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 with a variety of coloured copy sheets of the same motive
fixed with four pieces of adhesive tape to the otherwise white custom covers. The drawing in these sheets shows the painting
Two Girls by Bulgarian expressionist painter Jules Pascin, who was also known as "The Prince of Montparnasse".
A detail of the same painting was later used for the cover art of the bootleg Dead Flowers.
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
- NOTE: The same catalogue# was used for a reissue of
- the 2LP-bootleg The Lights Shine Clear Through The Sodium Haze
- suggesting Situation Zero as the producers of that one as well.
- 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
- Burn is misspelled 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
Side 1
- A2 Alice
- A3 Anaconda
- A4 Valentine
- A5 Burn
- A6 Jolene
Side 2
- B1 Heartland
- B2 Adrenochrome
- B3 Floorshow
- B5 Emma
The Different Editions In Detail
First Edition
- 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 and list the tracks underneath instead of on the left and right side higher up.
- The backside of all covers of the first release are plain white.
- The vinyls are mostly multicoloured in white, red, blue, yellow. Some are white, yellow, blue, green
or clear, yellow, blue, green. But there are other mixtures, too. And a few black copies do exist as well.
Please see the large collection of pictures down below ...
- Almost all vinyls have plain white labels, sometimes with handwritten notes on them.
There are exceptions, though.
Second Edition
- The second edition has a green/black cover sheet showing a reproduction
- of the aquatint and drypoint Woman I by Norwegian painter and printmaker
- Edward Munch, which was done by the artist in 1895.
- The vinyls of this edition are either blue or clear blue with plain white labels.
- 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.
- Please see the picture up right and those at the bottom of this page.
Third Edition
- The cover of the third edition is a fully printed b/w cover
(see the pictures beside the Track List).
- The cover art shows a b/w version of a painting by Belgiam surrealist Paul Delvaux,
La Comedie de Soir ou Les Belles de Nuit (The Evening Comedy or the Women of the Night).
- The vinyls are either clear darkblue or clear transparent.
- The edition is allegedly limited to 500 copies.
Sleeve Notes - Third Edition
- Recorded by the Magician People
- Mixed in Underground Studios, London
- CP by Situation Zero
- The cover states "London at the Brixton Ace 19.2.1983"
- as the recording date. This is an error.
Further Editions
Unique Cover
- Apart from the above mentioned issues,
- an unreleased and unique b/w cover with a multicoloured vinyl has surfaced recently.
- The A4 b/w-picture featured on the cover reminds of an actress in a movie scene.
- The item was handed over to one of our collectors directly by the manufacturer.
- You see a picture of it here on the left.
German Repress
- Years after the origial release, some repress was apparently intended from Germany
- According to our information, the one you see down here on the right side
- was released around 1988/89. No further copy of this one has so far been seen.
- The cover front has an orange print in around A4 size.
- It gives the setlist and also includes a small picture of Andrew Eldritch together with Patricia Morrison,
- although, the latter was clearly not involved in the gig at Brixton Ace in 1983.
- The vinyls are black with yellow/black labels. Labels of that design, although in red colour,
- have also been seen on the Amazing Kornyphone release Dark Paradise (12").
For recent price developments see sistersbootlegs/Brixton Ace or popsike/brixtonace.
Additional Pictures
First Edition
Second Edition
Third Edition
