Brixton Ace 29-06-83
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The Sisters of Mercy's concert at Brixton Ace in June 1983 was recorded from the audience by various tapers, including at least one video taper.
This cassette right here is one of the results. For information about all known recordings see further down below under Existing Sources and Further Information
Recording Notes (cassette / data)
- Taper: - unknown -
- Catalogue#: none
- Format: Cassette (unknown gen.) or data (FLACs)
- Lineage of data version:
- --> Cassette --> ION Tape2PC Deck --> Audacity
- --> CD Wave --> TLH FLAC Level 6
- Released: - unknown -
Remarks (cassette)
- The cassette was bought at a record fair in late '86 / early '87
- The cover art shows the typical features of bootleg trading cassettes of the time.
- The venue is wrongly listed as "HAMM. PAL., i.e. Hammersmith Palais,
- although it took - of course - place at Brixton Ace.
- Various errors in the song titles - Jolene was incorrectly titled Joleen and
- Adrenochrome wrongly noted as Adrenachrome
Existing Sources and Further Information
- Recorded live at Brixton Ace, London, UK on 29 June 1983
- A vinyl bootleg featuring this concert does exist in various editions, see Live At Brixton Ace.
- It is not known, which recording sourced the above mentioned cassette or the Live LP.
At least four audience recordings from this concert exist:
Audience Recording 1
- Taper: D.JONES
- Sound Quality: 4/5
- Sound Example: Eldritch talking in the break turning to Heartland ...
- Tracks:
- Kiss The Carpet / Alice / Anaconda / Valentine / Burn / Jolene / Heartland /
- Adrenochrome / Floorshow / Gimme Shelter / Emma / Body Electric
Audience Recording 2
- Taper: GEOF
- Sound Quality: 3-4
- The quality of this recording is similar to the one used for the Live At Brixton Ace vinyl bootleg,
- however, this recording in not the source of that bootleg.
- Sound Example: Break at the end of Kiss turning to Alice ...
- Tracks:
- Kiss The Carpet / Alice / Anaconda / Valentine / Burn / Jolene / Heartland /
- Adrenochrome / Floorshow / Gimme Shelter / Emma / Body Electric
Audience Recording 3
- Taper: KAZ
- Sound Quality: 3 (Big Dolby)
- Sound Example: Break at the end of Kiss turning to Alice ...
- Tracks:
- Kiss The Carpet / Alice / Anaconda / Valentine / Burn / Jolene / Heartland /
- Adrenochrome / Floorshow / Gimme Shelter / Emma / Body Electric
Audience Video Recording 4 - incomplete -
- Taper: an unknown Italian girl
- She also recorded the concert of The Smiths on that day.
- In order to avoid flattening her battery she omitted some tracks.
- Thanks to Roy Oh this video is available here @YouTube...
- Sound Quality: 4
- Tracks:
- Kiss The Carpet / Alice / Anaconda / Valentine / Burn is missing / Jolene (only partly) /
- Heartland / Adrenochrome / Floorshow is missing / Gimme Shelter / Emma / Body Electric is missing.
Our thanks go to spiggymr7 for all the sound examples and plenty of the information used here.