Last Few Days – Pure Spirit And Saliva Live [LP] (1986, Dead Man's Curve)

To many the band Last Few Days is just a complete mystery or simply some group who toured with Laibach and then promptly disappeared soon afterwards. This is not particularly surprising for a band that consciously left little mark during their existence. They were a band that deliberately avoided releasing their material and kept a limit on their live performances, they also had a very low profile though it was increased briefly after the Laibach collaborations. Most people attending their concerts had little very idea who they were, simply enticed along by the ambiguous posters or simply a night out. The concerts themselves bizarrely lasting all through the night (with a mixture of music and movies), still going at 7AM and not quite easiest sort music to be listening too either. They made heavy use of megaphones, guitars often played with broken bottles, drum unrelenting and brutal, delivering rather harsh and bewildering but occasionally rhythmic apocalyptic music. The three main members of Last Few Days were Daniel Landin (aka D. Styme), Si Joyce (aka Si Gross) and Keir Wahid (aka K. Warhead and K. Fraser). They were regularly helped out by Fritz Haaman (aka Fritz Catlin) who also performed with Laibach during the joint tour, and occasionally by Sam Mills, both members of 23 Skidoo. Last Few Days returned as a pop outfit in 1990, with a core of Keir and Si. 

 
This album was recorded live throughout Europe during 1983 and 1984. Because of the interest in Last Few Days, they sat down and waded through 100 hours of tape slimming it down to around 24 hours. On a blisteringly hot day in June 1986, K. Warhead and S. Gross from Last Few Days sat in a small box with Dave Henderson, a pile of cassettes, an equalisation unit that no-one understood and a Revox…this is the result.

 

 

Label: Dead Man's Curve – DMC 002 

Format: Vinyl, LP 

Country: UK 

Released: 1986 

Style: Industrial, Experimental 

 

Tracklist:

A1 End It 7:29 

A2 F1 6:21 

A3 Pure Heart 5:59 

B1 Megaphobia 4:39 

B2 VVV 2:38 

B3 Ex 4:13 

B4 Soft And Sweet (Around The World) 7:05 

B5 Oh Lord! 4:08 

 

Notes: 

Tracks A1 and A3 recorded in Maastricht 

Track A2 recorded in Berlin 

Tracks on side B recorded in London

Side A is mono recordings. 

Side B is stereo recordings. 

 

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