NO: 22 OCT 1985 Guildhall - Preston
Ceremony, The Perfect Kiss, Love Vigilantes, As It Is When It Was, Sooner Than You Think, State Of The Nation, Broken Promise, Subculture, 586, Sunrise, Your Silent Face
Soundcheck (35 minutes): Your Silent Face, State Of The Nation, and more…
The first version of mine was a somewhat muddy audience tape, to be augmented by a copy of UKBT's master. So this writeup is based on the first copy, augmented with listening to the master...which ran about 70 cents too fast...and it sounds like the online copy is derived from that.
The audience is very raucous for this one, but it takes a while for NO to notice. :-)
Ceremony
BS: "Hello, everyone." [this is right when tape starts]
BS: "We'll start the set tonight with a very old song. It's called Ceremony."
(they play the song)
The master copy seems to have taken a bit of damage during the first part of Ceremony, so there's a couple of garbled sections, but it's still very listenable. There's no evidence that the band stopped playing when the pint of lager landed on Barney.
BS: "Thanks a lot."
[harder to make out on the master copy]
The Perfect Kiss
(after song finishes)
BS: "Thank you very much"
Love Vigilantes follows.
As It Is When It Was
BS: "Thank you very much. We're gonna play another new song now, I'd tell you what it's called but I can't pronounce the title when I'm pissed."
He's apparently joking, as he goes on to announce it!
BS: "As...As It Is When It Was"
The first part on the UKBT master copy has a few glitches.
lyric: "Whatever I think of you
I know the sky will shatter you
Whatever I think of you
I know the matter will also find[?] too"
[the last line here appears to be slurred and hard to make out]
Sooner Than You Think
BS: "Play in tune, eh?"
State Of The Nation follows.
Broken Promise
BS: "Now We're gonna play..gonna play another new one. The song is called Broken Promises, and we wrote it this week..."
(the plural is present in the announcement, and is not a transcription error)
This song is premiered at this concert. The lyrics are markedly different than the released version, especially in the chorus, and has a unique guitar/bass interplay not present in the release, as at this stage it's half an instrumental.
I picked out a couple lyrics:
"I'm so glad I found you/
I don't know what to think about you"
and
"I'm so mad about you/
I don't know what to think about you"
Nice orgasmic scream by some female audience member in between Subculture and 586. The UKBT version has an edit at this point.
586 ends with feedback that segues into Sunrise, very nice.
On the UKBT version somebody goes "duh nuh nuh na na na na na" a couple of times before Hooky's comment, and there's some talking right up until the guitar/drums come in.
PH: "You make it sound even fucking worse."
(can't quite make this out, alas)
They play the song.
PH: "You sheep-shaggers...[grumble]..."
BS: "I see you stopped throwing drinks at us...[a loud white noise sort of sound obscures the rest of the sentence, but it's discernable on the UKBT version] Did it on purpose. Anyway, as I saying, I see you've stopped throwing drinks now. Why you have stopped throwing drinks is what I want to know. Cuz that's what life is all about."
Your Silent Face
BS: "They blame me when it goes wrong. A bit of vocal up..."
BS: "Thank you very much...[can't make out rest]"
Some insight as to what may have been said from a comment left on setlist.fm:
Ageingpunk (Attendee)
Who recalls the terrible fight in the crowd? One large gang of topless thugs completely hammering one innocent member of the audience. Bernard said at the end “don’t ever ask us to play here again”.
Soundcheck
Starts out with audience chatter.
Your Silent Face
An couple of aborted takes.
PH: "Is that sequencer echro really loud over there or is it out front? Barn? Is that sequence echo really loud...because. we got...
BS: "Yes, it is really loud."
PH: "Could you take it down through the side fill, Charlie."
PH: "Sequencer echo."
BS: "Sequencer echo, compared to the original."
PH: "Right."
A bit later on....
PH: "One, two."
Bernard throws in scratch lyrics for this one.
(after the song finishes)
Hooky mutters something.
PH: "Have you had it done(?)"
Bernard laughs.
PH: "Face it, he doesn't know what the fuck he's going. We don't blame you. Strays and waifs. Waifs and strays, lad, this way."
Hooky plays the bassline to State Of The Nation and then does a vocal soundcheck into the mic. Next, it's Bernard's turn at the guitar.
During the intro, Hooky comments about the mix:
PH: "One two. Just bring the mix down a little...shall we?"
Bernard whoops.
PH: "The mix down...the mix."
The take stops.
PH: "Does the emulator go [makes a duh duh det sound]"
Another take commences, with more comments about Hooky needing the Emulator...and adjusting the mix through the side fill some more.
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