Natalie Merchant (w Erik Della Penna)
Hebden Bridge Trades Club, Yorkshire , UK
18th July 2018

SP-CMC-8 (ON SPECS) >SP-SPSB-11 Battery box> Sony PCM10.
This was one gig of a short tour by Natalie playing small venues. I would say that this was probably the smallest venue on the tour. I went to another at Ilkley which while still small, was at least 3-4 times the capacity of this show. The scene for this is Hebden Bridge Trades Club. A legendary venue for many artists attracting artists seemingly way above its punching weight. A casual look and you might think it is a fairly run down, dingy venue with worn out most things . Lighting is truly mediocre and sound is very hit and miss. To the right of the stage is a door (hidden from public by curtain). This door was opened by a fairly well known media personality who shall not be named at some point and the person then used it to go outside and smoke, much to Natalie's disgust. This show sounds better than the actual show did and was. Natalie Merchant was not in the best of moods .The story goes that she had been out for a meal just before the show with said personality and he might have had a drink or 2 or 3 . The person did seem to act like a plonker throughout the show as can be heard. Sound recording suffered due to wind blowing across the stage and I could not use wind shields as I was almost directly in front of Natalie. In all honesty I thought I was going to be very publicly humiliated for recording but I got away with it. You can hear her confiscating phones and a very pricey camera from the official pro (who had been given permission etc to photograph by just about everyone other than Natalie!). On Tell Yourself (probably about �8-10k+ of camera/lens she held between her fingers as though it was a bag of dog poo - he was not amused). There were many people asking for the personality to be banned from the Trades as many HBTC rules were broken (and Hebden Bridge is very PC) that night and offended a lot of people.The personality can be heard commenting that Natalie is more Hebden Bridge than Hebden Bridge.! After track 18/19 there is a fan turned on quite near to me which is audible throughout from that point. BigDee got rid of most of the wind noise in right channel by deleting bass below 100Hz and other bits of audio trickery. There is one strange bit which might have missed editing in River.

This show may have been shared very selectively in the past but this is first time of wider sharing.

Many thanks go to BigDee for mastering this show.



[137.17]
1. Intro (1.54)
2. Motherland (5.09)
3. Owensboro (4.02)
4. Chat about Grandmother & Song Intro (0.56)
5. Nursery Rhyme of Innocence & Experience (Charles Causley) (4.51)
6. Chat and OCD audience management (1.43))
7. Sally Ann (4.09)
8. Build A Levee (4.44)
9. Chat (1.28)
10. Break Your Heart (4.21)
11. Chat (0.40)
12. Life Is Sweet (4.19)
13. Frank Mills -impromptu & acapela (2.19)
14. Chat about Hair (2.18)
15. Golden Boy (3.49)
16. Request For Requests & Women Backing Vocalists & Yes/Styx Snippets (4.00)
17. Tell Yourself/The World Turned Upside Down interrupted by Phone/Camera Confiscation & Rambling Chat (10.35)
18. Chat (4.15)
19. Cowboy Romance (AK starts really acting like the prat he is!) (5.41)
20. Chat and Mood Change (3.11)
21. Beloved Wife-aborted (1.40)
22. Chat (1.30)
23. Matty Groves (5.16)
24. Weeping Pilgrim (3.35)
25. Saint Judas (4.47)
26. Texas (5.24)
27. From The Time You Say Goodbye & Chat (Vera Lynn) (1.29)
28. River (5.19)
29. ENCORE APPLAUSE (1.29)
30. Chat (0.39)
31. Wonder (5.19)
32. Don't You Want Me (Human League) (1.08)
33. Verdi Cries (6.08)
34. Carnival (5.24)
35. Hey Jack Kerouac (3.50)
36. Kind and Generous (8.40)
37. All Right Now (1.14)

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