A Fire In The Hull
This bootleg was first released as Live In Hull 1983 (left picture) and then reissued as A Fire In The Hull (pictures in the centre & right).
It is very obvious, that the first issue was the prototype for the second one. Remarkably, a so-called "LIMITED EDITION TEST" pressing
and a variety of single-track acetates appeared after that. Further editions are still coming up ...
Source
The album features a soundboard recording of the entire concert of July 1st, 1983 at Dingwalls, Kingston upon Hull,
the last gig of The Sisters's UK Spring Tour in 1983, PLUS a further two songs from the soundcheck before the gig.
What is special about this bootleg - aside from the really good sound quality - is that many of the songs were played
out of tune and were partially even messed up. With the exception of Doktor Avalanche, every member of the band had
their slip sometimes during the performance. Nowadays, it is, of course, impossible to tell why this happened.
Maybe, the fact that this was the final concert of the tour and that it took place in the hometown of Gary Marx gave rise
to a certain lack of concentration. Anyway, the audience fully enjoyed the concert. And so the listener should be pleased
with this bootleg as well.
Track List
| Side 1 | Remarks | Side 2 | Remarks |
| 1. Kiss The Carpet | -- | 1. Floorshow | Messed up guitar solo in the end |
| 2. Alice | -- | 2. Gimme Shelter | Generally out of tune |
| 3. Anaconda | Messed up guitar lines in between the verses | 3. Body Electric | -- |
| 4. Valentine | -- | 4. Ghost Rider | -- |
| 5. Burn | Especially in the end the band gets out of tune | 5. Louie Louie | -- |
| 6. Heartland | Messed up and out of tune in the beginning | 6. Burn | Instrumental soundcheck |
| 7. Adrenochrome | -- | 7. Gimme Shelter | Soundcheck |
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| Release Notes | Remarks |
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| 1st edition - Live In Hull 1983: - none - | ANDREW ELDRITCH-VOCALS, PROGRAMMING |
| 2nd edition - A Fire In The Hull: H1983 | GARY MARX-GUITAR |
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CRAIG ADAMS-BASS |
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BEN GUNN-GUITAR |
| 1st edition - Live In Hull 1983: 2015 | |
| 2nd edition - A Fire In The Hull: 2016 | A VERY MERCIFUL RELEASE HAMBURG GERMANY |
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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED |
| This page is Work in Progress and going to be extended as soon as ever possible |
Editions
First Edition
- The first edition is a very rare item as it was strictly limited
to 10 hand-numbered copies.
- These records come in a generic white cover with a white A4
xerox sheet glued to the cover front that gives all the track and
bootleg information (see also the picture on top of the page).
- The cover back is plain white.
- Additional cover notes on this edition: LIMITED EDITION .../10
- The records were pressed on black vinyl with plain white labels.
One side of these labels has "Sisters Hull .../10" handwritten on it in black ink and a likewise black-ink stamp saying "2 July 2015" - obviously the release date.
First Edition - Test Pressing
Second Edition
The second edition comes with a proper cover as shown in the images above and below.
- Additional back cover notes on this edition:
- RECORDED ON THE SOM MOBILE
- PRODUCED BY ROUGH MOUSE
- SPECIAL THANKS TO LG
- This edition was pressed on a variety of different vinyl colours,
single-coloured and multi-coloured, which all appeared
around the same time.
- The labels are black with a dark red print and the old head
and star logo. They specify the bandname, the album title,
the song titles and the side of the record.
- Runout grooves: SOM H1983 -A- and -B-
Single-coloured vinyls
The single-coloured vinyls usually come with a round sticker in the top right corner saying for example: "LIMITED EDITION <RED> VINYL". Single-coloured vinlys surfaced so far were clear, orange, red and white. 4-LP sets consisting of a collection of all four single-coloured vinyls are sold as well. Despite the limited-edition sticker on the cover front, these copies are not numbered.
Multi-coloured splattered vinyls
The multi-coloured splattered vinyls of this edition are limited to very low numbers of copies and they are all done on clear vinyl. Two rows have, however been produced. The first series was distributed at the same time as the single-coloured vinyls, while the second series arrived some months later.
First series
Exixting colour combinations of this issue are:
- clear black and white splattered vinyl
- clear black and green splattered vinyl
- clear black and yellow splattered vinyl
- clear black, white, green and yellow splattered vinyl.
According to information @Discogs, there are only 8 copies of each colour combination. However, when these item were sold on eBay, the seller claimed that only 3 copies of each would exist, with the exception of the black, white, green and yellow splattered clear vinyl, of which there were only a single 1 (= a total of 10 multi-coloured splattered vinyls). Anyway, these copies are not numbered.
Second series
Third Edition - White Splattered Vinyls
Additional Pictures
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