Lindisfarne
Septem Mirabilia Vol XIII
2002-07-06
Live At The Magnesia Bank North Shields
Tyneside UK
Artwork Included
Soundboard Recording
33 Minutes
Quality A
Time:33 Mins.

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1 Old Peculiar Feeling
2 When Jones Gets Back To Town
3 Refugees
4 Freedom Square
5 One World
6 This Too Will Pass
7 Sundown Station

Bonus Track
Ghost In Blue Suede Shoes

Rod Clements – dobro,mandolin,vocal
Dave Hull-Denholm – six & twelve string guitars,harp,vocal
Billy Mitchell – six & twelve string guitars,mandolin,harp,vocal

Review by Derek Walmsley

The first weekend in July ushered in a unique chance to experience two varieties of Lindisfarne on home ground both north and south of the Tyne. At North Shields, home of good beers, a crowded pub gig by the Acoustic trio ready for their American tour in August. At South Shields, home of good curry houses, an open-air full band set in the park was enjoyed from the comfort of deck chairs.

Upstairs in the Magnesia Bank, the room normally used for the band’s rehearsals was now the venue for a sitting-down live recording of 20 songs by Billy, Rod and Dave. A nervous Billy asked the fans for their help as this was “the last chance to record without Laidlaw’s knocking and banging!” Ian Thomson’s new baby daughter Eliza had finally arrived and the Acoustic era was drawing to a close. However, a blues band downstairs was providing sonic competition. Careful scheduling was required to ensure there wasn’t still more knocking and banging to remove at the mixing stage.

A late start for the blues band and a lengthy Lindisfarne interval sorted most of those technical problems. Even so, Billy said there was a danger the second set would have to be recorded at 78 r.p.m!

A similar set list to Worthen saw the band gradually relax as the opening numbers “Working My Way Back Home”, “When Jones Gets Back To Town” and “Refugees” led to Dave’s spine-tingling rendition of “This Too Will Pass”. Billy said the technically difficult “Freedom Square” not only required two capos on Dave’s guitar but also badly needed a drummer “to hold the second harmonica.” The tuneful “Neighbourhood” ballad “Can’t Do Right For Doing Wrong” was added to the Worthen first half set. This welcome return of Billy’s G.P.’s favourite track was dedicated to her in the hope of an examination! After Rod and Billy’s “Sundown Station”, the impact of time on our lives was examined by the last three numbers of the half- “Remember Tomorrow”, “Happy Birthday Dad” and “Born At The Right Time”.

Rod and Billy set off the second half nicely with the intricate and contrasting “Walking Back to Blueberry Hill” and “Roll On That Day”. The rapturous applause that followed Dave’s version of “One World” acknowledged the band’s debt to James Alan Hull. Rod’s “Significant Other” was followed by a tale about the ex-landlord of the White Bear, Masham and the tribute to his beer, “Old Peculier Feeling”. Billy then continued the rural theme from Worthen, introducing the “Goat in Blue Suede Shoes”. The Jack The Lad song Lindisfarne “could and should have recorded” in the early days “Why Can’t I Be Satisfied” seemed improved from Worthen as the three worked to a climax worthy of the bass’n’drums version.

After “Meet Me On The Corner”, we had to pretend the lads had left the stage for an encore which this time consisted of “January Song” and “Road To Kingdom Come”. “No Time To Lose” and the other hits would have to wait until the following day. With the pub gig over it was time to catch the last Metro to Newcastle.































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