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The Damned - Locarno Ballroom, Portsmouth 1977-03-20 (1977)

Track listing:
  1. I Feel Alright 3:29
  2. Born To Kill 2:48
  3. Fan Club 2:54
  4. Neat Neat Neat 2:46
  5. Sick Of Being Sick 2:35
  6. Stretcher Case 1:51
  7. Help 1:30
  8. New Rose 1:24
  9. New Rose 0:58
  10. Stab Yor Back 0:57
  11. So Messed Up 2:33
  12. Fish 1:51

Notes


The Damned 20th March 1977
Locarno Ballroom, Portsmouth, UK

I recorded this show myself, and the whatchamacallit is -

my original master, (Sony chrome cassette), played in Sony Pro Walkman, via hi-fi lead > Nero Wave Editor > save as FLAC/FLA (level 8) > you.

I was on the balcony that night, with my stereo recorder, and the tape sounds just fine to me - or at least, it sounds exactly like the Damned, who I saw lotsa times.

This was the tour where they supported Marc Bolan, their first excursion after the Anarchy tour (if memory serves..). This was the last date on the tour.

01 I Feel Alright & Born To Kill
02 Fan Club
03 Neat Neat Neat
04 I Feel Sick
05 I Feel Sick (rest of)
06 Stretcher Case
07 Help & New Rose
08 New Rose & Stab Yor Back & So Messed Up
09 (encore) Fish

OK, slightly odd-looking tracklist - I accidentally cut "I Feel Sick" into 2 because it looked like 2 tracks in the wave editor. If you play it/burn it as continuous, (no 2-second gap), no problem.
Two entries for "New Rose" as they messed the song up first time, so they did it again.
Some of the tracks are very hard to separate, or just aren't separate, so I haven't chopped it up. I don't see any great need to chop up a 27-minute set, anyway! (discuss..)

My Nero saves FLAC files as ".FLA", which has given some downloaders extra work to do, to listen to it in their WinAmp or whatever. So, I tried doing SHNs in Nero, and it really messes that up - I won't bore you - so anyway, you should be able to burn to CD with no trouble, then listen to that!