- Jumper Clown
- Printhead
- Mess of My
- Various Times
- No Xmas for John Quays
- It’s the New Thing
- Two Steps Back
- Pop Stickers (aka Let’s)
- Psycho Mafia
- A Figure Walks
- Before the Moon Falls
- Underground Medicin
- Music Scene.
NOTES
Last four songs not available.
Listed as the Lyceum on recordings but Gang of Four, The Mekons and Specials played that venue on that date.
Final performances of Jumper Clown, It’s the New Thing, Music Scene and Pop Stickers (aka Let’s) – before it morphed into Choc-Stock.
Tolerable, just, audience audio. Some minimal audience noise but generally just a poor back of the hall recording.
Important, as this is the first available recording of the post Bramah line-up. Nine gigs in and an altogether different Fall is emerging with more attention to a blanket of sound than the previous spidery Bramah guitar lead. This must have been quite challenging at the time as even the Witch Trials material is shifted into a different phase.
Pawlett’s keyboard used as an atonal wash of riff noise rather a second melody instrument, or to play simple understated lines under the guitars. Scanlon’s second guitar clearly adds a great deal more colour. Riley, I assume, takes some lead parts (eg Two Steps Back) but generally its a wash of two guitars relentlessly scribbling. Leighs bubbling drums are marvellous and at complete odds to the extant scene. Two steps back is indeed magnificent, a rancorous wall of noise interweaving guitars and merciless drums.
The rare “Let’s” is mostly lost in the poor sound but seems somewhat out of place in the sound that surrounds it – there are some seriously naff notes played here in some sort of strange repetitive middle eight riff which appears to annoy one section of the crowd.
If you can sit through the poor recording then you can appreciate a group transcending into something