Motorhead July 26, 1985 Ishallen Angelholm, Sweden It Never Gets Dark Tour
01 - Iron Fist 02 - Stay Clean 03 - Heart Of Stone 04 - The Hammer 05 - Metropolis 06 - Mean Machine 07 - Banter 08 - On The Road 09 - Banter 10 - Jailbait 11 - Banter 12 - Killed By Death 13 - Ace Of Spades 14 - Steal Your Face 15 - Iron Horse (Born To Lose) 16 - Banter 17 - Nothing Up My Sleeve 18 - (We Are) The Road Crew 19 - Banter 20 - Bite The Bullet > The Chase Is Better Than The Catch 21 - Band Intro's 22 - No Class 23 - Motorhead 24 - Bomber 25 - Banter 26 - Overkill
These files came to me via a Jansson trade (& Much Appreciated for that), & did require extensive rework - to begin with, they came as 2 volumes (CD 1 & 2) containing around 110 files, some only a few seconds long, so it required retracking. I also edited out 6 minutes of encore breaks (all you could hear was a distant audience that sounded like murmuring), some duplicated tracks, & removed a chunk of extraneous noise from the end of Track 26. Finally, the tracks were normalized to correct a channel imbalance & to level out some minor volume fluctuations. As to the source, I'm fairly certain this is a board tape (fairly well mixed & balanced, & with a distant audience) as it's very clear indeed...
The show is a very good one indeed, taped on the 'It Never Gets Dark' Tour of Scandinavia. The Four Musketeers Of The Apocalypse can all be distinguished clearly, with no audience intrusions at all, & all four are eager to play to an appreciative audience with a setlist that still manages to sound fresh - in fact, this particular tour produced some sparkling performances, Angelholm being just one of them. Lem's in a playful frame of mind, & overall this is definitely a worthwhile addition to the canon...& Remember - They were Motorhead, & They played Rock & fucking Roll - Don't forget 'em...
