Colours In Carnage (2LP)

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Colours In Carnage - LP cover (front)

A live-bootleg from The Sisters 1984 Black October Tour, originally released on CD in 1990...

Release Notes

  • Label: Ghostrider Records/Duck Production
  • Format: 12" vinyl coloured 2 LP
  • Catalogue#: SOM-LP1
  • Release Date: 2002 or 2003


Remarks

  • Very good sound quality - soundboard recording
  • Issued in at least two editions, the first one of which is a limited edition of 200 copies
  • Available in 4 different colours and various combinations of these colours
    see Different Releases / Known Vinyl Colour Variations down below ...
  • Labels are black with only the alphabetical side numbering in a very baroque Gothic print.
    A variety with red labels on record 1 and black labels on record 2 are said to exist as well.
    Evidence for these could not be found so far.
  • Sometimes, record 1 has the labels on the wrong side.
  • The track lists for sides A-C on the cover back are wrongly shifted by one song,
    compare the track lists and the back of the cover ...
  • The production and release dates on the cover (1990/1985) do not
    reflect the actual time of release for these vinyls (2002/3).


Doktor Avalanche in malfunction

It happend only few times that Doktor Avalanche malfunctioned to an extent that the band had to cancel a song and it seems that Colours in Carnage is the only document on vinyl of such an incident on stage. So here is a brief description of the events:

Right at the beginning of Burn, the opening track, Doktor Avalanche suddenly stopped. This happened three times.
So the band decided to go on with the next song and performed Heartland. But during the long final chorus Doktor Avalanche began to play irregular beats and the band quitted the song.

Andrew commented:
"We‘ve got to attend to our machinery for a while. It's deedless.”

Then, as the audience became fretful, someone else on stage said:
“Listen! You can get these songs the right way and you can get them the wrong way.

If you wait ten minutes, we'll get them the right way. So I suggest, you shut up for a while and talk amongst yourselves!"

The (ten) minutes it took to attend to Doktor Avalanche are, of course, omitted on the record.

Before the band restarted their performance Andrew apologized:
"Sorry about that. Let's hope it works. Nobody wants this.”

Then they played the whole song Burn and a shortened reprise of Heartland - just the last verse and the final chorus.
Afterwards, the concert continued in the usual way, in terms of the machinery.

Source


Track Lists

Colours In Carnage - LP cover (back)
Record 1
A1   Burn B1   No Time To Cry
A2   Heartland B2   Anaconda
A3   Burn B3   Emma
A4   Marian       B4   A Rock And A Hard Place                                
A5   Walk Away                                       B5   Train

Record 2
C1   Floorshow D1   Knockin' On Heaven's Door
C2   Alice D2   Adrenochrome
C3   Body Electric       D3   Ghostrider / Sister Ray
C4   Gimme Shelter                                 



Different Releases / Known Vinyl Colour Variations known so far

  • Factually known are green, medium blue, also light blue, white, and pink vinyls
    all of which are slightly marbled
  • The first edition consists of either 2 x green, 2 x blue, 2 x white or 2 x pink vinyls,
    all in a slightly marbled tint with (most likely) black labels on each
  • Following editions combine these colours. Known combinations so far are:
    record 1 white, record 2 pink and record 1 pink, record 2 green.
    Possibly, this was also the moment when red labels on record 1 came in.


For recent price developments see sistersbootlegs/coloursincarnage or popsike/coloursincarnage.

Additional pictures

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Colours In Carnage
- slightly marbled blue vinyl
Colours In Carnage
- slightly marbled lightblue vinyl
Colours In Carnage
- slightly marbled mint-green vinyl
Colours In Carnage
- slightly marbled white vinyl
Colours In Carnage
- slightly marbled pink vinyl
Colours In Carnage - original edition, two different sets,
 one with green/lightblue, one with blue/lightblue vinyls
Colours In Carnage - Set with white and pink vinyls
This is the only evidence for some red labels found so far.
Colours In Carnage - Set with pink and green vinyls


For recent price developments see sistersbootlegs/Colours In Carnage DoLP... or popsike.com/colours in carnage