25.09.2011
UK, Birmingham, Symphony Hall
Live At Symphony Hall
very good Aud.

Disc 1: [45:00] Set 1 - "Greatest Hits"
01. Intro [1:00]
02. Rust [5:06]
03. Pride [3:17]
04. Stormy Weather [4:38]
05. Stars Are Stars [3:11]
06. Bedbugs & Ballyhoo [3:56]
07. The Fountain [4:11]
08. Never Stop [3:58]
09. In The Margins [5:43]
10. Bring On The Dancing Horses [4:42]
11. Rescue [5:13]

Disc 2: [1:07:16] Set 2 - "Ocean Rain"
01. Silver [4:12]
02. Nocturnal Me [4:40]
03. Crystal Days [2:56]
04. The Yo Yo Man [3:28]
05. Thorn Of Crowns [5:20]
06. The Killing Moon [5:08]
07. Seven Seas [4:02]
08. My Kingdom [4:37]
09. Ocean Rain [5:55]
10. Crowd [4:06]
11. Nothing Lasts Forever [7:21]
12. Lips Like Sugar [8:52]
13. Crowd [2:37]
14. The Cutter [3:56]

Lineage:
Church Audio CA-14 cardioids > SP-SPSB-11 (no bass roll off) > Edirol R-09HR > wav (24bit/44.1k)
> Audacity (hard limit applause, normalise, fades, export as 16bit/44.1k) > CDWave (tracking)
> TLH (FLAC, checksum)

Location: Recorded centrally, stalls, about 12 rows back

Notes:
There's a very brief wobble at the start of The Killing Moon when everyone finally decided to stand up and I had to join them. Barely noticeable, thankfully.

The second great show the Bunnymen have played in Birmingham in less than a year. Unfortunately I didn't tape the Crocodiles/Heaven Up Here show at the Academy last December. Musically excellent, and Mac was on imperious form, delivering a hefty verbal kicking to numerous targets throughout the show, particularly during an extended rant in the middle of Lips Like Sugar.

Six-piece band:
Ian McCulloch - vocals
Will Sergeant - guitar
plus keys/drums/bass/guitar

For much of the show, they were accompanied by a six-piece string section, all young and female. Mac seemed to be taking great delight in calling them the 'sextet'

auto_pilot, September 2011

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