Regarded by fans as a classic lost performance, this shelved Mott The Hoople live set recorded in support of a Free show in Croydon runs to seven tracks, bolstered by a handful of cuts from Stockholm in 1971.
‘Fairfield Halls, Live 1970’ captures the full concert, from the tumultuous opening "Ohio," all ragged guitars and Verden Allen's foreboding organ, through a dynamite "Rock and Roll Queen" and three slabs from the then-forthcoming ‘Mad Shadows’, and on to the closing oldies, "Keep a Knockin'" and "You Really Got Me."
Five tracks recorded five months later in Sweden repeat "Thunderbuck Ram" but do add "Walkin' with a Mountain," "Laugh at Me," and "The Original Mixed-Up Kid" to the brew, plus a volcanic cover of Mountain's "Long Red" that will leave you reeling.


Mott The Hoople

Fairfield Halls, Live 1970

2007




CD / 2007 / 320Kbps


Tracklist:

# 1 – 7 Recorded at Fairfield Halls, Croydon, England on September 13th, 1970

1. Ohio

2. No Wheels To Ride

3. Rock 'N' Roll Queen

4. Thunderbuck Ram

5. When My Mind's Gone

6. Keep 'a' Knockin'

7. You Really Got Me

# 8 – 12 Recorded at The Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden on February 16th, 1971

8. Long Red

9. The Original Mixed-Up Kid

10. Walking With a Mountain

11. Laugh At Me

12. Thunderbuck Ram


Mott The Hoople:

Ian Hunter: vocals, guitar, piano

Mick Ralphs: guitar

Overend Watts: bass

Verden Allen: organ

Dale “Buffin” Griffin: drums


Mott The Hoople / Fairfield Halls, Live 1970 / 2007