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Coil – All Tomorrow’s Parties – Camber Sands, Camber, UK (2003-04-06) [AMT #2]

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Coil Live at All Tomorrow’s Parties Camber Sands, Camber, UK April 6, 2003 Feeling: Shrouded AMT #2 Taper: Anthony Child Quality: 8+/10 Complete: No Length: 60 min Lowest Gen: M1, 720 x 576 rendered as 1280 x 720 MOV Comments: Surfaced June 6, 2019. Recorded with permission from Peter. Filmed on a tripod from behind the stage and stage right. Uses SBD audio. Missing "Triple Sun Introduction." "Snow Falls Into Military Temples" and "A Slip in the Marylebone Road" cut in. Triple Sun Introduction (Missing) 1. Snow Falls Into Military Temples 0:02 Banter 16:52 2. A Slip in the Marylebone Road 17:34 3. Triple Sons and the One You Bury 27:51 Banter 40:57 4. The Dreamer is Still Asleep – The Somnambulist in an Ambulance 42:18 Exclusive gig. Only performances of all songs except “Snow Falls Into Military Temples” and “Triple Sons and the One You Bury” This was John Balance’s only public performance in 2003. Following this show, his drug addictions only intensified, leading him to spending most of the year at home in bed. According to Thighpaulsandra, he and Peter were worried he wouldn’t show up to the gig at all, let alone come up with anything lyrically. It was only because Ian designed the dress John chose to wear and walked him up the stage hand did he actually perform. Peter spent most of the concert barely paying attention to John, imposing a similar remoteness between the two not felt since the Megalithomania gig the previous year. John was mentally aided by the fact that the band were performing all new material and thus he would not have to live up to any kind of standard, but he still spent the show wide-eyed and spaced out. Perhaps in part because of those things, he was also particularly talkative at this gig, his voice quivering shyly. The stage setup was odd. From audience perspective, the projector screen stood offstage to the left. Thighpaulsandra and Peter played back to back, with Thighpaulsandra’s Fenix synthesizer looking like a kind of wall between him and John, forcing John to walk a distance around the stage to speak to Peter periodically. Coil debuted three brand new primary backing video projections at this show, which Peter recycled for most of the following Coil concerts. "A Slip in the Marylebone Road" details a true occasion where John and some of his friends were robbed on a street in London called the Marylebone Road, where he lost a green notebook, which contained numerous lyrics and other ideas. Him and Peter were devastated by the loss and even offered a reward for it on the Hollyfield Coil Mailing Lists, but it was never recovered. By the time of this gig, Foxtrot had been out for five years. This benefit release raised funds to send John to a proper alcohol rehabilitation center, meaning John’s alcoholism was very well-known by fans such as these audience members, as they quote the song "Heartworms" at him. LCA Concert Page, containing more info: http://live-coil-archive.com/2003-2/2003-all-tomorrows-parties/ John Balance – vocals Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson – Ableton sequence, video projections, Clavia Nord Modular Synthesizer Thighpaulsandra – Fenix Synthesizer, Kurzweil Synthesizer Tom Edwards – marimba Recordings: AUD #1: https://archive.org/details/Coil_Live_at_the_All_Tomorrows_Parties_April_6_2003 SBD #1: https://archive.org/details/Coil...AndTheAmbulanceDiedInHisArms AMT #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Ce7fbSpZM AMT #2: https://archive.org/details/Coil_LiveATP2003_April62003_AMT2

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