Sunday, 12 December, 1982 – Lyceum, London, England

  1. Room to Live
  2. Garden
  3. Pilsner Trail
  4. Marquis Cha-Cha
  5. Mere Pseud Mag Ed
  6. Hexen Definitive
  7. Strife Knot
  8. I Feel Voxish
  9. Ludd Gang
  10. Tempo House
  11. Joker Hysterical Face
  12. Backdrop
  13. Solicitor in Studio
  14. Lie Dream of a Casino Soul

NOTES

73 minutes

Good audience recording.

A fine performance – I got to see the group some ten days later in the rafters of the Free Trade where they were altogether more unforgiving and hard. Rileys penultimate gig and interesting to hear the use of keyboards on Voxish/Ludd Gang for an example of how the subsequent sound would be more abstract and less obviously reliant on melodic lead. The early genesis of that 1983 sound is here tonight with an altogether more brutalist approach to material which eight months earlier was more sinuous and motorik – here is the start of something more intense and challenging.

Good sound all round with only a slight back of room feel to the overall sonic architecture.

Highly recommended.