Sunday 20 September 2009

Operation Solstice (Battle of the beanfield) 1985

now for a change, heres a video i upped for another site so thought id stick it on here too

a brief history of the events
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Beanfield

now watch 10 minutes here, most of it is unbroadcast news footage, even the newsmen couldnt believe what they were seeing, men, women and children being beaten and their homes smashed to bits and burnt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIgFBV-iY8E

warning this footage brings me to tears EVERYTIME i see it, and fills me with rage, you have been warned, its shocking.

and heres the classic levellers (folk punk) song of the events
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKrmo9H8XY
which also makes the hairs on my body stand on end and tears to my eyes with sadness

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its about 250mb altogether, about an hour long

Subhumans - Live Sheffield Leadmill 17.2.85 (tape)


I've posted this on a torrent site, may as well post it here aswell, heres what i said............

Heres a rarity, i've been told even the guy who taped it, and released it, and Dick from the band dont even have a copy of this...yet
I've left it as is, i dont go in for altering the audio, i'd just fuck it up, there is a clicky noise near the beginning but i think it disappears about 1 minute in or so, its not bad played on the puter but on my hifi it was loud as fuck.
I've ripped it to flac as the original sound qualitys ok but not amazing so wanted to preserve as much of the sound as i could.

This isnt actually a bluurg release either, it was released on a small Sheffield distro called "epileptic chainsaw tapes" and this was the 2nd release (epic 2), the guy who taped / released it was in a band called protest too.

The set is 43minutes and 43 seconds long, this includes some interviewing and crowd noise due to a fight that occurred that night...i left the whole tape as is.



setlist
All gone dead
Apathy
rats
From the cradle to the grave
No
Powergames
Not me
Evolution
Joe Public
Human error
Subvert city

enjoy

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