This one is a huge event, Many Thanks to Egg_Crisis for sharing this one here.
Drug Free America, The Psycho Surgeons,
The Late Henry Henderson, Salvation, Ghost Dance, Pink Peg Slax
"Comic Relief Party", Leeds Polytechnic, 5th February 1988
Drug Free America
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White Hot Subterranean (start missing)
Hallelujah Gang (end missing)
The Psycho Surgeons
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Diagnosis (start missing)
Job Satisfaction
I Claudius
Dirty Behaviour
Important Words
Justice
Schindler's Ark
New Barbarians
The Late Henry Henderson
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A stand-up comedian with his face made up to look like Frankensteins monster.
Salvation
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Payola
Diamond Child
The Happening
She Is An Island
Sunshine Superman
Pearl Necklace
Thunderbird
(Blind Among The Flowers)
(Listen To Her Heart)
Teenage Kicks
(Listen To Her Heart)
(Spirit In The Sky)
Listen To Her Heart
(The song titles in brackets are just riffs and fragments)
Salvation and Ghostdance
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Paper Plane (Status Quo)
Heatseeker (AC/DC)
(Ghostdance's guitarists join Salvation on stage for these 2 songs)
Pink Peg Slax
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Domino
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Set You Free
Finale
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Wild Thing/Louie Louie
Drug Free America is just a fragment. There would have been more but just before the Finale started my 3rd cassette snapped and I knew something special was going to happen so started rewinding the first cassette to record over the already incomplete Drug Free America. As I was rewinding it the Finale started so I just stopped rewinding and started recording from where it was. That meant that the 12-minute Finale recorded over the end of Drug Free America and the start of the Psycho Surgeons (and I'd already missed the start of the Surgeons first song in the initial recording).
Diagnosis was either the first or second song, so their set is almost complete.
The Late Henry Henderson...
His real name is Bob Winter, he became a Monster Raving Loony candidate in 1988.
To explain the visual jokes... Firstly, the guy's made up to look like Frankensteins monster.
The "droopy" comment at 4:43 refers to his microphone which drooped in the mic stand.
He's got various props which he produces at various points, pretty self explanatory.
When he introduces "Richard", it's a head on the end of his left arm which up until this point was hidden under his cloak.
When everyone's "waving" at around 9:40, everyone is putting 2 fingers up at him.
"I couldn't get a full one" - he has an empty beer glass he uses to help do the voice.
"Edwina Currie" - someone throws something at him that resembles curry.
At 13:57 he throws weetabix (he'd intended to hit it with a tennis raquet but someone stole it.)
I was told before the gig that Danny (Salvation) had promised to sing Tiffany's "I Think We're Alone Now" during their set, but only if he was drunk enough. Presumably he wasn't drunk enough!
Pink Peg Slax went down very badly, presumably because their music didn't fit in with the other bands that evening, and also maybe some people were all fired up waiting for what might happen in the Grand Finale and didn't think they should have been on so late in the proceedings. Perhaps they'd have been received differently if they'd have been positioned earlier in the evening.
For the Finale there were members from most of the nights bands on stage, except for Pink Peg Slax who were probably annoyed with the audience's reaction to them and probably left after their set ended, and I don't remember any of Psycho Surgeons being there also.
On vocals Danny (Salvation), Anne Marie (Ghost Dance), Drug Free America singer, and part-way through a guy got up out of the audience, picked up a mic and joined in! He's the one who sings bits of the Kinks 'You Really Got Me' and it works really well. I found out later he was the singer of a local band "Purple Eternal".
Also sometime during the evening, either during the Finale or during the Ghost Dance/Salvation bit I remember seeing two guitarists (Ghostdance/Salvation) rocking it on stage with inflatable guitars.
Andrew Eldritch had been hotly tipped to make an appearance at this gig, possibly just for the Finale, but didn't. Later I was told he would have been there but for the fact that he'd had his wisdom teeth out shortly before and so was unable to attend.
Ghost Dance didn't play a set of their own. The first band that evening was called Exocet. I didn't record them. I may not have even seen them as I don't remember them at all. Apart from them and the incomplete Drug Free America and the slightly incomplete Psycho Surgeons the evening is complete.
Cassette(aud,master,TDK D90,recorded on Saisho PS 35R with built-in mic) > mp3 256kbps
Transfer done around 7 years ago when I didn't know anything about flac, etc, and I no longer have the tapes. :/ 256 is still good though, right?
Uploaded by Egg_Crisis for Dark Circle Room (
http://darkcircleroom2.blogspot.com )
Split into individual tracks for personal use only since that causes more damage to the file. Do not circulate without this info file.
