Memories and notes
This is the earliest surviving recorded Cardiac Arrest concert currently known to circulate.
The recording is especially notable for preserving the only known pre-2003 performance of Dead Mouse, documenting the song in an early form. It also contains a particularly strong early performance of A Balloon for Bertie's Party.
According to the original information file, the concert was recorded by "Colvin", probably referring to the band's keyboard player at the time, Colvin Mayers.
The sound is raw but generally clear, with tape-related issues during Pip as Uncle Dick but Peter Spoilt It and Cameras. The opening song begins part-way through.
Concert details
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- Quality
- B+
- Source
- audience
- Lineage
- Cassette Trade > CD Wave > FLAC > MP3Tag > FLAC
Setlist
Recorded songs
- Pip as Uncle Dick but Peter Spoilt It
- A Bus for a Bus on the Bus
- A Cake for Bertie's Party
- Food on the Wall
- Bite 3/a
- Cameras
- I Haven't Done Anything Yet
- Scratching Crawling Scrawling
- Rock Around the Clock
- Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Wheelchair
- Lemmings
- Aukamacic
- Dead Mouse
- A Balloon for Bertie's Party
Concert location
Credits & acknowledgements
Sources, preservation and archive provenance.
Concert details and recording information taken from the original information file supplied with the circulating audio. Original audio files downloaded from the Unofficial Cardiacs Drive.
— Special thanks to pjpeanutz, the original DimeADozen uploader, for sharing the recording. The original information file credits "Colvin" with recording the concert, probably referring to Colvin Mayers.
Please do not sell this recording. Share it freely and retain the original information file wherever possible.