A gig at a very early Awakenings concert organised by John Sherwood found us at the famous Brudenell Social Club in Leeds in the summer of 2005. Having spent one whole day recording Blacker at The Greenhouse we were more than ready, and decided to improvise the whole concert from start to finish.

It was also extremely loud. Gary had guitar cabinets covering both sides of the stage and things were pretty wild up there. One of us lost a filling during the performance, another was moved to physically assault a misbehaving guitar cabinet.

Musically, bass loops featured heavily. We were definitely heading for Labradford rather than Bradford. Steve had his percussion ensemble and had graced that very stage with Damo Suzuki only a month before with a similar set up, and it seems, the same shirt !

So, the spark for this reissue came from a really well recorded audience bootleg from Glen Alexander who brought it up in conversation a few days ago. Duncan liked the recording but wanted to do something off the wall with it and so made a new binaural dub edit...out of that we listened to the very powerful audience recording itself in pure form and were knocked out with its immediacy and relentlessness, even more now that the thing exists as a full 93 minute continuous piece. These are now presented alongside the original edited desk recording which made up the album itself.

So, we called it 'Triple Threat'. Three perspectives on the same concert from 20 years ago.