Thursday,  17 April , 1980 Electric Ballroom, London, England 

  1. C ‘n’ C (sort of?)
  2. English Scheme
  3. Fiery Jack
  4. Totally Wired
  5. City Hobgoblins
  6. Flat of Angles
  7. How I Wrote Elastic Man
  8. Rowche Rumble
  9. Impression of J. Temperance
  10. Your Heart Out
  11. Cary Grant’s Wedding
  12. Dice Man
  13. In My Area
  14. Repetition

NOTES

52:55

A couple of versions available to your reviewer. The first is slightly tinny and a little overloud at times but generally very listenable. The alternative version of same is a little muddier is missing Repetition, and combines a few of the tracks.

Immense. Hanley P’s second gig. The gruppe headline a thursday night in Camden. The transition from “Dragnet” to “Grotesque” is palpable. Smith’s disbelief in the power of his band adds a tension at the commencement – but therein after its a full blown Fall experience.

City Hobgoblins unfortunately has a considerable part of the song missing.

The opening “Cash and Carry” is a short askance comment about former tour mates “The Cramps”.

The stand out is the rare and wonderful “Cary Grant’s” which is a unrelenting and scabrous in its Fall-ness.

The rest is just a delight and despite the less than the excellent sound is an experience worth anyones 52:55.

Interesting interpolations of forthcoming lyrics in parts including Hey Student before English Scheme, and “the people I like live in kitchens and halls” (Gramme Friday), plus “Californians only think of sex (CnC-S.MIthering) in Fiery Jack

If anyone asks questions the validity of the group then this is a testament to the unrelenting noise that this group at the zenith of its powers can produce.

Words are not enough… you need to listen to this, especially the wonderfully over the top closer of Repetition.