For a band who have been doing the rounds for close on half a century now, GENE LOVES JEZEBEL can’t boast an appropriate number of onstage albums, and there was only one released in the Welsh group’s first – and, arguably, finest – decade, “Glad To Be Alive” from 1986, issued hot on the heels of a Nottingham show it documented. The problem was that recording saw the light as a limited edition and had only six pieces out of the seventeen the ensemble performed on March 17th, so a new version seemed long overdue. Finally, a CD variant will arrive on December 31st.
Subtitled “The Complete Concert” and running much longer than the original EP, it features interesting takes on the collective’s yet-to-be-out “Discover” alongside other future classics, which make this reissue indispensable for all post-punk connoisseurs.
Glad To Be Alive:
Live In Nottingham 1986
(The Complete Concert)
1. Upstairs
2. Heartache *
3. Shame *
4. Over The Rooftops
5. The Rhino Plasty
6. Stephen *
7. Shower Me With Brittle Punches
8. The Immigrant
9. Cow
10. Worth Waiting For
11. Bruises *
12. Desire *
13. Always A Flame *
14. Pop Tarantula
15. Psycho 2 *
16. Sweetest Thing *
17. Punch Drunk *
* previously unreleased
