Buzzcocks Apollo Theatre Manchester England Friday 25th May 2012 Set 1 Pete Shelley - guitar / vocals Steve Diggle - guitar / vocals Chris Remmington - bass guitar Danny Farrant - drums 1.Intro (Marc Riley) 2.What Am I Supposed To Do? 3.Totally From The Heart 4.When Love Turns Around 5.Friends 6.Unthinkable 7.Lester Sands 8.Sell You Everything 9.Wish I Never Loved You 10.People Are Strange Machines 11.The Way 12.Sound Of A Gun 13.Reconcilliation 14.Big Brother Wheels 15.Choices 16.Isolation 17.Crystal Night 18.Alive Tonight 19.Innocent 20.Sick City Sometimes Set 2 Pete Shelley - guitar / vocals Steve Diggle - guitar / vocals Steve Garvey - bass guitar John Maher - drums 1.Intro (Marc Riley) 2.Fast Cars 3.I Don't Mind 4.Autonomy 5.Get On Our Own 6.Fiction Romance 7.You Say You Don't Love Me 8.Sixteen Again 9.Why She's A Girl From The Chainstore 10.Moving Away From The Pulsebeat 11.Why Can't I Touch It 12.Mad Mad Judy 13.Everybody's Happy Nowadays 14.Promises 15.Love You More 16.What Do I Get? 17.encore break 18.Harmony In My Head 19.Ever Fallen In Love With 20.Orgasm Addict Set 3 Howard Devoto - vocals Pete Shelley - broken starway guitar Steve Diggle - bass guitar John Maher - drums 1.Intro (Marc Riley) 2.Breakdown 3.Times up 4.Boredom 5.Friends Of Mine / Can't Control Myself mixup 6.Friends Of Mine 7.encore break 8.I Can't Control Myself Lineage: Church Audio CA-11 cardoid mics>Microphone Madness MM-CBM-MINI Battery Box>iRiver iHP-120 Transfer: iRiver iHP-120> usb > wav > Audacity (fades and levels) > CD Wave (Track splits) > FLAC Taping Location: right hand side, 20ft back, below ceiling mounted stack Notes: Recorded, split and upped by vault63 Equipment borrowed from PontiacB Totally epic Buzzcocks gig! Totalling 42 songs. Three line ups, billed as the current (set 1), the classic (set 2) and original (set 3) with Pete Shelley and Steve Diggle performing in all three. Good going considering! Set 1 is full of songs from the albums since their reformation (and a few new ones). Set 2 is full of songs from the first three albums prior to the split, with the appropriate line up. Set 3 is Spiral Scratch EP + an encore of I Can't Control Myself with the line up that recorded those songs. Need I say more. If you're a Buzzcocks fan you'll know what this means. If you don't know much about them, this is a great document of their history. The mix up at the end was unusually down to Pete Shelley, who seemed intent on playing I Can't Control Myself instead of Friends Of Mine. At first I thought it was some fancy hybrid but when John Maher left his drums to settle the matter it became clear it was a mix up. The recording sounds great I think, great bass to it. I did my best considering the austerity of the occasion. And again thanks go to PontiacB for the loan of his rig. The Apollo is a big old theatre just outside Manchester city centre. Standing capacity of 3000, and although it wasn't sold out, it was close I'd say. Nice venue, ceiling mounted stacks, high stage, sloped floor. But poor bar as expected in this type of place, and I got patted down on the way in, probably my own fault as I was one of the few wearing a jacket on a hot Manc night. Share freely and do not sell! mp3 sample attached to comments.