Thursday, 1 March, 1990 – Arts Centre, Poole, England 

Soundcheck :

Extricate

Gig:

Theme from Error-Orrori
Jerusalem
Sing! Harpy
I’m Frank
Telephone Thing
Hilary
Hit the North
Bill Is Dead
Black Monk Theme
Deadbeat Descendant
Popcorn Double Feature
Bremen Nacht
The Littlest Rebel
Victoria
Chicago Now
Mr. Pharmacist

NOTES

61 minutes

Audience recording

Somewhat annoying this one. A cracking gig by the feel of it bit the sound is a tad poor. It feels like the taper did it from the lobby outside the venue. Everything is a bit too distant – a reasonable listen but the impact is lost in a wider hall ambience. The audience is a distant cipher.

The gig kicks off a remarkable year volume wise for The Fall’s live output dwarfing the preceding and following years in the canon by some considerable distance.

Ostensibly the almost continuous touring was to promote the extant new album “Extricate”. Also the largest live Fall line-up to date with the addition of studio supports Brady and Bill to fill out an already pretty busy soundscape.

The band seems in fine form – concentrating for the most part on the new album – with a few nods forward and back. The centre piece is a glorious rendition of “Bill is Dead”. The pre-encore “Bremen Nacht” is also pretty special.

Other than that there are some excellent renditions of material from the new album and some fairly speedy run throughs of the late 80s material.

Other notables are the first performances of Brady and Bill live with the band and the first live perfomance of “Popcorn Double Feature” and “Theme from Error-Orrori”

It is a great pity that what sounds to be an exemplary performance is ruined by such dire sound.