Live To Air 2SER : Sydney University Open Day 14/07/1984
01 [intro]
02 CSIRO
03 Two Unbidden Cups
04 [releases]
05 Harry Wong's Cat
06 When Was Jesus Born
07 [special guests]
08 Look Within Upon Everything
Last Performance : Hip Hop Club October 1984
09 A Sweaty XMas
10 Revolution
11 Green Tea
12 Nights In A Glass
13 Harry Wong's Cat
14 My Little Laugh Till It Hurts Babies
15 Two Unbidden Cups
16 Man From El Paso
17 The Road To Gundegai
18 When Was Jesus Born
19 The Drowning Man
20 Salad Days
21 The Cedar Bench
22 S-s-s-single Bed
23 Green Tea
24 CSIRO
25 Who's Gonna Help Me Now
26 When Was Jesus Born
27 OK Fascist Get Outta My Way
These tapes really pushed the
limits of my 'skills' in sound engineering and the results aren't all that
good but, as an archival resource they're fine. The 2SER cassette has some
weird radio enhanced ring modulation on the high end whilst the one from
the Hip Hop Club has awful muddy sound and a creaky left channel (that I
excluded from the final cd-r).
In any case, it's probably better to listen to the studio
efforts as these don't have off notes (and the backings are mostly the
same anyway - except for 'Nights in a Glass' which has a cute synth line
up high at the end). But then you'd miss out on all the sparkling 'tween
song repartee... and you wouldn't want that. You'd also miss out on the
later Patrick written songs like "When was Jesus Born" - a New
Zealand gospel track; "Look Within Upon Everything" - the finale
of the weirdly nice radio play we completed during 1984;
"Revolution" - a heavy metal monster with Michael Filewood on
guitar and a bluesy reframe; "The Drowning Man" - with the faux
pedal steel and, most importantly, the over-the-top, grand Guignol goodbye
to NNS that is "OK Fascist" (oh, and not forgetting the
paraphrase of 'hey, DJ won't you play that song, keep me dancing all night
long' within the 2nd version of 'Green Tea'). But I'm not recommending it,
really.
