Tuesday, 30 October, 1984 – Lyceum, London, England

No Bulbs
God Box
The Classical
Elves
Fortress
Clear Off
Smile
Copped It
Slang King
2 x 4
Pat Trip Dispenser
Lay of the Land
Stephen Song
Hey! Marc Riley

NOTES

75 minutes

Support – The Folk Devils, The Membranes

“A bitter and twisted bill, culminating in the bile bomb of “Hey! Marc Riley” with Brix as keen as Mark to put to boot in a 4 minute blob of viciousness.” Bob Stow

“The wall of rhythm generated by the Hanleys and the great and loyal Karl Burns is huge and brutal. Craig Scanlon and Brix Smith drill shockingly harsh metallic guitars into the heart of the beast. Where the babblings of the “wordSmith” used to be a constituent part of an urban guerilla cell – mercurial, fragmented, chancy – they now find themselves riding atop Krupp’s wet dream, a black, invincible war machine. The noise is crude, cruel, inescapable and authoritarian. Smith has always been a lucky bastard, chucking his writing bag of words into the music like a carcass into a set of propellers, to watch the results spin off not as gore and offal, but diamonds, a tour de force of inexplicable sorcery. (Danny Kelly, “H.E.L.P.!: The Fall, London Lyceum,” NME, 10 November 1984, p. 46.)