NO: 28 FEB 1986 St. George's Hall, Bradford

 

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Setlist

State Of The Nation, 586, Broken Promise, Bizarre Love Triangle, Lonesome Tonight, Sooner Than You Think, Love Vigilantes, Face Up, Temptation, Ceremony, The Perfect Kiss

Soundcheck (50 minutes): Bizarre Love Triangle (instrumental), Shellshock (instrumental), Broken Promise, Sooner Than You Think (instrumental), State Of The Nation

Originally, I had only a part of the soundcheck, Bizarre Love Triangle and Shellshock (instrumentals).

The BLT portion is just the synths, but the Shellshock s/c includes drum effects and some guitar.

Somebody shouts out in between Shellshock and the next one, something about last night being really good.  The next one features an amazing guitar sound reminiscent of Broken Promise.

Total of about 14 minutes.

(tape is a few generations off the master, sounds like, but still very listenable)

NOTE:  This a bit of a discrepancy between this listing and what we actually have, as the actual soundcheck I have also includes bits of The Perfect Kiss and Your Silent Face, with Shellshock and Sooner Than You Think being sourced from an amalgamation of '86 soundchecks.  What I was able to assemble is shared here:

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Gig writeup:

Funeral For A Viking is the intro tape. Barney says something else mired in deep echo/reverb.

BS: "This is the State Of The Nation"

(which they perform)

BS: "Thank you very much, thank you very much. Tonight's not[?] about ..[?].. to get some atmosphere a bit, please" (can't quite make this out)

5-8-6

BS: "Turn the fucking lights down!"

(NO perform 586)

BS: "Thank you very much. This is a...eh, a new song called Broken Promise

PH: "1-2-3-4"

Bass riff is still different (superior in my opinion) to the released version.

lyric: "If you're right and you're simply there" (instead of 'sinful'), "my father" (instead of 'for God's sake you') "must be wrong."

Second verse seems improvised, and is hard to make out.

Oh I don't know why people get stupid
I don't know why ...cupid
I don't know why my life's[?] been led. I don't know why smiling...

Bizarre Love Triangle

BS: "This is another new song, it's called "Bizarre Love Triangle", it's all about the News Of The World"

Vocals are similar to the Dublin '86 versions.

A bit of feedback greets the welcome arrival of Lonesome Tonight. End of the first verse is just vocals and drums, very neat!

There's also some variation at the end of the second verse, but I can't make it out. This version is sadly a bit under par compared to their usual good effort.

The Order than play Sooner Than You Think without incident.

Love Vigilantes

PH: "Ready?" More feedback.

BS: "Thank you very much."

Descending bass riff before the next song, Face Up

lyric: "We were young and we were pure and life was just an open door... FUCK YOU!".

The opening salvo of Temptation includes squalls of feedback.

And of course, "it's the last fucking time".

More feedback between this and the penultimate song, Ceremony.

BS: "Thank you very much, thanks."

Ends with Hooky's bass and a touch off feedback."

Somebody yells, I can't make out. Funeral For A Viking resumes for a bit, but soon we are to our encore track.

The Perfect Kiss

BS: "Terry, this one's not right. You don't want this one to sound clear[?]. Turn the vocals up as well, Ed. Turn up the sequencer up, Ed. Turn the synth up, turn the bass up, the guitars and drums."

BS: "Thanks...very much, thank you very much, thank you very much, good night!"

Punter gets a couple of words out before the tape cuts out, "Where's Bill and Jeff[?]..."

Sources

Two different audience recordings, one done by Eddie Wolfram with Aiwa CM-30s and a D6, and the other (unknown) sounding worse.  The soundcheck bit with BLT/Shellshock/Broken Promise I have misplaced and need to re-locate.