Soundcheck
Jawbone and the Air Rifle
Gig
- I’m Into C.B. (Medley Version)
- Look, Know
- Fortress
- Deer Park
- Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
- Fantastic Life
- The N.W.R.A.
- Just Step S’ways
- Slates, Slags, etc.
- Middle Mass
- Winter
- Jawbone and the Air Rifle
- Leave the Capitol
NOTES
An excellent audience capture net of the muddy soundcheck recording which is a good reference but pale in comparison to the very clear capture. There is a slight drop out in Deer Park.
Mark’s vocals are exceptionally clear despite perceived on stage problems with sound via monitors
The genesis of Hex was delivered through this Autumn/Winter tour and the emerging six piece sound is presented here in fledgling form. A notable start with the second known outing of “CB” in its in early narrative form where discordant guitar backing morphs into a jaunty greatest riffs medley.
An exceptional trio of songs follows with a storming “Fantastic Life” creating a wall of unforgiving garage sound. It transpires that “NWRA” has been extracted through the use of “Soap….. Sodium Pentathol”.
Mark demands that the band goes faster during “Sideways” – he is right to do so as it has a lumpen feel to it tonight….almost constipated in its delivery.
Mark explains that he is trying to get a vocal uh sound and its like shouting against a brick wall before and amazing nigh on nine minute version of “Winter” with a cryptic “egomania” slipped in before the vocals proper start. The tension and release here is palpable unfortunately slightly ruined by extraneous audience chatter, and a slight break in the song I assume due to a tape flip.
Encores include a wee tale from the “Hebredians” which is a tad slow, and “Leave the Capital” introduced by a gnomic “omnipresence is better than mere presence” – again to my ears a touch slow in the delivery.
It may be that the recording needs speeding up a tad to reflect the actual sound?
Other than those minor gripes a good gig with mostly solid performances.