12" Picture sleeve
King Is White And In The Crowd instrumental is taken from the Touch Tape
The CD Live In Glasgow 1982 also features this concert but doesn't include the bonus instrumental.
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- Tracks
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- Format
- Double LP in black and white picture sleeve.
- Release Information
- SM
- Concert Source
- Tiffany's, Glasgow, Scotland, 21st December, 1982 (Not 5th December as stated on the sleeve).
- Touch Tape (Tracks marked *)
- Quality
- Tiffany's: 7/10
- Touch Tape: 7/10
- Additional Information
- "Last show of 1982 and this is Glasgow. This show tonight is being recorded live." And so
another Simple Minds concert was recorded which, unfortunately, hasn't appeared as an
official release.
- Again there's a marked change in the band since their last bootlegged appearance on A Voyage
To Remember. Gone is Mike Ogletree and his light percussive style (used primarily
over extended intros of several tracks). He's been replaced by the no-nonscence Mel Gaynor
who's given the band a stronger and more authoriatian style.
- Also gone is most of the back catalogue. During this gig the band played the whole of the
New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84) (sans the instrumental Somebody Up There Likes You), plus
their previous single releases.
- A slower I Travel opens the set. Not the uncontrolled rush it normally is, this version was
more restrained and better for it. Mel Gaynor's playing is instantly recognisable. Again
Jim was signing the new lyrics : "Gimme some fire, fire, FIRE and tacking on the song's
original ending : "Make love to the criminals. America has a language problem...".
- A rare performance of Colour's Fly And Catherine Wheel follows. It's got a great opening,
full of interesting effects from Charlie. In fact, the whole song is extended, and Jim inserted some interesting
lyrics during the end of the song : "Another poor boy cries, another poor boy cries, walking home!"
- Hunter And The Hunted was a straight rendition of the album version, as was Glittering
Prize and Promised You A Miracle. Since the New Gold Dream album, the songs
had not had time to change much.
- The longest song of the evening had to be Celebrate. This was now a huge slab of a song,
with some new intresting and subtle riffs from Charlie at the start of the song. During the track, there's
some great drone effects and improvisations from Charlie and Mick, with Jim providing vocal improvisations
during the end : "Gotta get out of this place, Gotta get out of this place, to far away".
The American which followed, didn't share the same improvisational nature, but was still the
extended version.
- King Is White And In The Crowd also had a great, different sounding opening, before
launching into the album version of the song. The ending was great with Charlie and Mel just accompanying
Jim : "Lost in the crowd, so deep in the crowd, lost in the crowd, so deep in the crowd."
- Someone Somewhere In Summertime, again the extended version with Charlie's opening
solo, had gained an 'double skip' beat in the middle of the song. And Big Sleep was also
showing some changes, with Charlie adding some more different ideas and riffs. The song featured a great,
drawn out ending with just the keyboards and Jim : "Forever More". As the audience cheer at
the end of the song Jim cries "And the New Gold Dream comes home to rest in Glasgow" before
the band break into the title track of the album. Jim changed the lyrics slightly in places
"New Gold Dreamer... and Glasgow TAKES" whilst singing the extended version of the song
"She is your friend, until the bitter end." Several false endings finish a great, condensed
version of the song.
- "This has been the best year of our lives. I hope next year is the best of yours. This is called
Love Song". And the band are off again. Less of an extended version than before - Mel Gaynor simply
gets on with the track.
- Simple Minds conclude with Sweat In Bullet, the song sweeping away
first with Mel, Mick and then Derek. Mick and Charlie are particularly good on this song. "Thank you
to China Crisis. Thank you, thank you, ... , thank you for the good times"
- The bootleg finishes with an extra bonus, an instrumental version of King Is White And In The
Crowd. This exclusive originally appeared on a Touch Tape (sold with Touch
Magazine) and featured the unreleased instrumental with inserts of an interview between Jim Kerr and
Gary Mouat on Brighton Seafront in 1982. The instrumental version is the album version (without the
lyrics), but the interview segments are extremely badly recorded, and detract and spoil this instrumental.
- This bootleg captures one of the earliest shows featuring the New Gold Dream material and
is recommended.
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