Live At Brixton Ace

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Recorded Live at the Brixton Academy, London, UK on June 29th, 1983

with the classic early Sisters line-up shortly before release of the Temple Of Love / Heartland single in October 1983.

Issued in basically four known editions. The first edition comes with a variety of coloured copy sheets of the same motive

fixed with four pieces of adhesive tape to the otherwise white custom covers. The drawing in these sheets shows the painting

Two Girls by Bulgarian expressionist painter Jules Pascin, who was also known as "The Prince of Montparnasse".

A detail of the same painting was later used for the cover art of the bootleg Dead Flowers.

Live At Brixton Ace
- First Edition with yellow cover sheet
Live At Brixton Ace
- First Edition with blue cover sheet
Live At Brixton Ace
- First Edition with red cover sheet
Live At Brixton Ace
- First Edition with beige cover sheet


Two Girls by Jules Pascin


Release Notes

  • Label:
    - The first edition comes from a source near Florence (Italy)
    - All following represses are from the German label Situation Zero
  • Format: 12" vinyl LP
Brixton Ace - Second Edtion with green/black cover sheet
  • Catalogue#: SM-2389
NOTE: The same catalogue# was used for a reissue of
the 2LP-bootleg The Lights Shine Clear Through The Sodium Haze
suggesting Situation Zero as the producers of that one as well.
  • Matrix Numbers:
    - Side A: SM-2389/A
    - Side B: SM-2389/B
  • Released:
    - First edition: 1984 (Italy)
    - Following editions: from 1985 onwards (Germany)



Spelling Mistakes

  • Burn is misspelled as "Bone".
  • Some of the green/black (second) editions omit Burn completely from the track list
    or have the song retroactively filled into the track list by hand.
  • On the back cover of the third edition only Burn is still wrong.



Track List

Live At Brixton Ace
- Third Edition with b/w cover (back)
Live At Brixton Ace
- Third Edition with b/w cover

Side 1


Side 2



The Different Editions In Detail

Live At Brixton - a blue A4 xerox cover version of the first edition without black frame around the central drawing

First Edition

  • The first edition is available with xeroxed coloured cover sheets
    in white, blue, yellow, orange, red and beige tone.
  • Certain varieties exist which differ in that some of the xeroxes are A4 in size,
    filling only part of the cover front (as in the picture here on the right),
    while others are large enough to cover the front almost in full,
    (see all the pictures on top of this page).
  • Furthermore the smaller A4 xeroxes do not have that half-page high black frame
    around the central drawing and list the tracks underneath instead of on the left and right side higher up.
  • The backside of all covers of the first release are plain white.
  • The vinyls are mostly multicoloured in white, red, blue, yellow. Some are white, yellow, blue, green
    or clear, yellow, blue, green. But there are other mixtures, too. And a few black copies do exist as well.
    Please see the large collection of pictures down below ...
  • Almost all vinyls have plain white labels, sometimes with handwritten notes on them.
    There are exceptions, though.


Edward Munch - Women I, aquatint and drypoint (1895)


Live At Brixton Ace - 2nd Edition


Second Edition


  • The second edition has a green/black cover sheet showing a reproduction
of the aquatint and drypoint Woman I by Norwegian painter and printmaker
Edward Munch, which was done by the artist in 1895.
  • The vinyls of this edition are either blue or clear blue with plain white labels.
  • The tracks are listed on the front cover while the back of the cover is
    - as far as we gathered - the same as the one of the third edition.
  • Please see the picture up right and those at the bottom of this page.





Live At Brixton Ace - Third Edition with Clear Vinyl


Third Edition


  • The cover of the third edition is a fully printed b/w cover
    (see the pictures beside the Track List).
  • The vinyls are either clear darkblue or clear transparent.
  • The edition is allegedly limited to 500 copies.


Sleeve Notes - Third Edition

  • Recorded by the Magician People
  • Mixed in Underground Studios, London
  • CP by Situation Zero
  • The cover states "London at the Brixton Ace 19.2.1983"
as the recording date. This is an error.



Live At Brixton Ace - Unique b/w-cover with multicoloured vinyl


 Further Editions



Unique Cover

  • Apart from the above mentioned issues,
an unreleased and unique b/w cover with a multicoloured vinyl has surfaced recently.
  • The A4 b/w-picture featured on the cover reminds of an actress in a movie scene.
  • The item was handed over to one of our collectors directly by the manufacturer.
You see a picture of it here on the left.


German Repress


  • Years after the origial release, some repress was apparently intended from Germany
  • According to our information, the one you see down here on the right side
was released around 1988/89. No further copy of this one has so far been seen.
  • The cover front has an orange print in around A4 size.


Live At Brixton Ace - Reissue Edition (1988/89)
although, the latter was clearly not involved in the gig at Brixton Ace in 1983.
  • The vinyls are black with yellow/black labels. Labels of that design, although in red colour,
have also been seen on the Amazing Kornyphone release Dark Paradise (12").
Live At Brixton - Repress Version (Label 1)
Live At Brixton - Repress Version (Label 2)


For recent price developments see sistersbootlegs/Brixton Ace or popsike/brixtonace.

Additional Pictures

First Edition

Live At Brixton - white cover version of the first edition with multicoloured vinyl
Live At Brixton - blue cover version with multicoloured vinyl
Brixton Ace - First Edition - yellow cover (Signed)
Brixton Ace - usual multicoloured vinyl
Live At Brixton - blue version with multicoloured vinyl
Live At Brixton Ace - a yellowish cover version
Live At Brixton Ace - blue cover version
Live At Brixton - blue version without black frame
Live At Brixton - yellow version of the first edition with multicoloured vinyl
Live At Brixton - beige cover with clear multicolour vinyl
Brixton Ace - black vinyl without label
Brixton Ace - black vinyl
Brixton Ace - orange version
Brixton Ace - orange A4 xerox
Live At Brixton - red cover with clear multicoloured vinyl
Live At Brixton - red cover with multicoloured vinyl
Live At Brixton - red cover with multicoloured vinyl
Live At Brixton - red cover with blue vinyl


Second Edition


Brixton Ace - Second Edition with Blue Vinyl
Brixton Ace - Second Edition with Clear Blue Vinyl
Brixton Ace - Second Edition
Cover (back) with Clear Blue Vinyl


Third Edition


Brixton Ace - Third Edition with Clear Vinyl
Brixton Ace - Third Edition with Blue Vinyl
Brixton Ace - Third Edition Clear Vinyl