Fuck the PRs and fuck the chainstore-propelled mass consumption bullshit: THIS is what punk is about. You want nourishing? Try this 23-track single. You read that right. Not only does There Is No Courage Unless There Is Real Danger feature said final track from JPL’s Once Like A Spark album (oh, you know – furious, fast and passionate), but tagged after it like some additional over-sized growth on Lemmy’s face are a slew of session tracks and a complete live set recorded at London’s Islington Academy. Sure, the quality’s not up there with ‘proper’ live albums (the whole thing’s captured by a single microphone set up above the stage), but the energy comes through as vividly as if you were there yourself. If you were, you need this. If not, well, you need it even more.
If that didn’t represent value enough, the profits from this single go to the International Committee of the Red Cross. So you, the forgotten kids, get your punk rock, and they give the money to charity.
At this time of year, it’s almost too perfect a pairing.
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The live recording is outstanding - you can really hear the passion in the performance. It was at the end of a 30-date tour, and they still tear into every song as if it's both the first and the last time they'll play them.
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They are so, so good live.
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"HEY YOU ON YOUR PHONE - FUCK OFF. PHONES ARE SO UN PUNKROCK. LECTURING YOUR AUDIENCE ABOUT FUCK ALL OVER BREAKDOWNS IS SO VERY COOL"?
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they had a go at someone for daring to answer their phone during the gig.
does it have a repeat of the infamous, truck festival
it was a breakdown
he was lecturing us.
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Frankly, it's severely fucking annoying when people yap into mobiles at gigs - I normally tell them to shut the fuck up. Too few bands take any interest in what goes in the crowd, it's good to see someone who does.
He wasn't lecturing "us", he was lecturing some little bastard who decided that his conversation was *so* damned important, everyone else around him could go hang because he had to talk. If he wanted to answer his phone, he should have fucked off out of the barn.
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his short attack on one fan was part of a larger lecture that was towards all of us.
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love this band tho! amazing live. i remember andrew telling me they were going to do a live album. at £4 too its a bargain
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the whole thing is in many ways a very good idea - theres so much space not used on a cd single, lets fill it up - and good on them for giving proceeds to charity (i always thought that bands barely made any money from such things, so to give it away is almost stupidly admirable), but really it is just a pretty crappy (sound quality + they arent really very good) album being released for £4.
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From what I've seen, anything that is over 3 tracks in length tends to go for £2.99 - recent examples have been that there DiS Martha Wainwright EP, and one by The Drama, put out by Fierce Panda. £4 is, although probably not *new* single priced, what you'd generally pay for a single after the first week of release.
(sound quality + they arent really very good)
The sound quality is fine - every instrumental / vocal is more that audible, the recording isn't flat and lifeless. I've got a load of bootlegs, and this knocks spots off 99% of them. What, I assume, Mr Diver means is that it doesn't have the corrections / production sheen given to most live recordings - its as raw and honest as you'll get, but still completely listenable.
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Damn.
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even poor recordings of JPL blow a lot of bands out of the water.....plus all those tracks on a single! value for money for sure !
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And it's great.
I don't know how people can complain.
If they don't like the band, it's OK.
But you can't complain that a band give so much for their fans for so little money !
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Yes the live show aint the best quality,( ever heard a gbv lp?) but in a years time ppl will be saying , 'sheeeewoozer' i wish i bought that. Or to some effects that phrase.
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My favourite rant on the Cd is on 'conventional thought' and it's rallying call 'They made me do it!'
"THINK ABOUT IT! WHAT DID THEY FUCKING MAKE YOU DO"
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