Stop Sellafield: React or Die!
G-Mex Centre
Manchester, U.K.
19 - June - 1992.
Attendance: 9.000 (sellout) - "Stop Sellafield" line-up: Kraftwerk, Public Enemy, Big Audio Dynamite II, U2
Disc 1 (54:06)
01. TV: The Drug of the Nation / Intro
02. Zoo Station
03. The Fly
04. Even Better than the Real Thing
05. Mysterious Ways
06. One
07. Unchained Melody
08. Until the End of the World
09. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
10. Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World
11. Angel of Harlem
12. Dancing Queen
13. Satellite of Love (with Lou Reed)
Disc 2 (53:28)
01. Bad
02. All I Want is You
03. Bullet the Blue Sky
04. Running to Stand Still
05. Where the Streets Have No Name
06. Pride (In the Name of Love)
07. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
08. Stand by Me
09. Desire / Phone Call to Prime Minister John Major
10. With or Without You
11. Love is Blindness
Recording Equipment - History
D6 master + Sony ECM mics > CDR (not sure if this comes directly from the master or a D6 1st)
Comments
Another recording from Jeff Parkin via José Ordás (webmaster of http://dislocateu2trade.webcindario.com). I am not quite sure if this recording comes from the master, as it sounds very raw, and harsh on the high-end. I also have the "Stop Sellafield Concert" version, with different indexing, but certainly from the same source. About quality, they don't have any significant difference. The truth is that this item sounds pretty loud, but lacks more clarity, crispness, overall definition. I'd even say that quality improves after the first songs (the Achtung Baby songs). The recording brings very good balance between music and vocals. Audience noise is not an issue here, located between songs.
The "Stop Sellafield" show was organised in collaboration with Greenpeace to protest against the proposed building of a second nuclear plant in Cumbria (north-west coast of England). The Sellafield plant worked with nuclear waste and had been releasing radio-active waste into the Irish Sea (they even have reached the coasts of Denmark, Norway, Iceland or Greenland). Greenpeace had been demonstrating against Sellafield since 1978. A large protest was organised for June 20th at Sellafield plant gates. U2 had been inviting their audiences to join the demonstration during their gigs in Europe. The concert was planned as an open-air festival on June 20th, on Manchester's Heaton Park, but later re-scheduled to June 19th at G-Mex Centre due to the damage it would cause to the park. Finally, Kraftwerk, Public Enemy, Big Audio Dynamite II and U2 were part of the show, and Lou Reed joined U2 onstage to do a rendition of Satellite of Love.
About minors, there's a one-second gap between Unchained Melody and Until the End of the World. I noticed that my other bootleg (Stop Sellafield concert, from the same source) does not have this gap. There is an edit between Streets and Pride, that cuts off the last 5/6 seconds of the first song, and the 5/6 first seconds of the latter. Another little but noticeable edit occurs just before Still Haven't Found.