*Radio Broadcast, A past gone mad, Behind The Counter, Cab Driver (City Dweller), England, Free Range, Glam Racket, I'm Frank, Ladybird (Green Grass), Location of Gig, Lost In Music, M5, Manchester, Paranoia Man in Cheap Sh*t Room, The League of Bald-Headed Men, The Mixer, War, Wrong Place, Right Time

Wednesday, 8 December, 1993 Roadhouse, Manchester, England

  1. M5
  2. Behind The Counter
  3. Ladybird (Green Grass)
  4. The League of Bald Headed Men
  5. War
  6. A Past Gone Mad
  7. I’m Frank
  8. Glam-Racket
  9. Wrong Place, Right Time
  10. The Mixer
  11. Lost in Music
  12. Cab Driver
  13. Paranoia Man In Cheap Shit Room
  14. Free Range

NOTES

61 minutes

Airshot from BBC Radio 1 Sound City Series (broadcast on 29th April 1994)

Excellent recording – worth it alone for one of the only three live versions of Cab Driver.

All in all one of the better live recordings of the group – and reflecting on the similar airshot from Sheffield earlier in the year a chance to see how the music had progressed in the intervening eight months.

Notably there is a no Mark on “Cab Driver” relying as it does on samples from “A Part of America :Therein” and apart from a contribution from Karl relatively little vocally on “Paranoid” – the concluding “Free Range” is simply breath-taking with an immense wall of sound emerging from Craig’s guitar.

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