Live At Brixton Ace
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Recorded Live at the Brixton Academy, London, UK on June 29th, 1983
with the classic early Sisters line-up shortly before release of the Temple Of Love / Heartland single in October 1983.
Issued in basically four known editions. The first edition comes in a variety of coloured cover sheets
of the same motive fixed with four pieces of adhesive tape to the otherwise white custom covers:
Release Notes
- Label:
- The first edition comes from a source near Florence (Italy)
- All following represses are from the German label Situation Zero
- Format: 12" vinyl LP
- Catalogue#: SM-2389
- Matrix Numbers:
- Side A: SM-2389/A
- Side B: SM-2389/B
- Released:
- First edition: 1984 (Italy)
- Following editions: from 1985 onwards (Germany)
Spelling Mistakes
- All editions misspell Burn as "Bone".
- Some of the green/black (second) editions omit Burn completely from the track list
or have the song retroactively filled into the track list by hand.
- Jolene is called "Solene".
- On the back cover of the third edition only Burn is still wrong.
Track List
- A2 Alice
- A3 Anaconda
- A4 Valentine
- A5 Burn
- A6 Jolene
- B1 Heartland
- B2 Adrenochrome
- B3 Floorshow
- B5 Emma
Sleeve Infos (Third Edition):
- Recorded by the Magician People
- Mixed in Underground Studios, London
- CP by Situation Zero
- Third edition gives 'London at the Brixton Ace 19.2.1983' as recording date. This is an error.
The Various Editions In Detail
First Edition
- As far as we know, the first edition is available with xeroxed coloured cover sheets
in white, blue, yellow, orange, red and beige tone.
- Certain varieties exist which differ in that some of the xeroxes are A4 in size,
filling only part of the cover front (as in the picture here on the right),
while others are large enough to cover the front almost in full,
(see all the pictures on top of this page).
- Furthermore the smaller A4 xeroxes do not have that half-page high black frame around the central drawing.
- Apart from all these, an unreleased and unique b/w cover directly from the manufacturer has surfaced recently.
The A4 b/w-picture featured on this one reminds of an actress in a movie scene.
- The backside of all of the covers of these are plain white.
- The vinyls are mostly multicoloured, though black copies do exist as well.
Second Edition
- The second edition has a green/black cover sheet and comes with blue or clear blue vinyl.
- The tracks are listed on the front cover while the back of the cover is
- as far as we gathered - the same as the one of the third edition.
Third Edition
- The cover of the third edition is a fully printed b/w cover (see the pictures beside the Track List).
- The vinyls of this one are either clear darkblue or clear transparent.
- This edition is allegedly limited to 500 copies.
Further Editions
- A following repress from Germany has an orange A4 cover sheet.
- The vinyls are black with black labels.
| This page is Work in Progress and going to be extended as soon as ever possible |
Further Pictures
... are definitely in demand for the back covers of the first edition as well as for not yet detected colours of vinyls and/or covers. Any help were very much appreciated ...
