Description
Lindisfarne – Caught In The Act / The Collection Series / Castle Communications Audio CD 1992 / CCSCD346
UPC 5017615934625
Product Details:
Label: Castle Communications – CCSCD 346
Format: CD, Album
Country: Europe
Released: 1992
Genre: Rock, Pop, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Pop Rock, Folk Rock
Editorial Review:
Recorded (and videotaped) at Newcastle City Hall (where the group have played over 125 shows) in December of 1982, this somewhat uneven concert album caught Lindisfarne in pretty fair form at the tail end of a U.K. tour. Among the newer songs, "Ode To a Taxman" is a decent rocker, with crunchy guitars and a pretty catchy chorus. "Lady Eleanor" fares well, as does "Meet Me On The Corner," but nothing beats the explosive power of "Fog On The Tyne" as performed here, which has become to Lindisfarne (especially when playing to Newcastle fans) what "Bo Diddley" is to Bo Diddley. Hull's "Nights" has a pleasing classic rock sound, although most of the newer material (the exception is the Jackson/Harcourt "Warm Feeling" and Hull's Springsteen-like "Run For Home") pales next to the older stuff here. The audio is crisp and clean, capturing the harmonies and the different guitar (and mandolin) voices very well, and the mix puts the band very close. Until the live albums from Charisma and Mercury show up, this will have to do, and it makes a decent career best-of substitute.
Tracklist:
| 1 | Moving House | |
| 2 | Taxman | |
| 3 | Lady Eleanor | |
| 4 | Nights | |
| 5 | Mister Inbetween | |
| 6 | Brand New Day | |
| 7 | Mystery Play | |
| 8 | Lover Not A Fighter | |
| 9 | Day Of The Jackal | |
| 10 | Stormy Weather | |
| 11 | I Must Stop Going To Parties | |
| 12 | Marshall Riley's Army | |
| 13 | Warm Feeling | |
| 14 |
Fog On The Tyne | |
| 15 | Run For Home | |
| 16 | Meet Me On The Corner | |
| 17 | Clear White Light |
More Details:
- Management – Ray Laidlaw, Steve Weltman
- Photography – Doug Hall, Michael Scott
- Producer – David Batchelor
- Remix – Steve Cunningham (4)
- Written By – Alan Hull (tracks: Track 1-7,9-12,14,15,17), Charlie Harcourt (tracks: Track 13), J.D. Miller (tracks: Track 8), Ray Jackson (tracks: Track 13), Rod Clements (tracks: Track 16)
About the Band:
Lindisfarne are an English folk rock band from Newcastle upon Tyne established in 1968 (originally called Brethren). The original line-up comprised Alan Hull (vocals, guitar, piano), Ray Jackson (vocals, mandolin, harmonica), Simon Cowe (guitar, mandolin, banjo, keyboards), Rod Clements (bass guitar, violin) and Ray Laidlaw (drums).
They are best known for the albums Nicely Out of Tune (1970), Fog on the Tyne (1971) which became the biggest selling UK album in 1972, Dingly Dell (1972) and Back and Fourth (1978), and for the success of songs such as "Meet Me on the Corner", "Lady Eleanor", "Run For Home", "Fog On The Tyne" and "We Can Swing Together".
