[Try To Enjoy Yourself, Life Is Very Long!]

Source Audience

Track List:

01 Shakespeare’s Sister
02 I Want The One I Can’t Have
03 Vicar In A Tutu
04 Frankly, Mr. Shankly
05 Rusholme Ruffians / (Marie’s The Name) His Latest Flame
06 The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
07 Cemetery Gates
08 Nowhere Fast
09 What She Said
10 There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
11 Bigmouth Strikes Again
12 William, It Was Really Nothing [tape flip]
13 Meat Is Murder
14 Stretch Out And Wait
15 The Unknown Act - Maggie’s Farm

Lineage:-
Master Tape [TDK SA-90] > Yamaha KX-580 Special Edition Cassette Deck >
QED Profile J2P Cable > Realtek ALC269 > Sound Forge Pro 11.0 > WAV >
Restoration & Remastering > FLAC [Level 8] [16 Bit 44.1khz]
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Dr. Notes:
They’re all my own masters from the same WMD6C set up.

The bands played in following order:
The Fall
New Order
Smiths

Because it was a sort of festival set, probably limited soundchecks,
so the sound at the start of each set is a bit all over the place, but tends to settle down, as the sound engineers figured it out.
Also more recollections have wormed their way out of the deepest recesses of my brain regarding the bottling off of the unknown final act (who were trying to perform Maggie’s Farm).
People were throwing stuff at the stage,
and after a while one of the performers on stage made the mistake of starting to throw stuff back at the audience.. big mistake!!
This prompted an even greater barrage of glasses / bottles etc to be launched from audience which did indeed see them off!!
Hence the several f’ offs audible at the end of the recording!!
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Remaster Notes:
Massive thanks to Dave for sending/sharing his tapes with us.
He also came up with the title for this offering.
Needed only minimal restoration & then some remastering.
This suffers at times from whooshing effects.
Not that bad over all, shouldn't distract to much from your listening.
The last track "The Unknown Act" I have left on the end,
you can decide if you want it or not.
My basic artwork effort included.
Enjoy...

"Try To Enjoy Yourself, Life Is Very Long!", was Dream Remastered January 2022.

Do NOT sell this recording.
Freely given to you, so don't charge others.
Support the artist anyway you can.
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Notes from:
https://blackcountryrock.co/2015/05/22/with-love-from-manchester-new-order-the-fall-the-smiths-liverpool-royal-court-8-february-1986

Produced for a NEW ORDER benefit gig (with THE SMITHS, THE FALL & JOHN COOPER CLARKE) at the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool, February 8, 1986, in aid of the Militant Tendency.

An NME article in January 1986 gives more detail on the background:

"The Smiths, The Fall, and New Order have been lined up on a one-off fund-raising bill at Liverpool's Royal Court Theatre, on Saturday February 8, in aid of the City Council's 48 Labour councillors and their families.

"The concert, which is billed 'With Love From Manchester', represents a major coup for the Labour leadership in Liverpool - and for Derek Hatton in particular, who spoke to Morrissey before The Smiths agreed to play.

"All three bands are playing for their expenses only. Tickets are £6, and will probably have sold out by the time you read this. Any profits from the evening will go into the Legal Fund Of The Family Support Group, designed to pay the legal costs (£100,000) being incurred by the councillors in their fight against the District Auditor's decision to surcharge them for their delay in setting a rate last year. Another £100,000 is needed to pay for an action taken by Derek Hatton against a World In Action programme. Each councillor faces heavy fines and faces being disqualified from holding public office.

"The case comes to the High Court, in London, next Monday (January 13). A demonstration is planned, and local Liverpool band The Lloyd Collection are expected to lead a singalong of 'Maggie's Farm' on the High Court steps."

After The Smiths members of the bands joined John Cooper Clarke,
The Farm and The Redskins on stage for a ramshackle version of “Maggie’s Farm”.
I seem to remember a few Newcastle Brown bottles being chucked but can’t recall what prompted it.
The evening ended and I headed back to Garston reflecting on seeing these three bands at pivotal stages in their careers.
The councillors lost their court battle and the Militant Tendency contingent were expelled from the Labour Party.
Derek Hatton enjoyed a chequered career in media before heading to Cyprus as a property developer at the start of the century.
I doubt any of those council workers who received their redundancy notices enjoyed such a fortunate conclusion to their careers.