Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard
Shotgun Wedding
Phonecian Club Sydney Australia
3rd September 1994

DAT with Sony ECM-909A mic -> TDK SA-90 -> Harmon Kardon tape deck -> SB Live -> Audacity -> FLAC

This was recorded on Lydia Lunch's tour of Australia in 1994. A few days earlier she had done a spoken word show at The Metro with Rowland S Howard doing an acoustic support. I seeded Rowland's acoustic set a few months back from that. Once again the DAT recording was transfered to tape because DAT tapes cost a lot of money in those days!!

Having not listened to this in 13 years it is a surprisingly good audience recording that really captures the sound of the gig. The Phonecian Club was quite a cavernous, high ceiling room that still had a nice sound, though very "live".

This night it seemed every one of Sydney's goths all came to see their queen Lydia Lunch, yet not really knowing why? Overall they seemed a bit bemused by it and only satisfied by her yelling dark stuff at them during the last song before the encore. That was kinda fun though!

The black clad goth audience didn't make for the most dynamic audience either and after Hugo Race doing a really dull, long and dreary support and the late hour I don't think there was much of an audience vibe to play to. However the band all seemed to kind of enjoy themselves, well as much as Lydia seems to enjoy things :).

I can't remember who else was in the band though I do remember that Spencer P Jones was on second guitar. Also Lydia was in a red sort of ball gown. I wore a green shirt....

As far as the tracklist... my Shotgun Wedding CD is buried away so I can't work out the track names....sorry ... however..."hans_list" who has thanksfully been reminding me to actually get round to transfering this tape assures me he will provide names for them so thanks in advance. I also apologise if my tracking is a bit incorrect.. it was hard to tell with some of the segues.

1. In My Time Of Dying
2. Solar Hex
3. Track03
4. Pigeon Town
5. Track05
6. Track06
7. Track07
8. Track08
9. Track09
10. Track10
11. Track11
12. Track12
13. Track13
14. Track14
15. Track15