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tracks
1. War Babies  [Live]
2. I Travel  [Live]
3. Glitterball  [Live]
4. Hypnotised  [Live]
5. Big Sleep  [Live]
6. Someone Somewhere (In Summertime)  [Live]
7. Thirty Frames A Second  [Live]
8. Waterfront  [Live]
9. Let There Be Love  [Live]
10. New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84)  [Live]
11. Love Song  [Live]
12. Belfast Child  [Live]
13. Alive And Kicking  [Live]


catalogue
SML 2106
SML 2106


format
CD in jewel case with two page colour booklet.


release date
1997


quality
8/10 (21st June 1997)


additional information
The newly reformed Simple Minds of 1997 (with Derek and Mel returning to the fold) featured a rejuvenated set-list which recovered some previously forgotten gems from the back catalogue. So I Travel and Thirty Frames A Second made welcome returns, rubbing shoulders with the staple Simple Minds fare, along with the yet-to-be-released Glitterball and War Babies.

The two new tracks were being premiered to gauge audience reaction after the top-brass at Chrysalis questioned the material. The audience give both songs a resolute thumbs-up.

More News From This World was the only bootleg to emerge from this short festival tour. Recorded at Loreley (which was also filmed and broadcast), the crowd-heavy audience recording is sometimes drowned by shouts and screams but the band eventually emerge through the noise (although the mix is a little unbalanced at times).

An important bootleg it documents one of the first public performances of War Babies (which is slightly different from the eventual album version), unique lyrics in I Travel and the Neapolis-style version of Alive And Kicking. Don’t let the minimal Live In The City Of Light artwork put you off.

Recommended.








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