Friday, 12 December, 1980 – Acklam Hall, London, England

  1. Middle Mass
  2. English Scheme
  3. Draygo’s Guilt
  4. The Container Drivers
  5. An Older Lover etc
  6. Slates, Slags, etc.
  7. Jawbone and the Air Rifle
  8. How I Wrote Elastic Man
  9. In My Area
  10. Prole Art Threat
  11. C ‘n’ C
  12. S. Mithering
  13. Pay Your Rates
  14. Leave the Capital
  15. New Face in Hell
  16. Impression of J. Temperance

NOTES

58 minutes

Final performance of In My Area

Goodish audience recording.

Support for the night was The Hamsters who were supposed to by supporting both nights but drummer Steven Middlehurst was ill.

Bears comparison of course with the officially released artefact from the night before. Not as well recorded but just as spiky and in your face as the “legendary chaos tapes”. Group appears to be enjoying itself with bravura performances of the extant material.

Notable for the extended section of banter between Smith, audience and Riley before “Draygo’s” where MES opines drily that Riley’s attempt at humour is not quite up to scratch. MES also explains that buildings on Dragnet and Elastic Man covers got knocked down some after release of said albums.

I was particularly struck by the swaggering blues feel to “Cash and Carry” and the strange psychedelic feel to “New Face”.

Well worth a listen