Brixton Ace 19-02-83
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An early bootleg cassette featuring an audience recording from 1983.
Another recording taken from the mixing desk does exist as well. For details on this see further below.
Recording Notes (Audience Recording)
- Taper: - unknown -
- Catalogue#: none
- Format: TDK D60 Cassette or data (FLACs)
- Lineage of data version:
- TDK D60 Cassette --> Eltax Tape Deck --> wav
- --> Soundforge --> normalisation --> speed correction
- --> CD Wave ---> track splitting --> FLAC Level 6
- Released: most likely in the late 1980s
Remarks (Cassette)
- Total Running Time: 42:03 min.
- The cover art shows the typical features of bootleg trading cassettes of the time.
- The photo used for this cover art was actually not taken at the gig,
- but much later at Manchester Ritz in 1985.
- Watch was incorrectly titled Falling Down,
- which has been corrected by the buyer.
- Also a wrong recording date (19.12.1983) was corrected.
Existing Sources and Further Information
- Recorded live at Brixton Ace, London, UK on 19 February 1983
Two recordings from this concert exist:
- the above mentioned cassette (also available in remastered FLACs)
- Sound Quality (original unremastered cassette): 4/5
- Sound Example: Valentine
- a mixing desk recording used for the vinyl bootlegs Halloween In Arkham and Carmina Burana,
- which features only the second half of the concert.
- Sound Quality: 4/5
- Sound Example: Valentine
- Our thanks for the wonderful sound examples used here go to HL Forum member spiggymr7
Track Lists
Audience Recording (Cassette) | Mixing Desk Recording (used on vinyls) | |
Side A | Tracks featured on | |
01 Kiss The Carpet | 01 Alice - Halloween In Arkham / Carmina Burana | |
02 Floorshow | 02 Valentine - Halloween In Arkham / Carmina Burana | |
03 Watch | 03 Anaconda - Halloween In Arkham / Carmina Burana | |
04 Adrenochrome | 04 Body Electric - Halloween In Arkham | |
05 Alice | 05 1969 - Halloween In Arkham / Carmina Burana | |
06 Sister Ray - Halloween In Arkham | ||
Side B | ||
06 Valentine | ||
07 Anaconda | ||
08 Body Electric | ||
09 1969 | ||
10 Sister Ray |