The local one for me at the time. The Brighton Conference Centre, a cavernous box of a venue with awful sound. The Centre is not a patch on the Dome, but at the time, bigger bands favoured the larger capacity of the Brighton Centre. Being the largest venue serving Sussex all and sundry played there, Queen, Wings, The Who, Bob Marley & The Wailers, The Clash etc etc... The Jam practically moved in in 1982!
Nevertheless in my view it is best left for Party Conferences... although they did put on a great record fair back in the '80s!
Looking back on this gig now, I really regret that I did not pay enough attention to Xmal Deutschland. I saw them briefly and then went to the bar. These days they are on heavy rotation on my PC and turntable.
Somewhere during the gig if I remember correctly, Burnel makes reference to shoes, a comment remembering that someone's shoe was thrown onto the stage the last time they played Brighton in March 1985.
In the download please ignore the track numbering, it is an artifact of editing done many years ago... the gig is indeed complete.
Here is a contemporary review from the Evening Argus (Brighton's evening newspaper) as it appeared in the 'Top Secret' fanzine. It's funny to think that the writer, Mike Ward, states that the band were getting old... what would he say now! That said, music paper hacks were declaring the band to be old back in '77 so nothing new there really.
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-x8keiYg5m1jh7M0n
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