Description

Double album on white vinyls with gatefold cover and OBI-strip

Motorhead continued to be massively popular with rock fans throughout the early 80s, selling out multiple nights at concert halls up and down the country. The band were beloved of the North East biker and rock fraternity, Motorhead – with a variety of line-ups – were regular visitors to Newcastle City Hall and the Mayfair over the decades. This album was recorded at the City Hall in Newcastle on the 22nd of March 1982, just before the release of the Iron Fist album, seven of whose tracks are played, to evident relative bemusement (which Eddie, soon to leave the band, gives a bit of a nod to before “(We are the) Road Crew”) – the band frequently bemoans the lack of crowd noise, and asks Wayne the Engineer to turn the volume up several times (no one never seems to get that loud nowadays). Their shows continued to be a feast of heavy, loud, fast, high energy rock’n’roll, with front man Lemmy always on good form. But things were soon to fall apart. Fast Eddie left the band in 1983, followed shortly by Phil Taylor. That meant that the band were passing the pinnacle of their popularity around this time. This is still a very good performance, although the new tracks plod a bit.

Track list:
1. Iron Fist
2. Heart Of Stone
3. Shoot You In The Back
4. The Hammer
5. Loser
6. Jailbait
7. White Line Fever
8. America
9. (Don’t Need) Religion
10. Go To Hell
11. Capricorn
12. (Don’t Let ‘Em) Grind You Down
13. (We Are) The Road Crew
14. Ace Of Spades
15. Bite The Bullet
16. The Chase Is Better Than The Catch
17. Overkill
18. Bomber
19. Motörhead