For this DFRC release we go back over 36 years to the first tour with Steve Hogarth. The Seasons End tour was extensive, covering 118 shows. This show is from the second European leg of the tour and was part of a 8 show stretch in Germany. It was the only time the band visited this venue.

The Heilbronn audience are really enjoying themselves throughout the concert. With the band delivering a great version of Slainte Mhath and following with a rousing Script. This tour also debuted the “magic gloves” and this is well demonstrated during The Uninvited Guest when a Perspex screen dropped from the ceiling for h to play. There are some real highlights in the show with the band and h on great form, including Warm Wet Circles, That Time Of The Night, Berlin, Seasons End and The Space.

This recording is from a stereo desk tape, but during the mid-90s onwards to save money, the DAT tapes were re-used and recorded over. Prior to this the Seasons End desk tapes were copied over to cassette tape (unfortunately to a format that degrades quicker). This is why only the main set is available and the encores were missing for nearly all the Seasons End show recordings as the cassette tapes were 90 mins.

For this show, the first half is from a cassette tape and the second half from a DAT tape which had part of the AoS demos recorded on it and so only part of the main set was left. To present the show in the most complete form possible, we edited the 2 parts together and Michael Hunter weaved his magic.

 

Includes full artwork in .pdf format.