Wednesday, 22 December, 1982 – Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England  

  1. And This Day
  2. Middle Mass
  3. Hexen Definitive
  4. Strife Knot
  5. I Feel Voxish
  6. Ludd Gang
  7. Detective Instinct
  8. The Man Whose Head Expanded
  9. Marquis Cha-Cha
  10. The Classical
  11. Pilsner Trail
  12. Garden
  13. Jawbone and the Air Rifle
  14. Backdrop

NOTES

80 minutes

A good recording although the drums tend to dominate the room.

Detective Instinct released on the expanded version of Room to Live.

Marc Riley’s last gig.

An iconic venue and an end of year home town celebration of a good year. A reasonably attended affair. We sat upstairs in the balcony where a couple of Dutch guys were filming the gig (one wonders what happened to that footage?).

Notable points are Kay’s constant sniping at Marc about keyboard/guitar volumes and a bass amp problem about half way through.

Moet from The Hamsters swears he was there.

We went to the Hacienda afterwards, where A Certain Ratio were playing to a sparse crowd, and had brief chats with Marc, Kay, Craig and MES.