Lindisfarne
liveshows series
Rock 'n' Roll Christmas
Live at Newcastle City Hall 24.12.1984
| 1. | Intro | 0:37 |
| 2. | Take Your Time | 3:59 |
| 3. | Mr Inbetween | 2:51 |
| 4. | Train in G Major | 4:04 |
| 5. | Winning The Game | 4:59 |
| 6. | A Walk In The Sea | 3:48 |
| 7. | Scarecrow Song | 4:27 |
| 8. | Mandolin King/Maggie May | 3:56 |
| 9. | Marshall Riley's Army | 3:16 |
| 10. | Rock & Roll Shoes (Chuck Willis) | 4:19 |
| 11. | Lover Not A Fighter | 7:07 |
| 12. | Lady Eleanor | 4:43 |
| 13. | Same Way Down | 3:30 |
| 14. | Who's This Guy (Song For A Stranger) | 3:56 |
| 15. | Warm Feeling | 4:03 |
| 16. | Jackal Chat | 0:59 |
| 17 | Day Of The Jackal | 3:35 |
| 18. | Stormy Weather | 3:46 |
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total running time |
69:08 |
The Lindisfarne Christmas concerts of 1984 are well preserved for posterity. Firstly, there was the BBC TV concert broadcast (until recently thought to be from Christmas Eve), the soundtrack of which is the companion liveshow disc to this. However, after 18 years, another �Christmas Eve Concert� was discovered on DAT in a Newcastle music store�s back shop - only this one really is 24th December, because Alan says so in the introduction!
Delving deeper, it was ascertained that the BBC tape was recorded on the 21/22nd, but broadcast on the 27th December. Apparently some shows were also broadcast by local radio, hence the reason for the different recordings. Just to confuse the issue more, there is believed to be a third tape of the same period hidden away in that music shop.
One or two surprises on this disc. Enter Mr. Marty Craggs � billed as the �sixth man�. We have a rare airing of �Scarecrow Song�, �I�m A Lover Not A Fighter�, the story of Jacka getting paid a lot of money for making Rod Stewart famous, and what about �Who�s This Guy�- a very embryonic version of �100 Miles To Liverpool�? It was performed some two years before appearing on the �Dance Your Life Away� album. Exclusive to this recording is the band�s cover of Chuck Willis�s �Rock And Roll Shoes� (or to give its correct title, �Hang Up My Rock �N� Roll Shoes�).
It�s a shame the DAT recording was transferred rather carelessly on to CD, involving a lot of editing � it could / should have been perfection. Having said that, the finished article is really good, and luckily for us, there are hardly any songs duplicated with the companion �84 disc, so we have another winner!
Right, who�s going to volunteer to rummage through a dusty shop basement for that missing third �Christmas Eve� tape?
Charles Orr