Mekons
2011-11-07
Fabrik
Hamburg

Church Audio CA 14 Cardioids > Sony RH1 (PCM-mode) > Hi-MD > Sonic Stage > wav > Audacity (level adjustments, trackmarking, some leveller for loud clapping) > TLH > flac level 8

recorded 4 m from stage, centre

01. banter
02. Thee Olde Trip To Jerusalem
03. Diamonds
04. banter
05. Geeshie
06. Calling All Demons
07. banter
08. Afar & Forlorn
09. Space In Your Face
10. Learning To Live On Your Own
11. banter
12. Honey Bear
13. banter
14. Give Me Wine Or Money
15. I Fall Asleep
16. Heaven & Back 
17. Arthur's Angel
18. Orpheus
19. Hole In The Ground
20. Hard To Be Human

- encore -
21. banter
22. Wild And Blue (chicken tikka variant)
23. Last Dance
24. Big Zombie


Finally I found out why I'd never seen the Mekons live. They didn't play Hamburg for 17 years. Learned a few more things about curry, eels, Belgian sailors and German toilets.But I have no idea how to help Ms. Timms in her quest for karl Marx etymological notebooks.
Certainly not an exceptional Mekons show, neither exceptionally long nor extended banter, the venue far from full on a monday night, but the band delivered in good spirits.

Hardly any chatter, just giggles and outright laughter. Not much remastering necessary, lowered the recording levels once into the first song, when I realized that I was into a louder show than expected, reverted that, applied some limiter to the close clapping. I changed the md during the encore break in hope of a longer encore, the gap was joined seemless, you'll notice a slight change in the clapping, otherwise a nice recording.

Torrent contains artwork and the lyrics of the songs played at the Hamburg show (and more or less at the other "Ancients & Modern" shows) taken from:
http://mekons.de/lyrics/lyrics.htm

- thanks to Nobby for this and the work he puts into all those informative Mekons sites:
http://www.mekons.de/mekonhom.htm
