Wednesday, 4 May, 1983 White Columns, New York City, New York, United States

1. Tempo House
2. Smile
3. Ludd Gang
4. Wings
5. The Classical
6. Hexen Definitive
7. I Feel Voxish
8. The Man Whose Head Expanded
9. Kicker Conspiracy
10. Look Know.
11. Backdrop

NOTES

• 01:07:46
• Audience Recording
• Tempo House and Smile appear on the 1984 Speed Trials LP on Homestead and Sanctuary’s expanded Perverted By Language
• Video of Smile appears on the Perverted By Language Bis Video/DVD

REVIEW

Slightly tinny back of the hall recording not the highest fidelity in the world but you get a good sense of the intense brutalism of this iteration of the group.

There are several versions of this circulating.

The Man Whose Head Expanded has a false start.

Notable 13 minute version of Backdrop

Previously unseen footage of Tempo House was unearthed on 30th January 2018 via The Quietus

Review from East Village Eye :

Mark E. Smith spoke about 1983’s NYC Speed Trials festival in a 1989 interview:
“That band [1983 incarnation of The Fall] inspired all those what I call Fall rip-offs, like Sonic Youth; we did the Speed Trials and all that. It spawned a whole movement. I’m only realizing this now. You talk to people like Live Skull, a band I admire a lot. They said, “where can we get you (sic) tape?” I was shocked at how many groups were following us from New York. About 10 of the groups at the Speed Trials were really into the Fall. But for the previous year or two nobody was talking about us much.”