Not A Rebel Song

Maysfield Leisure Centre

Belfast, Northern Ireland.

20 - December - 1982.

Attendance: 3.000 (sellout)

Disc 1 (44:19)

01. Surrender

02. I Threw A Brick Through A Window

03. A Day Without Me

04. Sunday Bloody Sunday

05. I Fall Down (fades out)

06. New Year's Day (fades in)

07. Fire

08. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock

09. Gloria

10. A Celebration

11. Sunday Bloody Sunday

Comments

Decent sound quality overall. Recording is pretty muddy, and lacks a bit of clarity. I got it from Yauckt, who had a tape and converted it to WAV files, then remastered them, and put into APE the 11 songs. These are his comments:

01. Surrender
02. I threw a brick through a window
03. A day without me
04. Sunday bloody sunday (a)
05. I fall down (fade out)
06. New year's day (fade in)
07. Fire (b)
08. 11 o'clock tick tock (c)
09. Gloria 
10. A celebration
11. Sunday bloody sunday (d)

(a) : intro speech is cut. 
(b) : wildly cut on last notes
(c) : starts violently during the solo and there's a skip during the end of the solo 
(d) : Only 3 minutes of the song are present, it fades out during the solo

Pretty hard to find show. I was surprised by the odd tracklisting but everything present on the tape was from Belfast for sure. There was numerous cuts and fades i tried to fix. I just let the odd junction between Fire and 11 O'clock. A lot of work was done on this tape transfer. Actually a slight hiss remains on side 2 starting at 11 O'clock). The second Sunday is not complete and is surprisingly present twice this night. During some speech, you hear some noise reduction occuring on the audience noise (which is hopefully not disturbing at all during the songs). All these things make easily think this is a pretty high gen tape. Anyway, the result is pleasant, not the best thing ever heard of course, a lack of real clarity, but anyway, a good audience recording of a pretty special and hard to find item in its entirety. I never saw more than the 6 first songs on any traders lists. There's by moments an odd sound coming on, not often and not distracting, either.

The famous speech about Sunday Bloody Sunday is cut, although you can hear a bit of it at the end of A Day Without Me. Then, Sunday Bloody Sunday cuts in. I Fall Down contains a rare intro, an unknown (for me) song performed by Bono, which makes this item a bit more special. I Fall Down fades out, and New Year's Day fades in. As Yauckt wrote, Fire is wildly cut at the end, and then, 11 O'Clock Tick Tock cuts in during the guitar solo. This guitar solo contains a skip that cuts off a few seconds. The band played an extended version of the song with snippets and nice crowd participation. Last song, Sunday Bloody Sunday (played twice) only lasts 3 minutes, fading out during the guitar solo. It can be heard from time to time a little digi-noise (the odd sound that Yauckt explained). Quite rare item, and very enjoyable, despite of all these inconveniences.