French's Tavern 11/08/1978

by Voigt/465

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1.	[Audience] 01:22	buy track
2.	And The Following Page 03:47	buy track
3.	I Wanna Be Your Dog 03:50	buy track
4.	The Great Pretender 05:37	buy track
5.	Wax and Ash 06:30	buy track
6.	So Long As One Knows 07:49	buy track
7.	Is New Is 04:40	buy track
8.	[Audience] 01:40	buy track
9.	It's A Rainy Day 06:58	buy track
10.	If I Could Do It Again 03:16	buy track
11.	Interstellar Overdrive 10:18	buy track
12.	Lady Godiva's Operation 05:37	buy track
13.	The Old Endikot Building 06:16	buy track
14.	[Audience] 01:52	buy track
15.	The 1984 Brain Police 04:58	buy track
16.	Triple Poet (?) 04:25	buy track
17.	Why Are We Sleeping? 03:43	buy track
18.	Lifttalk (?) 07:09	buy track
19.	Coming Down 02:57	buy track
20.	Connection 04:10	buy track
21.	F1 06:20	buy track
22.	Lola Stretched And Pulled 05:24	buy track
23.	Bright 04:18	buy track
24.	Gloria Gloom 03:04	buy track
25.	The Last Bits 08:26	buy track
26.	And The Following Page (2001) 02:11	buy track
27.	I Wanna Be Your Dog (2001) 03:37	buy track
28.	The Great Pretender (2001) 05:29	buy track
29.	Wax And Ash (2001) 06:26	buy track
30.	Is New Is (2001) 04:39	buy track
31.	Interstellar Overdrive (2001) 01:12	buy track
32.	Lady Godiva's Operation (2001) 05:25	buy track
33.	The Old Endikot Building (2001) 06:45	buy track
34.	Bright (?) (2001) 03:51	buy track
35.	Red Lock (2001) 01:04	buy track
36.	Lola (2001) 00:26	buy track
37.	A Secret West (2001) 01:09	buy track
38.	State (2001) 02:23	buy track

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This release contains 2 digitised versions of our fateful gig at French's Tavern/Wine Bar on the 11th August 1978.

The 1st 25 tracks contain almost raw extractions from cassette (in HD) including all captured audience reactions, glass throwing, 'hippie' taunts, etc. This was digitised in 2022 and comes from the only cassette that actually plays now. From track 18 onwards the quality gets worse and worse and the tape is hardly playable at the end (and speeds up as well) so I have combined the last 3 tracks into one. The equipment used to record was relatively primitive and there is little EQ applied to any of these tracks so it's as raw as they come.

The last set of tracks are repeats but digitised in 2001 from a 3rd gen dub cassette edited by Peter Nelson. The quality is a little better and the excess and bad sounding tracks are omitted as well. At least it has listenable versions of the last songs we played. These are in CD standard not HD.

The cover image comes from a gig at Streatfield Press around the same time as the French's gig so contains all the same players (and Peter on the left who provided the slide show at both gigs). On the right is Bruce Stalder who left the band at the end of the night. Thanks to David Fagan for this polaroid image.

Overall I suppose it should be treated as an historical document of a particularly exciting time in our lives. Actually getting the nod to play at a venue was amazing for us and, even though we would never play there again (due to the adverse reaction), French's is steeped in inner Sydney rock history so I'm glad we have this document to 'enjoy'.

Listening back I'm surprised at the amount of cover versions we played but I suppose we didn't have that many actual songs at that stage. Most of the original material is out there improv style or largely instrumental. No doubt this added to the vitriol from non-friends in the audience. And the rolling snippets of conversation from the people near the recorder are sometimes misogynistic. Those were the times I suppose but still deplorable.

Don't pay for this if you don't want to... really.

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released February 8, 2022

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Voigt/465 Sydney, Australia

Voigt/465 were an experimental post-punk band from Sydney, Australia in the years 1975-1979.

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