NO: 11 AUG 1985 Fox Theater - Atlanta GA

dirtypearl 

IT'S ACTUALLY THE 15 MAY 1985 PERTH GIG.

More recently, we've been having doubts that this was really Atlanta. TJ writes the following:

"Hi Sam,

I've been doing some more detective work...... I remembered seeing a poster on eBay last year for Perth Canterbury Court 15/5/85, but hadn't realised that this was an unknown gig until looking at your gigography. I know we hadn't got a recording, or so we thought....

I've done a lot of listening to the horrow show that we had previously tentatively identified as Atlanta Fox Theater 11/8/85, but I am now starting to come over heavily to the idea that this is indeed the Perth 15/5/85 show.

1. The CD I go had OZ/NZ85 written on it - this is how it was labelled when it went to David Sultan in the first place as part of that box. (the tape itself doesn't seem to reflect that)
2. The performance is very much one of a band who haven't been rehearsing, rather than one mid-tour, as would have been the case for Atlanta.
3. The setlist fits in better with what they were doing in Hong Kong/Japan/ Australia than it does the US - many overlaps with the New Orleans 12/8/85 show but hardly any with the Melbourne 17/5/85 show, which fits in with their rotation policy.
4. As It Is When It Was is better formed than the Japanese versions, but not as advanced as the US versions, and the lyrics are the same as Brisbane five days later.
5. The voice that calls out for In A Lonely Place when Bernard picks up his melodica before Hurt is not an American one....sounds more Antipodean to me.

Still in stitches over some of the performances that night - Subculture on the wrong bass string, shoddy Sunrise guitar work, an apocalyptic Chosen Time, Bernard's failure to read the setlist, Gillian striking again on STYT..... quite possibly the worst ever performance I would think!"

I've kept the old gigography date link up for historical purposes.  Having all the entries for a particular year in a single page has its uses...