Halloween's Day

Halloween's Day - Cover (front) with red ribbon

Halloween's Day - Cover (front) with black ribbon

This 2LP bootleg is generally referred to as Halloween's Day, after the notation on the rear of the sleeve
and due to the fact that the recording is from the Lyceum show on 31st October 1984.

The cover states that only 500 individually hand-numbered bootlegs were produced,
while the first 50 copies of which would be pressed on multi-coloured vinyls.

Rumour has it, however, that the bootleg makers got caught and most of the bootlegs were
confiscated and burned up. Only 50 copies(!) survived this tragic ending, and that's what's left of it.

Possibly, the remaining copies were sent out with a black funereal ribbon instead of the original red one,
due to these occurrences. Be that as it may, the copies with red ribbons are clearly more rare than
those with a black one.

Very few further copies do come without any ribbon at all - and also even without the regular sleeve!
These are stored in a white standard cover with a b/w xerox of the original back cover notes
on the backsleeve. Against all odds, those copies are still hand-numbered.
None of the mulitcoloured vinyls have ever surfaced on the market.

Release Notes

Label: Merciful Fan Club Release

Catalogue#: SOM 22

Format: 2 x 12" vinyl LP

Released: 1985

Remarks

The records come with either a black or a red ribbon looped around the cover.
Without such a ribbon, the bootleg is, basically, not complete.

All copies are handnumbered.

The vinyls are black with plain white labels.
A copy with white labels and a red print (or a red hand-made lettering) does also exist.

The run-outs are SOM 22 A, B, C & D, respectively.

The backsleeve notes:

Recorded live on Halloween's Day...
Limited edition of 500 copies. 50 in multicoloured vinyl. Your copy Nr_...
This is a Merciful Fan Club Release. Thanks to Chris for Tickets and L for remix.

Despite these notes way less than 300 copies are likely to have survived the raid.

Copies seen so far are:
102, 125 (white standard cover with xerox), 147, 177, 188, 192, 292, 367, 378, 379.

No multi-coloured copy has ever surfaced.
It is not clear, whether these were not yet pressed when the bootlegger got busted
or whether they were found during the raid and destroyed afterwards.