On November 1st 2012, UK prog rock band Twelfth Night will reissue their 1984 live release ‘Live and Let Live’.
Like other Twelfth Night releases, the album has become somewhat collectable in its original vinyl format and even a much later CD reissue (including three bonus tracks) has been long out of print.
Those previous issues featured a handful of tracks recorded at vocalist Geoff Mann’s farewell gigs recorded at The Marquee, London in the autumn of 1983. The 2012 ‘definitive edition’ offers the fans a reconstruction of the whole setlist played at the three shows!
In addition to material previously released by Twelfth Night, the new version includes two tracks featured on the Geoff Mann compilation ‘Recorded Delivery’, but perhaps most importantly of all, 5 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED PERFORMANCES, including a nineteen minute version of ‘The Collector’.
The full tracklisting and source details (courtesy of the Twelfth Night website) can be seen below:
Disc 1
1. The Ceiling Speaks recorded 4 November 1983, first released on the original Live and Let Live vinyl album in 1984
2. Human Being recorded 4 November 1983, previously unreleased
3. The End of the Endless Majority recorded 5 November 1983, remixed from the original 16-track tapes, this remix version previously unreleased
4. We Are Sane recorded 4 November 1983, first released on the original Live and Let Live vinyl album in 1984
5. Deep in the Heartland recorded 5 November 1983 (soundcheck), previously unreleased
6. Fact and Fiction recorded 5 November 1983, first released on the original Live and Let Live vinyl album in 1984
7. The Poet Sniffs a Flower recorded 4 November 1983, first released on the original Live and Let Live vinyl album in 1984
8. The Collector recorded 27 October 1983, previously unreleased
Disc 2
1. Afghan Red recorded 4 November 1983, previously unreleased
2. Sequences recorded 5 November 1983, first released on the original Live and Let Live vinyl album in 1984
3. Creepshow recorded 5 November 1983, first released on the CD reissue of Live and Let Live in 1996, remastered from the original 2-track tapes
4. Art and Illusion recorded 5 November 1983, first released on Geoff Mann’s Recorded Delivery CD in 2003, remastered from the original 2-track tapes
5. East of Eden recorded 5 November 1983, first released on the CD reissue of Live and Let Live in 1996, remastered from the original 2-track tapes
6. Aspidentropy recorded 5 November 1983, first released on Geoff Mann’s Recorded Delivery CD in 2003, remastered from the original 2-track tapes
7. Love Song recorded 5 November 1983, first released on the CD reissue of Live and Let Live in 1996, remastered from the original 2-track tapes
The 2CD version of ‘Live and Let Live’ is the fourth in a series of double disc Twelfth Night ‘definitive’ reissues. Previous titles include hugely expanded versions of ‘Art and Illusion’, ‘Live at The Target’ and the previously near impossible to find ‘Smiling At Grief’.
‘Live and Let Live’ and all other Twelfth Night definitive issues are available from the band’s official website.
In addition to the releases from the band’s archive, three band members are also playing a few live shows under the name The Cryptic Clues (possibly for the last time), including an appearance at the all day Proguphoria event (full details available here).
