Friday, 10 November 2006

Astoria

London, UK
AudioVideo notedPoster22 songs

Memories and notes

The surviving recording is incomplete and heavily distorted, but documents the only known performance of Fairy Mary Mag. I Hold My Love in My Arms is repeated three times; the audience takes over the third version before the recording cuts.

Roughly three and a half songs are absent. Gina Lollabrigida is the only missing title named in the source notes and would have marked its first documented appearance at a regular concert since 1989.

Setlist.fm reports that Big Ship and Nurses Whispering Verses followed Gina Lollabrigida in the encore. Neither title survives in the local recording or is named by its accompanying notes, and no independent confirmation has been found, so they are documented separately as setlist.fm-only information.

Concert details

Venue
Astoria
City
London
Country
UK
Date
Friday, 10 November 2006
Status
Played

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Duration
76:44
⚠️ Partial
Quality
C+
Source
audience
Lineage
??? > MP3 > MP3Tag

Setlist

  1. The Breakfast Line
  2. Tarred and Feathered
  3. Dog-Like Sparky
  4. Fiery Gun Hand
  5. Everything Is Easy
  6. All His Geese Are Swans
  7. Plane Plane Against the Grain
  8. Burn Your House Brown
  9. Day Is Gone
  10. I Hold My Love in My Arms
  11. I Hold My Love in My Arms [second performance]
  12. I Hold My Love in My Arms [audience-led third performance; cuts in the middle]
  13. Arnald
  14. The Duck and Roger the Horse
  15. Ideal
  16. Fairy Mary Mag
  17. To Go Off and Things
  18. Anything I Can't Eat
  19. Dirty Boy [cuts out]
  1. Gina Lollabrigida
  1. Big Ship
  2. Nurses Whispering Verses

Concert location

AstoriaLondon, UK

Credits & acknowledgements

Sources, preservation and archive provenance.

Concert details, setlist and recording history compiled from the original notes preserved with the audio. Original files downloaded from the Unofficial Cardiacs Drive.

Special thanks to Kevin Shepherd of the Cardiacs Facebook group for sharing the concert poster in this group post.

The taper and original sharer are not identified.