Saturday, 27 June, 1992 – Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Somerset, England

1. Two Face
2. Time Enough at Last
3. Idiot Joy Showland
4. Free Range
5. Everything Hurtz
6. Gentlemen’s Agreement
7. So-Called Dangerous
8. U.S. 80’s-90’s
9. Ed’s Babe
10. Mr. Pharmacist
11. Big New Prinz
12. The Birmingham School of Business School
13. Edinburgh Man
14. High Tension Line

NOTES

1. 1 hour 4 minutes
2. Final documented performance of So-Called Dangerous

REVIEW

A full tilt muscular performance from the annual mud fest in the ankle of rural England. The post cold war version of “Glasto” – sans the New Age Travellers – taking on a more commercial ethos with the embourgeoisement of rock and roll into some sort of chart thing. Remember this was time of crazy Madchester and there is a sort of contemporary Mancunian feel to the line-up with James following The Fall,  replacing the unavailable Stephen Patrick from Stretford. The Beebs shortish audio of the event unfortunately neglects to feature the group. Similarly a 2CD NME compilation of live cuts from the festival – “In a field of their own” – fails to include The Fall.

Mark’s acerbic “OK, so we’ve been banned from fucking Glastonbury for ten years and they invited us back and we’re supporting the Levellers. Marvellous, in’t it? The Police are coming out as well, in a minute.” is typically inaccurate – The Levellers had played on the previous (Friday) night and The Police were not playing at the festival. The aforementioned James were followed by Lou Reed, and Shakespear’s Sister.

Unfortunately there are some drop-outs on a very scabrous reading of “US 80s-90s”, and the sound deteriorates awfully  from Mr Pharmacist onwards with some serious wow and flutter on the copy I have and essentially becomes almost impossible to listen to. I am trying to source a better copy.

Despite the deterioration on the last five tunes this is probably one of the best captured live performance of the year with the music having a rawer, and faster edge to it.