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Richard Thompson - Parn Seibo, Tokyo 1/25/87 (1987)

Track listing:
  1. Man In Need 3:25
  2. Valerie 3:05
  3. When The Spell Is Broken 6:39
  4. Two Left Feet 3:58
  5. Jennie 5:56
  6. A Bone Through Her Nose 6:06
  7. Home Is Where The Heart Is Clive Gregson 5:12
  8. White Friar's Hornpipe/Shreds And Patches Clive Gregson 4:53
  9. Al Bowly's In Heaven 6:28
  10. Fire In The Engine Room 3:30
  11. Calvary Cross 9:46
  12. Wall Of Death 3:41
  13. You Don't Say 4:21
  14. Like A Man Clive Gregson 5:19
  15. Tear Stained Letter 7:52

Notes

Richard Thompson
Christine Collister
Clive Gregson
Ruari McFarlane
Gerry Conway
John Kirkpatrick

This was Richard and the Band's second trip to Japan, the first being May of '86 playing Osaka and Tokyo, this trip finds them playing 4 nights in Tokyo at the Parn Seibo (Parco Theatre). Here we have the last show of the four nights in excellent pre-Dat days quality.

This show could be affectionately called "Food Poisoning In Tokyo" as Richard has to leave the stage twice due to feeling ill from apparently a case of food poisoning. Clive steps up nicely with the not often played "Home Is Where The Heart Is" and the 1986 tour standard "Like A Man".

Due to Richard feeling ill, the show is a bit shorter than normal but you sure can't tell it in his playing, always the professional he comments about feeling ill but never lets on in his playing.