Touch Sensitive
The Joke
Way Round
Jung Nev’s Antidotes
Dr. Buck’s Letter
Hands Up Billy
F-‘Oldin’ Money
Two Librans
Sons of Temperance
Birthday Song
Hot Runes
Cyber Insekt
Ketamine Sun
The Caterer
Hey! Student
And Therein
W.B.
Ten Houses of Eve
Paintwork

NOTES

Quietish audience tape with some really annoying incessant ongoing chatter and inter-song banter from the locals. Also some initial wow and flutter on the recording I have which soon dissipates. Guitars and drums clear, bass and vocals indistinct at the start but then settles down.

Starts with a workmanlike “Touch Sensitive” – Mark not very audible – and an odd tone to Julia’s guitar which suggests some of the bottom strings are slightly out of tune. Marks vocals are normalised by the time “The Joke” kicks in – great performance. Mark gets a little indistinct again on “Way Round” but a good delivery if a little uninspired in place. “Antidotes” is excellent with some excellent drumming from Spen which gives the whole song a different feel.

A muttered “Good evening we are the Fall….but you already knew that” leads into a great laid back version of “Bucks” with some fine wah-wah guitar from Neville and some understated but potent drumming from Spen. This is a really fine version somewhat ruined by constant chatter from the crowd.

Neville is mostly inaudible on the opening few verses of “Billy” – Mark joins up quite a lot – Neville is in and out volume wise and the thing is dominated by keyboard until the guitar kicks in. Odd sporadic version with some strange keyboard swirls and constant yammering from adjacent yahoos. It beggars belief why they pay good money to go to a gig and spend most of it whittering on endlessly throughout the music.

“Foldin'” is pretty dire – guitars are out of tune – Mark goes missing for a bit and its all bit boring/listless. “Librans” continues in the same vein – Nev’s E string is seriously out of tune – Julia’s keyboard rescue things but it’s mostly un-listenable apart from the fact that you can hear Adam’s bass for a change.

A very short “Temperance” again suffering from tuning problems also ongoing very noisy chatter. Mark takes them off stage for a while and returns for a keyboard led and very excellent “Birthday Song” completely ruined by the all pervasive nattering. Fairly good reading of “Hot Runes” apart from the slight (not as bad as previous) tuning problems – some interesting visceral synth noises from Julia.

Very peculiar version of “Cyber Insekt” – nothing like the album – dominated by keyboard and a slightly different rhythm. Followed by a wonderfully languorous version of “Ketamine Sun” – worth the price of admission alone with some expressive drumming and keyboard playing plus “Post Nearly Man” quotes.

Some fairly anglo saxon language from the audience during the encore call. Great grungy version of “Student” taken at a pace with a ska beat with some scratchy guitar from Nev. Wondrous stuff.

Stripped down version of “And Therein” takes an age to get going vocal wise but when it does there are some cack handed chord changes…..rescued by a great “I pray to thee” section in the middle and then an extended noise fest on guitar. Another DAT interlude with a particularly vocal member of the audience calling upon Onan to give him deliverance.

Band reappears with an initially excellent reading of “W.B.” – stops strangely however and then starts again with some more out of tune guitar. Kicks into a suitably venomous version of “Eve” with Mark and Neville sharing vocal duties. Finishes with a fret stressed version of “Paintwork” in which there is some crowd interaction and a very good keyboard patch – the long long days are mentioned and it resolves into a sort of Rolling Stones pastiche.

An amazing mixture of superb versions of material coupled with some extremely dire realisations. Worth getting for the highlights.