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The Smiths 03/11/1985

SHOWID 350043

Set I

William, It Was Really Nothing
Nowhere Fast
I Want The One I Can't Have
What She Said
How Soon Is Now?
Stretch Out And Wait
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
Handsome Devil
The Headmaster Ritual
Shakespeare's Sister
Rusholme Ruffians
Hand In Glove
Still Ill
Meat Is Murder

Barbarism Begins At Home
Miserable Lie

Set II

 

Set III

 

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Tulum (5/0) FLAC / 18 View   Sony WMD-6 Walkman with Sony EMC-929LT Mic onto Metal tape
Notes: And so on to Ipswich. The day before we'd been half way to Southend, but the show had been cancelled. Southend Pavillion is built on a slope, down to the sea ... and looks like its an stilts. We heard that they were afraid it would fall down. We spent most of the afternoon there, and it soon became apparent that we wern't going to see the Smiths that day. So another afternoon at another seaside town in March, and then home. I remember Ipswich as being pretty non-descript, and not very alive. There was a long straight dual-carrigeway most of the way, and then at the end, was this grey half asleep little town. After the disappointment yesterday, we didn't get there that early ... just with enough time to park the van, find the theatre, and search out somewhere to get something to eat. The Gaumont was an old cinema type theatre, all seated, with bossy ladies to keep you in your seats. So not the best for those of us on the guest list. They hussled us up to the circle, and made us stand right at the back. There was a ailse running right across the back, with a wooden partition at the back of the rearmost seats, which went right to the ceiling, but had a section cut out at eye level right along so you could see the stage (just about). The sound wasn't great at the back, and it wasn't ideal for recording as people would periodically shuffle past you throughout the show. I remember this is a very average recording ... although it sounds better than I remember. This was the first of our recordings that I saw on an 'official' bootleg. No CD boots them of course, just LPs ... and much harder to come across. The Ipswich one was called 'Music Is Magnificent' and credited Soundsville International on the cover ... although we hadn't a clue who had actually produced it ... so it must have been made from some cassette copy, probably bought from our stall. If they'd bothered to ask, we would have been happy to provide the master cassette, and probably recommended a better recording. Again this was recorded using my Sony Professional D6 Walkman with Sony EMC-929LT Mic onto Metal tape.
cut_here (2/5) flac / 1 View   Sony EMC-929LT Mic>sony pro walkman>metal tape>flac
John (1/5) DVD / 1 B View   Sony WMD-6 Walkman with Sony EMC-929LT Mic onto Metal tape > flac
David Backus (1/5) DVD+R/FLAC / 1 View   AUD
Notes: master
Nigel S (1/0) / 0 B+ View   AUD