A Fire In The Hull

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This bootleg was first released as Live In Hull 1983 (left) and then reissued as A Fire In The Hull (centre & right). It is very obvious, that the first issue was the prototype for the second one.

Life In Hull 1983 - First Edition LP Cover (front)
A Fire In The Hull - Second Edition LP Cover (front)
A Fire In The Hull - Second Edition LP Cover (back)

The record contains 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 Remarks
Label: - none - The sound quality is very good as it comes from a soundboard recording.
Catalogue#s: Cover notes on both editions:
   1st edition - Live In Hull 1983: - none -    ANDREW ELDRITCH-VOCALS, PROGRAMMING
   2nd edition - A Fire In The Hull: H1983                                                                                     GARY MARX-GUITAR
Format: 12" vinyl LP    CRAIG ADAMS-BASS
Time of Release:    BEN GUNN-GUITAR
   1st edition - Live In Hull 1983: 2015
   2nd edition - A Fire In The Hull: 2016    A VERY MERCIFUL RELEASE HAMBURG GERMANY
Place of Release: (both) Australia    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


Life In Hull 1983 - First Edition (overview)
A Fire In The Hull - Second Edition
with red vinyl (overview)


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 glued to the cover front
that gives all the track and bootleg information, 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.
On one side of these labels, "Sisters Hull ##/10" is handwriten in black ink
and "2 July 2015" - obviously the release date - is stamped, also in black ink.


  • 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.
  • The multi-coloured splattered vinyls are also limited to very low numbers of copies.
Colour combinations seen so far are black and white splattered, black and green splattered,
black and yellow splattered and black, white, green and yellow splattered, all of which on clear vinyl.
According to information @Discogs, only 8 copies of each of colour combinations exist.
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.
  • 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.
  • 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 either.


Life In Hull 1983 - (black vinyl)
First Edition Label
A Fire In The Hull - (orange vinyl)
Second Edition Label
  • The labels are black with a dark red lettering and the old head and star logo.
  • Runout grooves: SOM H1983 -A- and -B-



Source

as well as two songs from the soundcheck before the gig.


For recent price developments consult popsike/hull.


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 -

2nd edition with multi-coloured vinyls

A Fire In The Hull - Second Edition
black and green on clear vinyl (overview)
A Fire In The Hull - Second Edition
black and white on clear vinyl (overview)
A Fire In The Hull - Second Edition
black and yellow on clear vinyl (overview)
A Fire In The Hull - Second Edition
b/w, green and yellow on clear vinyl (overview)
A Fire In The Hull
- Black And Green Splattered Clear Vinyl Label B
A Fire In The Hull
- Black And White Splattered Clear Vinyl
A Fire In The Hull
- Yellow Black Splattered Clear Vinyl
A Fire In The Hull
- Yellow, Green and b/w Splattered Clear Vinyl


2nd edition with single-coloured vinyls

A Fire In The Hull - Second Edition
white vinyl (overview)
A Fire In The Hull - Second Edition
red vinyl (overview)
A Fire In The Hull - Second Edition
orange vinyl (overview)
A Fire In The Hull - Second Edition
clear vinyl (overview)