The excellence of Egg_Crisis shares continues to amaze me, and you, I suppose. This time he has a request, since the first of the two videos is dubbed with the sound of some demos, if someone has a recording of the actual concert, audience or soundboard, please contact us. With that he can restore the sound so that it's from the actual concert.
VHS(Sony E180 & TDK HS E180, both unknown gen) > LG DVD/VCR combo > DVD-RW disc > TMPGenc DVD author(add chapters & menu,no re-encode) > VIDEO_TS folder
PAL DVD
Menu
Chapters at the start of each track
Video: MPEG2 Video 720x576 (4:3) 25.00fps 6556Kbps
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz stereo 256Kbps
1985.12.05 - Camera on a tripod, fixed position (no zooms), audio for tracks 5,9,10 from soundboard...
The rest of the tracks have new sound dubbed on from demos (except tracks 4 & 8 which might be the single versions). This video is supposed to be a promotape made by the band.
Why would someone dub new sound on though? You can hear by the 3 untouched tracks that the sound is perfectly fine, and the dubbed songs aren't a major improvement in sound quality, so why do it?
I have a theory... compare Julianne's vocals on the 3 undubbed tracks with how she sings on the others. Her singing style seems slightly different. On the 3 untouched tracks she sounds a bit like Siouxsie. I'm wondering if, at the start of 1986 she made a conscious attempt to change her singing style, and the only video they had of themselves had to be redubbed when they needed it as promotional material. That's just my theory though, I've not heard any of the other 1985 gigs in existence.
I was once told that Underground had the camera so people could watch the bands on a TV in the bar, but I've no idea if this is true.
Ghost Dance played their second ever gig at the Underground on this same night. I'm not aware of a video of their set existing, not even a rumour of a video existing.
An audience recording supposedly exists of AAE's set that night, I don't have it otherwise I'd have redubbed the correct audio onto this video. If anyone has the audience recording and wants to contribute (assuming it's not just a tape of this video sountrack) then contact me via Dark Circle Room and I can add the correct audio to the vid.
1986.02.20 - Camera on a tripod, fixed position (no zooms), audio from soundboard.
All original sound thankfully, although there's 3 edits so it's not the complete gig, there's at least 3 songs missing.
Uploaded by Egg_Crisis for Dark Circle Room
Underground, Croydon, UK, 1985.12.05
01 End Of The Day
02 No Eden
03 Heaven
04 In The Clouds
05 Will You Find It
06 Angel
07 Another Door
08 Love Leads Nowhere
09 Suppertime
10 End Of The Day
Length - 39:04
Underground, Croydon, UK, 1986.02.20
01 End Of The Day
02 Heaven
03 Will You Find it
04 Angel
05 Our Summer
06 Another Door
07 End Of The Day
Length - 25:34