Robyn Hitchcock & The Imaginary Band - Clear Spot/Captain Beefheart Tribute Relentless Garage, Highbury, London, UK 2011-06-03 Recorded and mastered by Pike1957: Left of centre (in front of Terry Edwards), Right at the front Church Audio CA-11C Cardioids -> Church Audio ST-9000 Preamp -> Sony PCM-M10 (48khz, 24 bit) -> Adobe Auditon 3.0 (Volume adjustments) -> Audacity (track splits, resampling) -> FLAC (level 8, 44.1khz, 16bit) -> you Setlist: 01 - [intro] 02 - Lo Yo Yo Stuff 03 - Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man 04 - Too Much Time 05 - Circumstances 06 - My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains 07 - Sun Zoom Spark 08 - Clear Spot 09 - Crazy Little Thing 10 - Long Neck Bottles 11 - Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles 12 - Big Eyed Beans From Venus 13 - Golden Birdies (takes 1 to 10) 14 - [encore break] 15 - [band intros] 16 - Sure Nuff N Yes I Do 17 - Electricity This was the first of the three Clear Spot shows I saw this week-end, and it was great show. Better than anyone could reasonably expect. I met a member of the Fireeater List (Beefheart email group) the following day (at Wychwood) who gave me an email that Mike Barnes, author of the definitive Beefheart biog, had written. Mike had been sceptical beforehand but was mightily impressed by the performance. The recording has come out nice and clear. Only issues are that the vocals aren't quite prominent enough, and Jenny is two far back in the mix. There is no chit chat to spoil the recording though. The following day at Wychwood I got another decent recording, but is was marred by the wind. On the Sunday I think I nailed it with a great recording in Bath. I also got video of the whole of that, so if I can work out how, a DVD will be in the offing (but I'll put the audio up first). The Imaginary Band were: Robyn Hitchcock (Captain Beefheart) - guitar, vocals, harp, arms Terry Edwards (Zoot Horn Rollo) - guitar Paul Noble (Roy Estrada/Rockette Morton) - bass Jenny Adejayan (Winged Eel Fingerling) - cello (guitar/marimba/horn impressions), backing vocals, percussion Stephen Irvine (Ed Marimba chanelling Drumbo) - drums, handlclaps, percussion I've included a photo of a setlist I got (hand written on a paper plate) if someone fancies making some artwork for this. Turn this one up loud and enjoy! More to follow..... 01 - [intro].flac:b26ce567a1e32b6c1acaa7aa521a20e3 02 - Lo Yo Yo Stuff.flac:92fc0af9bdd252436d0dddd9f20793e9 03 - Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man.flac:3a7ca26d8576e4f99bb162ee8c1bbd15 04 - Too Much Time.flac:c2b26e04c14da77befca77e774d27da1 05 - Circumstances.flac:4b9826cc2959af10115ac8440bc32b2b 06 - My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains.flac:a51d2d2b326251b9da0789d5fe61b6da 07 - Sun Zoom Spark.flac:e50dd785f49065f761af251b8da259f0 08 - Clear Spot.flac:a16616dd4b39210260760f0975e04478 09 - Crazy Little Thing.flac:e425f3d81b146d4ee1b17435fe95a009 10 - Long Neck Bottles.flac:c9f93e0763273c4fa300a491af677709 11 - Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles.flac:2b6e402519e1553f582c0cbb99dd76b7 12 - Big Eyed Beans From Venus.flac:88d063a6d798809afcdfadf7be0cc8b1 13 - Golden Birdies.flac:d4fbd3880a9210f187a7fc56eeb4ba86 14 - [encore break].flac:997c993197e37099ee78a48f6440aac8 15 - [band intros].flac:aaa63272c10dc05859b475a438e4d17a 16 - Sure Nuff N Yes I Do.flac:c1bbeafd115d8f6bbaca96f7ac17e2db 17 - Electricity.flac:92bb51ca6014f23489ba8be678337d0e App\Http\Controllers\Api\FileDownloadController::download(): Return value must be of type string, none returned