- Slates, Slags, etc.
- In My Area
- The Container Drivers
- The N.W.R.A.
- Totally Wired
- An Older Lover etc
- Pay Your Rates
- City Hobgoblins
- New Face in Hell
- 2nd Dark Age
- Jawbone and the Air Rifle
- Underground Medicin
- Muzorewi’s Daughter
- English Scheme
NOTES
44 minutes
A short set as this was an “extravaganza” for City Fun with other supports listed on the flier below.
An irritatingly average recording of what sounds like an excellent gig.
The debut,albeit short,of “Slates, Slags etc” and “An Older Lover etc” revealing the emergent material that would consist the Slates 10″.
MES seems ironically deprecating throughout – describing “In my area” as a load of crap for example – making the above quoted comment about half way through the song.
His mood is mot helped I would guess by an incident during “The N.W.R.A.” where an audience member launches a beer can which hits MES resulting in a reported Smithy audience invasion and retribution against said protagonist. No one is safe tonight and Liverpool bands get similar short shrift, albeit verbal.
Unfortunately the last two reported tracks are missing on my version.
Well worth a listen to assess the transition between Grotesque and Slates.