Don’t let the lo-fi origins of this audience recording put you off. Alex “Stormy” Mundy has refreshed and invigorated The League to such an astonishing degree that it’s on a par with the Official Bootleg. [endtease]Whereas that release was compiled from four performances in Toronto and one in Denver, what we have here is one gig complete with stage announcements that suggest that had KC not reformed, Fripp could have profitably explored an alternative career as a comedian. For those who’d prefer him to shut up and play his guitar, well you get plenty of that as well. Boy At The Piano is endowed with rhapsodic flourishes that flit somewhere between Exposure and bizarrely, The Nightwatch, whilst Christian Children sounds like it could be an out-take from Bowie’s Scary Monster sessions from earlier that year. Thrang Thrang Gozinbulx II (or Imminent as it was called it then) has that revved-up ending that calls upon the spirits of Sailor’s Tale and LTIA pt2 for their blessing. There’s a slightly stunned silence at the end of it, broken by a punter saying “Heavy!” He got that right. Simply put what you have here is the best part of an hour filled with killer riffs and extraordinary out-there guitar, nattily dressed up as pile-driving music for those who like to dance with a twist of dissonance.
