Saturday,  6 September, 1986 – Queensway Hall, Dunstable, England 

Living Too Late
City Hobgoblins
US 80s-90s
Terry Waite Sez
Riddler!
Mr Pharmacist
R.O.D.
Gut of the Quantifier
Hot Aftershave Bop
Gross Chapel – British Grenadiers
L.A,
Copped It
Cruiser’s Creek
Prole Art Threat
My New House

NOTES

74 minutes

Audience Audio Recording

Echoey cavernous hall job here with some distance between the taper and the gruppe. Most things are audible but Marks vocal is a bit lost in the hall ambience. Some limited near tape mutterings.
All tunes played with considerable energy and things get off to a good start with a Hanley-centric “Living Too Late” – when the mixing desk decide to turn Mark up he is lost in the reverb. However it sort of gets a lot worse after that with either the group not connecting or the recording completely giving the impression of same.

Notable problem with the “fills” from Simon on “US80s-90s” and the structure tends to wander. “Riddler” holds its own and is perhaps the best realised piece on the night.

Slight break down at the beginning of “Gut” perhaps best exemplifies that the team has not quite got it together.

Desultory “Hot Aftershave Bop” with rock guitar noise and oddly prominent dull bass sound.

Oddly untogether “Grosse Chapel” with I suspect a slight tuning problem on one of the guitars. “LA” suffers from audience chatter and peculiar lumpen feel with slighly flat guitar lost in a sprawl of chorus type patch. “Copped It” an unholy wall of sound lost in murk. “Cruisers” similarly is a blur of noise with some serious atonality and timing problems in places.

“Prole Art Threat” is lost in a morass of noise but appears to be most Fall like thing of the night but despite has some very odd dynamics indeed. Matters conclude with a good performance of “My New House” which has some reasonable structure to it.

Not the most pleasurable of listens and the group appears to be going through the motions somewhat, however a few highlights. There are probably better recordings of this tour.