THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
Live at the Sporting, Athens, Greece 9/17/82
*** Speed Corrected Version ***

01 Hamlet(Pow pow pow)
02 Sonny's Burning
03 6" Gold Blade
04 Deep In The Woods
05 The Dim Locator
06 Fears Of Gun
07 Still Burning
08 Release The Bats
09 She's Hit
10 Dead Joe
11 Funhouse - REMOVED - officially released
12 Junkyard (incomplete - false start)
13 Junkyard
14 Loose

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This was originally seeded by tantxu in 2005 and more recently reseeded by _tunic_. These files unfortunately had serious speed issues. I have done a speed correction on those files to put them back to their correct pitch. The first half were approx 165 cents sharp while the second half from She's Hit on were around 100 cents sharp. These files also required a slight 1dB boost in amplitude to match the first half more closely in volume. No EQ or NR was performed on any of these files.

I have also re-tracked the files as Release The Bats was joined onto Still Burning and overall it was sloppy. This is why there are 14 files rather than the 13 in the original seed. The whole show runs nearly 2.5minutes longer due to the speed correction as well. Note that there is no new material! I have also removed the small gaps that occured between songs. \

Also Dead Joe is put back in the correct location in the show before the encores... its sound is terrible so if you want to ignore it put it last.

I have no idea of the lineage as this doesn't seem to have been reported in the previous torrents. The original source is definately a SBD tape though it is quite raggedy... hopefully a better source appears one day.

For two photos from this gig.

http://home.iae.nl/users/maes/cave/pix/fans/tax.html

**** Note: The track Funhouse has been removed because it has been released on the official "LIVE 1981-82" CD (Shock records and 4AD in 1999). So go buy that record.... ****