Monday, 14 February, 1983 – Effenaar, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  1. The Classical
  2. Words of Expectation
  3. And This Day
  4. Hexen Definitive
  5. Strife Knot
  6. Solicitor in Studio
  7. Ludd Gang
  8. Tempo House
  9. Kicker Conspiracy
  10. Backdrop
  11. Room to Live
  12. Pilsner Trail

NOTES

80 minutes

Exceptionally good. Appears to be a soundboard.

Penultimate gig of the early ’83 tour of The Netherlands. The only relatively new track is “Ludd Gang”.

Intense and expansive performances throughout with some of the bands most unforgiving material being gathered in an opening massive 46 minute block of perfection. From a tense “Classical” to the excellent “Solicitor” this is the band at its most expressive in this stripped down form.

“Ludd Gang” is a magnificent piece of group interplay with an excellent piece of extemporised free form poetical stuff from Mark in a band less coda leading to a charged and funky “Tempo” which acts a short relief from the intensity before embarking on a final fifteen minutes of equally breathless intensity as the opening portion of the gig. Can you do “Backdrop” without keyboards? Of course you can. You see you have the genius of Craig Scanlon who appears to be able to conjour a blanket of reptilian sound from his guitar as Karl and Paul throw bombs and Paul holds the melody of the riff. On the edge of something brilliant here dear readers.

A battering ram of percussion, grungy bass and clattering guitar. Amazing.