Set List:

*The Red And The Black / Get Gettin' Down Down / Rebel Girl / The Red And The Black / Walking The Cow / Big Train / Big Bang Theory / Little Johnny Jewel / Forever-One Reporter's Opinion / I Have Always Been Here Before / Ball Buster / The Glory Of Man / I Felt Like A Gringo / Search / The 15th / Prelude / Surfin' With The Shah / Ack Ack Ack / Little Man With A Gun In His Hand / Fear Is A Man's Best Friend / Song For Igor / The Blue Mask / Chinese Firedrill / We Are Time / Formal Introduction / All Hands On The Bad One / Joe McCarthy's Ghost / E-Ticket Ride / TV Eye

• Another fabulous mid-tour show from Watt And The Pair of Pliers. I was at this one, and am the person who had the foresight to bring along a Sony Digital 8 camcorder and Sharp MD recorder to preserve this concert for the ages. This is definitely one of the best gigs I ever went to. There was generally a high level of energy, both onstage, and in the audience. Although there are a couple of very minor clams the band played this show pretty tight. The Minutemen numbers in particular sound out in this show. Tom reprises his vocals on The Glory Of Man (which almost sounds like it was written for him). Vince sings a really powerful I Felt Like A Gringo, which is for me, probably the best Minutemen song from this show. Also of particular note was an enjoyable pair of Urinals songs: Ack Ack Ack, and Surfin' With The Shah. Older watt fans and Minutemen fanatics may recognize Surfin' With The Shah from the early Minutemen shows, and of course, Ack Ack Ack from Three-Way Tie For Last. TV Eye turned out to be a bit of a surprise. The club started playing music after the first encore, and people started to get ready to go, when out of the blue, the band came back on stage to play it, and even dared to be slightly theatric, slightly mocking the movements of 1970s hard rock bands (without mocking the god-like Stooges, of course). Final element of note is that Vince plays two really good drums solos on Get Gettin' Down Down and Surfin' With The Shah.

  The video I shot is of reasonable quality. Although I started shooting with a tripod, I ended up standing on a chair and held the camera in my hands, to get a better view. Unfortunately I had to use the night shot setting to get adequate lighting which meant desaturating the colour and giving it a greenish hue. Beyond that, it is pretty good picture quality,and the audio turned out well, by video standards. I would rate the picture an A-, and the sound for the video a B. Props to Paul Williamson for filming the beginning and the encores while I gave my back a well-deserved rest (if you're going to film on a chair, make sure it's stable!). (EC)