Set Listing
01. Here On the Eerie
02. Radio Love
03. Cherry Tree
04. Constant Blue
05. Diana
06. Green Isaac
07. The Devil Has All the Best Tunes
08. Hallelujah
09. Lions In My Own Garden (Exit Someone)
Audience recording, good to excellent quality, vocals very slightly muffled.
“Despite the name, Prefab Sprout are not the bunch of wacky funsters suggested. Their current single ‘Lions In My Own Garden: Exit Someone’/’Radio Love’ gives a truer impression in its collected and sensitive performance.
“Prefab Sprout’s songs are melodic enough to capture a good audience but at the same time they retain sufficient individuality in their lyrical rhythm and content to make them satisfying.
“However, tonight everything seems to be played rather frantically, with a certain nervous excitement and some of the subtle allusions rather the playthings of the wind. Bewildered rather than disappointed, I head for home, having consumed enough greens to keep me healthy.
“The Prefab Four appear to be Newcastle’s great white hope as Rough Trade are issuing their creditable single nationally, giving the band a real opportunity for wider success. Perhaps those lions are going to rise from their slumber.”
Susan Convery, NME, July 16th, 1983
“Mmm… I think it might have been me who recorded this. Nobody was that interested in the band – they were unknown – especially, the girls I was sitting at a table with: I remember them chatting through it and clinking glasses. It’s a good set but it wasn’t much fun for the band playing to a disinterested crowd. The other Kitchenware bands had a similar experience playing to ‘cool’ set, which roughly translates to ‘not interested in music’.
“The gig took place in the small function room at Newcastle Tiffanys (part of the Mecca chain) and seen in the film Get Carter. The room was usually called ‘The Leaf Room’. Possibly there was a time when it was called the Hacienda Room but there’s no connection to the Manchester club.” “eccentricsleevenotes” blogger
