NO: 11 AUG 1984 De Panne Seaside Festival - De Panne, Belgium

 

Setlist

The Perfect Kiss, Ceremony, Chosen Time, Leave Me Alone, The Him, Thieves Like Us, Everything's Gone Green, Confusion, Age Of Consent, Sunrise, Temptation

Very good recording, which doesn't seem to have been uploaded to YouTube at all.

This features the full classical-type into NO were using in the 84-85 time period, only really heard on the Japanese '85 gigs.

Near the end of the instrumental intro.

BS: "...two"

PH: "Volume up."

The Perfect Kiss

Unusual kick drum sound, and a very hollow bass sound. At about 3:30 the sound clears up a bit as I assume whoever's in front of the recorder moves out, but soon afterwards, it goes back to the state it was before.

Ceremony follows.

Bernard says something at the end I can't make out.

Chosen Time

Some chanting afterwards.

Leave Me Alone

BS: "Thanks very much."

Feedback squall.

BS: "Can anyone fix this stupid fucking mikestand. Anybody got a screw?"

The Him and Thieves Like Us follow.  The latter starts about 10 seconds in on the best-sounding recording, see below.

The latter ends with the descending keyboard line, like on the record, instead of Hooky's usual bassplay.

A bit of riffing after Everything's Gone Green. Midway through the song (about 2:15) Bernard yells out something (probably to his soundman) that's buried in reverb.

Confusion

At 1:14, Bernard calls out for high-hat and sequencers down, if I can make out what he's saying.

lyric: "Con-fucking-fusion".

Age Of Consent

Another break in tape right at the start of Hooky's starting riff. It seems at this point the sound quality of the source improves, or it's taken from a different recording, with about a minute or so cut.  This is in fact the case, see below.

Another edit before Sunrise. 

This version still features the in-progress lyrics, with "It goes up/it goes down/it goes up and down".

It sounds like the tape slows down. Another edit.

Temptation

Tape still sounds like it runs slow here.

Bernard says something I can't make out after "It's no joke".

And features a "last fucking time".

Versions

AUD #1 - LVN Sony TCS-370 / Sony ECM-990LT,  ANA0.  This source can be heard at the start of 'Thieves Like Us', and was recorded more distantly than the others.

AUD #2 - unknown taper, ANA2.  What the YouTube share uses, as it's the best-sounding of the three.

AUD v3 - unknown taper/generation.  This source can be heard at the start of 'Age Of Consent', and is quite a bit more distant/worse-sounding than the other two.