Lindisfarne
2003-10-25
At The Robin
Mount Pleasant
Bilston
Wolverhampton UK
Audience Recording
Artwork Enclosed
Quality A
Time:97 Minutes


Lineage TradeCDR>Audacity>Dime


Checked SBE's with Trader's Little Helper



Rod Clements-Guitars,Mandolin,Vocals
Ray Laidlaw-Drums
Billy Mitchell-Guitars,Mandolin,Harmonica,Vocals
Dave Hull-Denholm-Guitars,Vocals
Ian Thomson-Bass Guitar


Lindisfarne recordings,and i thought i had them all. Checking a huge list
i got way back in 2014 from the late Charles Orr. I noticed one or two
that didn't sound familiar.Checking them out,i found no record of them being
posted online,so here's the second one. A nice sounding show from the end of
the 2003 final tour (or so we thought) at a small club gig in the Midlands,the band in good form.
Raised the volume,fixed a five second gap in Fog,and cut out some dead air.


Disc One

1.Fog On The Tyne
2.No Time To Lose
3.Rockin' Chair
4.This Guitar Never Lies
5.Remember Tomorrow
6.This Too Will Pass
7.Freedom Square
8.Ghost In Blue Suede Shoes
9.Lady Eleanor
10.Under The Promenade
11.Rock 'N' Roll Phone
12.Statues And Liberties


Disc Two

1.Meet Me On The Corner
2.Born At The Right Time
3.Winter Song
4.Can't Do Right For Doing Wrong
5.One Day
6.Road To Kingdom Come
7.Unmarked Car
8.Jubilee Corner
9.Unfinished Business


Last song fades out
On setlist but not recorded....
Whisky Highway
Run For Home
One More Bottle Of Wine (Not Played)
Clear White Light
Devil Of The North.




Reinhard Groll ran the Lindisfarne de website in the 90's
Steve23yh mentions some of his live recordings were bought from his website.



Lindisfarne Concert Review
The Robin, Wolverhampton - Saturday, 25th October 2003
by Reinhard Groll

Let me start with a big thanks to my wife Brigitte who had forced me to do the 1000-mile weekend trip from Duesseldorf to Wolverhampton.
Since there was no chance of getting a flight to either Birmingham or Manchester,
the only other option was to go by car and take the ferry. Yes, Brigitte was right, if I hadn't done it, it would have always been "Unfinished Business" for me.
But before I start with a brief review, I know that most of you are interested in any "Inside Lindisfarne" news especially when it comes down to the questions "why did they split"? and "what will happen next"?
Of course I have asked both questions to all members of the band, got my answers, but perhaps it's not what you really want to hear. Here we go anyway.
Why did they split? There is no sufficient single answer which would explain it in one or two words. Rod's name came up in the press but in fact it would be unfair to him because it simply isn't rue.
All I can say is that it simply has happened like in the non music business world where someone wants to leave the company simply for a change. It is a fact that the split decision was not carried by all members of Lindisfarne.
But it was democratric decision when it came to the question if it would make sense to carry on with a new member or two. This particular question was already discussed and answered a long time ago.
Anway, Rod has promised to publish an official statement from his side at some time after the tour on his website. So watch out what will come on www.rodclements.com
and Ray Laidlaw might do the same here at www.lindisfarne.co.uk
It is the undoubtedly the definitive end of the 5-piece electric line-up. Lindisfarne Acoustic will tour in Spring 2004. Billy Mitchell will do a couple of solo concerts,
play in the Pantomine and is still thinking about recording his second solo album. Ray Laidlaw will be working hard on the live CD and DVD of the band's very last gig at the Newcastle Opera House on November 1st.
There will be no additional DVD as originally planned for December 2003, containing material from the 2002 Opera House gig. Instead material form that show and other footage will be used for the 2003 DVD.
Dave Hull-Denholm will take the opportunity to write more songs and to spend even more time for his other passion, "painting". Rod Clements is waiting for Nigel Stonier who is currently on tour with Thea Gilmore.
There is a lot of song material yet to finish and who knows what will come out of this collaboration. And finally Ian Thomson is a member of the 3-piece "Ghosts of Electricity" project which will start off in Spring 2003
together with Rod and Dave which -in spite of the name- will be an all acoustic project.
Did I miss anything? I don't think so, except that there was also a gig on Saturday at The Robin in Wolverhampton.
A very strong gig!! The setlist was basically the same as before but in addition we found the return of "No Time To Lose" and "Can't Do Right" [btw: Can't Do Right is to be covered by a young musician;
please ask Rod further details which I have forgotten] both of which will become part of the setlist for the Opera House. Sadly there was no "One More Bottle of Wine".
It had been on the setlist but Billy had some sound problems with Rod's mandolin which he had used during "Road to Kingdome Come" so it had to be dropped.
Highlights to me were "Unmarked Car" and "Whiskey Highway". "Lady Eleanor" was played correctly from the beginning with the capo on the 7th fret, the harmonica used for MMOTC was the right one,
but a big laugh came from the audience when Billy announced "This Guitar Never Lies" - Dave, who was going to use the wrong guitar, had to swap it for the correct one.
For all the equipment freaks amongst you; Dave didn't use his WEM Copycat, something inside had broken. Rod was using a new Fender Vintage Style amp (1 x 12" speaker) because his old Fender Vibrolux (2 x 10" speaker) is in need of some repair.
The big advantage of the new amp is that he no longer needs an extra foot pedal for distortion which now come from the amp itself. The only foot pedal still in use is an Equalizer which acts as a volume booster during solos.
Ok then, I think everything was said about my personal final Lindisfarne concert.

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