IQ
"Barbell Is Out"
The Royal Standard, Walthamstow London E17
2nd November 1984 
Audience Recording 
CRAPIQ29

CD1 - 53'26"
1.   It All Stops Here - 8'33"
2.   Just Changing Hands - 6'00"
3.   Widows Peak - 9'36"
4.   Awake And Nervous - 7'46"
5.   The Last Human Gateway - 21'30"

CD2 - 41'37"
1.   The Thousand Days - 5'23"
2.   Barbell Is In - 5'55"
3.   The Enemy Smacks  - 16'38"
4.   Through The Corridors (Oh Shit Me) - 3'15"
5.   Relax - 5'27"
6.   Stomach Of Animal - 4'57"

Comments

This is a direct transfer from 20 year old first generation recording on good old TDK D60's. The transfer was from tape deck (Aiwa AD-F800) to Audio CD recorder, then EAC to WAV to FLAC.

The recording is a fairly good recording, which I'd rate as B, although there is some tape hiss, given the quality of the tape, and some over modulation/distortion, but this is a good represenation of the gig.

This was launch gig for the release of the 7" and 12" single Barbell Is In, and both it and the B-side (Just Changing Hands) were included in the set (the later at the expense of Magic Roundabout). 

Three encores that night - the first being Oh Shit Me (usually included in the main set.

IQ played a number of covers as encores during 1984,this night was no different with a rather funky version of Frankie's "Relax"! followed by the ever manic Stomach, for meat eating vegatarians everywhere!

Captain Ransid
November 2004


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