Saturday, May 21, 2022

Crime and the City Solution @ Casino Cabaret, Denver CO, 1988-11-29

 


Going way back for this one.  A 34 year old show from the Lantz Barbour cassette archive.  He recorded this show back then and it was one of the tapes in a box he entrusted me to transfer for him.  I've posted a bunch of his recordings already but just got around to working on this one.

Casino Cabaret was on Welton and is now called Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom.  Not too long ago they took down the old Casino Cabaret marquee and some people were upset to be losing that historic signage.

If your not familiar. Crime and the City Solution are a Australian band started in 1977 by Simon Bonney. He is the only constant in the various memberships over the years and they relocated to London and other places over time .  He was friends with Nick Cave and the Birthday Party guys and has had members of that band in various incarnations.  This show has Mick Harvey on drums. They were mostly active until about 1990 when they disbanded and Simon put out some solo albums.  

In the mean time there was a reunion in 2011 with some touring and a new album in 2014.  Doing some research for this post I see that they have reformed again and have a bunch of 2022 dates in Europe.

Lantz managed to capture some pretty good recordings with his cassette recorder setup.  This one is another where the fidelity isn't amazing but the mics remained in a fixed position for the entirety of the performance and other than sounding a bit distant I think it's quite a nice listen.  Other than a few cassette dubs I think this has never really been widely circulated.  Enjoy


Crime and the City Solution

Casino Cabaret
Denver CO (USA)
1988-11-29

Recorded: Lantz Barbour
Transfered and Presented: SxPxDxCx
Source: Realistic SCP-29 > cassette 
Transfer: cassette > line-in > Adobe Audition > CDWave > FLAC 
Run time: (44:57.05)

01 All Must Be Love
02 The Greater Head
03 Stone
04 Angel
05 Keepsake
06 On Every Train (Grain Will Bear Grain)
07 New World
08 Hunter
09 The Dangling Man
10 KCSU Station IDs #

# from Simon Bonney, Mick Harvey, & Bronwyn Adams

Simon Bonney (vocals)
Bronwyn Adams (violin)
Alex Hacke (guitar)
Thomas Stern (bass)
Chrislo Haas (analog synthesiser)
Mick Harvey (drums)


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