A Fire In The Hull
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This 12" live bootleg was first released as Live In Hull, 1983 and then reisssued as A Fire In The Hull. It is very obvious, that the first issue was the prototype for the second one.
The record contains a soundboard recording
from the last concert of The Sisters of Mercy's
UK Spring Tour 1983 in Hull PLUS further
two songs from the according soundcheck.
The peculiarity of this bootleg - aside from
the really good sound quality of the recording -
is that a lot of songs were played out of tune
and sometimes even messed up.
With the exception of Doktor Avalanche
all members of the band are mistaken at times
during the performance.
Nowadays we can't say why, but we consider that
it was the last concert of the tour held in the
hometown of `Gary Marx and these circumstances
might have given rise to this "dissonance".
However, it seems that the audience were enjoying the concert and so can do the listener of this bootleg as well.
Release Notes
- Label: - none -
- Catalogue:
- 1st edition - Live In Hull, 1983: - none -
- 2nd edition - A Fire In The Hull: H1983
- Format: 12" LP
- Time of Release:
- 1st edition: 2015
- 2nd edition: 2016
- Place of Release: (both) Australia
Remarks
- The sound quality is very good as it
- comes from a soundboard recording
- Cover notes on both editions:
- "A VERY MERCIFUL RELEASE HAMBURG GERMANY"
Editions
- The first one is a very rare item as it where strictly limited to 30 handnumbered copies.
- It comes in a white generic cover with a A4 xerox sheet pasted to it.
- The second one has a proper cover as shown in the images
- It was pressed on a wide variety of different vinyl colours.
- The multicoluered splattered vinyls seem to be very rare. (According to the sellers information on Discogs, there are only 8 copies of each colour combination.)
- The single-coloured vinyls have usually a round sticker in the right top corner
- for example: "LIMITED EDITION RED VINYL"
- Colours that surfaced so far:
- Splattered: black and white on clear vinyl, black and green on clear vinyl, black and yellow on clear vinyl
- Single-coloured: clear, orange, red, white
- Non of these copies are numbered
- Additional back cover notes on this edition:
Source
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 |
Additional Pictures
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