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Eddie and the Hot Rods
Live at the Top Rank, Brighton, February 15th 1978

Including full art work.

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These three torrents make up the whole bill for the first night of the “Life On The Line” tour; Eddie and the Hot Rods, Radio Stars and Squeeze. This show was at the Top Rank Suite, Brighton, UK, on Wednesday, February 15th 1978. I think the tickets were £1.25.
We recorded the shows on a nameless, generic stereo cassette recorder with two of the cheapest microphones known to man, from the centre of the balcony, directly facing the stage.
The sound is good, all things considered. There is a full, room sound and a strong mix throughout. There was always good sound at the Top Rank.
The headliners had just released their second album and were at the height of their powers. In truth, their time at the top was beginning to run out.
Second on the bill was Radio Stars, a band who’d had a couple of minor underground hits that grazed the charts with their novelty value. Nonetheless, they were great musicians and, with Andy Ellison on vocals, had someone with a real pedigree; he was in John’s Children with Marc Bolan in the sixties. Things were expected to get better for this band, but they too stalled after another couple of albums.
Bottom of the bill was a band that very few of the night’s punters had heard much about. It was pretty obvious from the start that they could play; this lot were serious musicians. Jools Holland was still in the band. As it turned out, Squeeze outlasted the two bands above them on the bill.
This tour was very much of its time really. Every band that was new back then, was deemed to be a New Wave, or even a Punk, band. Spitting was rife and, by 1978, the bands were getting very pissed off with it, as you’ll hear. 


Eddie & the Hot Roads
1. Intro - Pomp and Circumstance
2. Money
3. Telephone Girl
4. 96 Tears
5. What’s Really Going On
6. Quit This Town
7. I Might Be Lying
8. Schoolgirl Love
9. Life On The Line
10. Why Can’t It Be?
11. The Kids Are Alright
12. Do Anything You Wanna Do
13. Ignore Them
14. Beginning Of The End
15. Get Out Of Denver

Total playing time: 58.12

Barrie Masters, vocals, Dave Higgs, guitar, Graeme Douglas, guitar, Paul Gray, bass, Steve Nicol, drums.