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Roland from BtP writes: I remember
sitting on the floor with Linda among the Imperial College students for this
fantastically-varied and extended Saturday-night gig; Mick Grabham complaining
about getting aches following the demands made on his volume-pedalling ankle
during the recent recording of Adagio; my amazement at the key-change
ending of Homburg, which I hadn't heard before; astonishment at BJ's
drum-solo. I'm not sure if the concert played with an interval, but I think it
likely (as was the case the following night),
as I'm pretty sure I recall being close to the stage at the start, and latterly
further back. Gary played guitar for 'Monde' and Chris played the piano;
he also featured on banjo for Beyond the Pale, of course.
Notes for this setlist came to light on 10 May 2008 inside a scruffy envelope:
as the illustration shows, the song-names were written down very roughly, in the
darkness of the gig, in fountain-pen on two pieces of cardboard – objets
trouvés – originally destined to be folded up to become the trays of
matchboxes. Robert's Box is written as 'Box (R)' as if to
differentiate it from Pandora's Box, although I can't have known anything
about that track at that era. No idea what is meant by the brackets after 'Samson':
looks like 'mad'. Old Black Joe was recorded as 'Ole Banjo' , The Poet
as 'Pelt' . This was such a gripping concert, however, that the author
feels no need to apologise for such solecisms.
Click here for a concert ticket from this show. A
setlist from the previous month bears many
similarities: the band were obviously enjoying playing together at such generous
length.
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