Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

Prunes on acid, that would be hard to beat. I saw them in 85 in some alldayer with a rake of lousy neopsychedelic bands ,they stood out a country mile.Someone had obviously dosed a large number of the crowd with bad acid and a lot of people spent the day raving and drooling in the corners, I suspect the Prunes caused a fair few nightmares that day

edit I suppose the question needs to be asked , You're going to see Pere Ubu with support from the Virgin Prunes, who decided that this experience was going to be improved with acid?

The bonus tracks are not from the same show but actually taken from the Keystone shows in 1976 with a slightly different line up (return of Phil Ryan and a brand new bassist). There is an entire Keystone show appended to the reissue of Welsh Connection and is well worth the price of admission. Terry Williams is especially brilliant on that one. Which is saying something. The whole thing has a menace not present on All's Well That Ends Well with its more relaxed, party vibe. So, if you love Maximum Darkness and want to hear that kind of thing done live with a more exciting bass player, then it's a must-have. And you get to actually hear what is absent on Maximum Darkness - the triple guitar front line with John Cippolina, if only on the last four songs.

I know. I was a stupid boy. I must have figured Pere Ubu's psych garage band components could only be enhanced. I had not bargained on the Prunes though. All that stuff with wedding dresses and baby dolls did my head in.

haha! Yes, well remembered, that was the one I was at too - also chemically enhanced but with smokables rather than acid. Blimey that must have been quite an experience!

I was convinced the Prunes were doing it AT me. That it was a personally directed wind-up. Pere Ubu were a blessed relief after that. The evening was topped off with a midnight screening of Polanski's The Tenant in a double bill with Performance. Those were the days!