As I mentioned back on this similarly inclined post, if the pandemic has had any benefits, it’s that its mandatory sentence of unwieldy downtime has inspired lots of folks to finally digitize and upload stuff to YouTube that they may have otherwise been sitting on for many years. This is a prime example of that, as just yesterday, a YouTuber named Uncouth Youth uploaded this lovingly restored and mastered recording of my beloved Cop Shoot Cop kicking up an unholy ruckus at the Camden Falcon in northwest London back in December of 1990.
Capturing the band right before their “major label sellout” to Interscope Records, here we hear Tod & the boys stumbling recklessly through clangy tracks off White Noise, Consumer Revolt, Headkick Facsimile and the “Piece, Man” single. We even get an early, noisy preview of “Suck City,” which wouldn’t be released for another two years.
I would be remiss not to thank the Instagram page of Record Gonk, who posted the original gig flyer above.
The Camden Falcon was something of a storied live-music venue that played host to a wide array of local indie bands like Lush, Suede and Blur. Sadly, the venture closed in 2002, and the space that had been the pub is now someone’s residence.
Here it was in noisier days….
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