Colours In Carnage (2LP)

Colours In Carnage - LP cover (front)

A live-bootleg from The Sisters 1984 Black October Tour, originally released on CD in 1990...

Release Notes

Label: Ghostrider Records/Duck Production
Format: 12" vinyl coloured 2 LP
Catalogue#: SOM-LP1
Release Date: 2002 or 2003

Remarks

Very good sound quality - soundboard recording

Originally released in 1990 in CD format

The first two tracks show Doktor Avalanche in malfunction

Issued in at least two editions, the first one of which is a limited edition of 200 copies

Available in 4 different colours and various combinations of these colours
see Different Releases / Known Vinyl Colour Variations down below ...

Labels are black with only the alphabetical side numbering in a very baroque Gothic print.
A variety with red labels on record 1 and black labels on record 2 are said to exist as well.
Evidence for these could not be found so far.

Sometimes, record 1 has the labels on the wrong side.

The track lists for sides A-C on the cover back are wrongly shifted by one song,
compare the track lists and the back of the cover ...

The production and release dates on the cover (1990/1985) do not
reflect the actual time of release for these vinyls (2002/3).

Doktor Avalanche in malfunction

It happend only few times that Doktor Avalanche malfunctioned to an extent that the band had to cancel a song and it seems that Colours in Carnage is the only document on vinyl of such an incident on stage. So here is a brief description of the events:

Right at the beginning of Burn, the opening track, Doktor Avalanche suddenly stopped. This happened three times.
So the band decided to go on with the next song and performed Heartland. But during the long final chorus Doktor Avalanche began to play irregular beats and the band quitted the song.

Andrew commented:
"We‘ve got to attend to our machinery for a while. It's deedless.”

Then, as the audience became fretful, someone else on stage said:
“Listen! You can get these songs the right way and you can get them the wrong way.

If you wait ten minutes, we'll get them the right way. So I suggest, you shut up for a while and talk amongst yourselves!"

The (ten) minutes it took to attend to Doktor Avalanche are, of course, omitted on the record.

Before the band restarted their performance Andrew apologized:
"Sorry about that. Let's hope it works. Nobody wants this.”

Then they played the whole song Burn and a shortened reprise of Heartland - just the last verse and the final chorus.
Afterwards, the concert continued in the usual way, in terms of the machinery.

Source

Recorded live at Rock City, Nottingham, UK on 17.10.1984

Track Lists

Colours In Carnage - LP cover (back)

Record 1
A1 Burn	B1 No Time To Cry
A2 Heartland	B2 Anaconda
A3 Burn	B3 Emma
A4 Marian	B4 A Rock And A Hard Place
A5 Walk Away	B5 Train

Record 2
C1 Floorshow	D1 Knockin' On Heaven's Door
C2 Alice	D2 Adrenochrome
C3 Body Electric	D3 Ghostrider / Sister Ray
C4 Gimme Shelter

Different Releases / Known Vinyl Colour Variations known so far

Factually known are green, medium blue, also light blue, white, and pink vinyls
all of which are slightly marbled

The first edition consists of either 2 x green, 2 x blue, 2 x white or 2 x pink vinyls,
all in a slightly marbled tint with (most likely) black labels on each

Following editions combine these colours. Known combinations so far are:
record 1 white, record 2 pink and record 1 pink, record 2 green.
Possibly, this was also the moment when red labels on record 1 came in.