts first gig with the group.