The Mare's Nest

1979
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In the beginning, 'twas just Tim Smith, his brother Jim,
close friends Colvin Mayers, Mark Cawthra and Michael Pugh.

13 November at Eric's in Liverpool

  1. Pip As Uncle Dick But Peter Spoilt It'
  2. A Bus For A Bus On The Bus'
  3. A Cake For Bertie's Party'
  4. Food On The Wall'
  5. Bite 3/a'
  6. Cameras'
  7. I Haven't Done Anything Yet*'
  8. Scratching Crawling Scrawling'
  9. Rock Around The Clock'
  10. Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me A Wheelchair*'
  11. The Lemming Is Dead*'
  12. Aukamacic'
  13. Dead Mouse (Keep Your Dead Mice With You)'
  14. A Balloon For Bertie's Party'

Clean recording, all instruments can be heard fair,
though somewhat boomy from venue. Some tape flutter. VG

Someday in December at the Queen Elizabeth College, London

  1. Leaf Scrapings'
  2. The Obvious Identity'
  3. Pip As Uncle Dick But Peter Spoilt It
  4. A Bus For A Bus On The Bus
  5. A Cake For Bertie's Party
  6. Food On The Wall
  7. Bite 3/a
  8. Cameras
  9. I Haven't Done Anything Yet*
  10. A Little Rubbish*'
  11. A Balloon For Bertie's Party

Not too clean recording, muddy and echoey from venue,
but most instruments are clear or audible. G

* denotes these are tracks that haven't been officially released yet

' denotes that this is the (as of yet) recorded live premiere of this track