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 records contain a soundboard recording from the last gig 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, it's impossible to tell why this happened. Possibly, 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 were fully enjoying the gig and so the listener should be pleased with this bootleg as well.
Release Notes
- Label: - none -
- Catalogue#s:
- 1st edition - Live In Hull 1983: - none -
- 2nd edition - A Fire In The Hull: H1983
- Format: 12" vinyl LP
- Time of Release:
- 1st edition - Live In Hull 1983: 2015
- 2nd edition - A Fire In The Hull: 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:
- ANDREW ELDRITCH-VOCALS, PROGRAMMING
- GARY MARX-GUITAR
- CRAIG ADAMS-BASS
- BEN GUNN-GUITAR
- A VERY MERCIFUL RELEASE HAMBURG GERMANY
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Editions
- 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 giving all the track and bootleg information
- glued to the cover front, while the cover back is plain white.
- Additional cover notes on this edition:
- LIMITED EDITION ##/10
- These ten records were pressed on black vinyl with plain white labels.
- "Sisters Hull ##/10" is handwriten in black ink and "2 July 2015" - obviously the release date - is stamped on one side of these labels
- 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
- It was pressed on a variety of different vinyl colours, single-coloured and multi-coloured.
- The multi-coloured splattered vinyls are also limited to very low numbers of copies.
- Colour combinations so far seen are black and white splattered on clear vinyl, black and green splattered on clear vinyl, black and yellow splattered on clear vinyl and black, white, green and yellow splattered on clear vinyl.
- According to the seller's information @Discogs, only 8 copies of each of these splattered colour combinations exist.
- 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.
- The labels are black with a dark red lettering and the old head and star logo.
- They specify the bands name, the album title, the song titles and the side of the record.
- Runout grooves: SOM H1983 -A- and -B-
Source
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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
- Please click into pictures for larger views -
Images of the 2nd edition with multi-coloured vinyls
Images of the 2nd edition with single-coloured vinyls
