Home Service - The Treetops, Epping, England 1984-06-29 brand new transfer from master cassette FLAC


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Time for a brand new transfer of this gig of the John Tams/Bill Caddick line up.

This is Home Service showcasing their long awaited eponymously titled album in an upstairs room of what is now, as far as I can tell, a Residential Care Home for the elderly! It was not a big room either. We have some fine songs from Bill Caddick as well as from John Tams who seems to make references to famous cricketers of the time, so I guess that a test match was in progress. This was only a short time before the band took up residency at the Cottesloe Theatre and in 1985 at the Lyceum for the Mysteries - more on that anon! This gig was noteable for Howard Evans' trumpet falling apart during the tune played into One More Day, which he managed to fix before the end of the song.

The first track fades in, quite what happened to the first few seconds I don't remember. Possibly the mic was plugged into the headphone socket or similar and it never recorded!



Set list

01 Walk My Way
02 The Barmaid Song, or She Moves Among Men
03 Don't Let 'm Grind you Down
04 Battle Pavanne/Peat Bog Soldiers
05 Never be a Cowboy Now
06 The Old Man's Song
07 What's name/Dunno/Thatcher
08 Tune?/One More Day - Trumpet fails!
09 Rainbow Waistcoat
10 Gresford Disaster/Babylon is Fallen
11 Doin the Best I can