The Fixx
Cy Curnin: vocals
Jamie West-Oram: guitar
Rupert Greenall: keyboards
Danny Brown: bass
Adam Woods: drums and percussion

The Living Room
Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
September 22, 1987
promoting their album "react"
performance quality: B to B+
recording quality: B
source: master audience tape
runtime: 88:41 (minutes/ seconds)

     setlist:
  1: calm animals 5:13
  2: less cities, more moving people 4:24
  3: cause to be alarmed 3:51
  4: are we ourselves? 2:50
  5: will you believe 4:05
  6: one thing leads to another 4:15
  7: outside 5:21
  8: big wall 4:46
  9: chase the fire 5:29
  10: secret seperation 4:43 (end applause spliced, tape flip)
  11: never mind what you leave behind 3:27
  12: shake and watch you fall 3:51
  13: deeper and deeper 5:01
  14: red skies 4:21
  15: encore break #1 1:55
  16: last night she cried 3:02
  17: world weary 3:58
  18: stand or fall 4:30
  19: encore break #2 1:37
  20: I'm life 4:26
  21: subterranean 3:16
  22: saved by zero 4:16

lineage: Realistic mini-mikes >
         Sony D-6 cassette deck (dolby off) >
         Maxell XLII-S master cassette > 
         played on Tascam 112 into soundforge (wav) >
         flac (sb's aligned) > torrentially yours.
         this recording is seamless and complete.
         a this and that, fixxation production.  
         Do not sell this recording.
         Share freely, losslessly and gaplessly.

comments:
  The Fixx playing in a club became fairly common after their heyday, but this was still
their heyday and one hit led to another and another and another... The latest one at this
time (I think) was "Secret Seperation". This show has some better performed songs than 
others.  Chase the Fire was also getting radio airplay, and Cause to be Alarmed was one of 
the hits from their previous tour. Both were among the better played songs in this show 
(so was Secret Seperation). Unfortunately the mix is rather bass-heavy, but the Realistic 
mini-mikes' lack of sensitivity actually helped reduce this problem. It does get a little 
better as the show goes on, and the recording is good throughout, complete and uncut. 
I was standing about 25 feet from the stage, just about dead center. This was a general 
admission, mostly standing only show (with very few seats) It's a fairly narrow room, 
and the stereo seperation did seem secret in some parts, but it has good presence, not alot 
of mike obstruction and not overbearing crowd noise. Some might find this a nice quality recording,
I think most Fixx fans will find it at least decent quality. All the instruments and vocals are
clearly heard, so too my complaint to turn the bass down (because at the show it was drowning 
everything else out, on the recording it's not as noticable.) and for them to play Sign of Fire.
I guess after some 200 signs of fire, it was time to chase it this time. They didn't do Sign of Fire,
one of my favorite Fixx songs, but they played several good ones and that's what drew me to see them
at this show. I know they have alot of good songs and are a fine live band, this was not one of their
best nights but still a fun show. The crowd had a good time, and they played 6 encores, so it must
have been a pretty good time for them. Several of the songs I had never heard live before.
 The Fixx have proven they can sound good anywhere, but I think their music sounds best in a club. 
I have not used any noise reduction or EQ on this, but someone who knows how to use EQ well and has 
a good program to do it with, could probably make this into a very nice sounding (B+) recording, 
since it is from a master and the recording has no distortion or noticable tape noise. 
I've listened to it rather often and I don't mind it as it is. Always more to come
from the Masters of Rock series, as well as its alter-ego companion, the Masters of Jazz series, among
other things too from glasnostrd19.