The Fall "Live At The Witch Trials" VINYL LP Very Rare EXCELLENT TO NM

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Kept in protective plastic since purchased so sleeve is excellent to near mint condition. Vinyl has fingerprints that I will clean before I ship.

Live at the Witch Trials is the debut studio album by The Fall. It wast released on 16 March 1979, through record label Step-Forward. It is not, despite its title, a live album, but was recorded in the studio in the period of one day and mixed by producer Bob Sargeant the next. No singles were taken from the album, a practice that would be commonplace for the group until 1986.

Some songs dated from earlier incarnations of the group with both Tony Friel and Una Baines featuring on the writing credits. By the time the album was released, drummer Karl Burns had left the band and guitarist Martin Bramah also quit shortly afterwards to form Blue Orchids, leaving Mark E. Smith as the sole remaining founder member.

The album was given a generally positive reception by music critics.

Production

The album was recorded at Camden Sound Suite on 15 December 1978 and mixed by producer Bob Sargeant the next day. The group had been booked into the studio for a week but Mark E. Smith had fallen ill, leading to the cancellation of the first 3 days.[1] Some songs dated from earlier incarnations of the group with both Tony Friel and Una Baines featuring on the writing credits.

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[edit] Release

The album was released on 16 March 1979, through the record label Step-Forward. The US release of the album, also in 1979, came in alternate artwork and removed "Mother-Sister!" and "Industrial Estate", replacing them with "Various Times", the B-side of the group's second single, "It's the New Thing". All subsequent editions have followed the original UK tracklisting.

The album was available in its original form until the late '80s, being reissued on vinyl, cassette and CD by IRS Records in 1989. In 1997, Mark E. Smith's own Cog Sinister label issued a CD edition that was poorly mastered from a below-standard vinyl copy. However, in conjunction with Voiceprint, Cog Sinister reissued the album again in 2002 as Live at the Witch Trials +, claiming to be remastered but was, in fact, simply a clone of the IRS disc, and adding the tracks from the group's first two singles, "Bingo Master's Breakout" and "It's The New Thing". In 2004, Castle Music released a two-disc CD "Expanded Deluxe Edition" of the album, mastered from the original tapes and with a vastly expanded tracklisting. However, the Castle Music reissue used a vinyl source for the three "Bingo Masters Break Out" EP tracks, the original tapes having been lost.

No singles were taken from the album, a practice that would be commonplace for the group until 1986.