{"id":1521,"date":"2011-11-13T11:08:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T11:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sleigh-munoz.co.uk\/quims\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2011-11-16T19:27:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T19:27:35","slug":"a-certain-ratio-band-on-the-wall-manchester-111111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sleigh-munoz.co.uk\/quims\/2011\/11\/13\/a-certain-ratio-band-on-the-wall-manchester-111111\/","title":{"rendered":"A Certain Ratio – Band On The Wall, Manchester 11\/11\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Having a 331<\/sup>\/3 <\/sub>party is a great idea (I never got around to it but I did have one when 45<\/a>). ACR<\/a> have entered their 4th<\/sup> decade as a band on good form (check out 2008\u2019s \u2018Mind Made Up\u2019 LP) and tonight\u2019s show saw them reviewing their career over 2 sets in chronological order.<\/p>\n

Lee and I dropped the kids off at mum+dads and eventually found a place to park in Manchester City Centre near the Band on the Wall. This was our first time since the venue has been done up and re-opened and it won’t be the last!\u00a0 We got in just as ACR took the stage with the drumless \u2018All night Party\u2019 with original member Simon Topping taking on the vocals once again \u2013 great to see him again!<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re then treated to the likes of \u2018Shack Up\u2019, \u2018Flight\u2019, Knife slits water\u2019\u2026etc. What a back catalogue! There\u2019s a Q+A at half time including questions fans had posted on their Facebook page. Matin put up his hand written notes of early gigs, how much they got paid and how many people were there – “Sad!” said Jez with a little shake of his head. I was just the same<\/a>. When the other members of the band couldn’t remember dates, Martin came to the rescue.<\/p>\n

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Martin: We played BOTW a lot early on, look – we made \u00a313 that night!<\/p>\n

Dojo: they were weird but I liked it \u2013 they didn\u2019t talk to me for a year after I\u2019d joined!<\/p>\n

Martin: Success? What is success \u2013 we\u2019ve had 18 LP\u2019s and 50 singles and are still going \u2013 most bands would love to be in our position.<\/p>\n

Dojo: Madonna was a nightmare. Jez: she sang to a backing track with 2 other dancers, I\u2019d never seen that before.<\/p>\n

Martin: We supported Talking Heads on their \u2018Fear of Music\u2019 tour \u2013 it was going to be the Human League but they dropped them when they found out that they didn\u2019t appear on stage \u2013 just did tapes and a projection.<\/p>\n

Dojo: I loved the DIY aspect of Factory. I remember us all going in to help out \u2013 putting Durruti Column records into those sandpaper sleeves.<\/p>\n

Jez: We had a break for 7 years, which really helped. We were happy to get back together after that. Denise Johnson: Yeah they actually smile now!<\/p>\n

Martin: It was Rob Gretton who first spotted us not Tony Wilson. He put our stuff out on \u2018Rob\u2019s records\u2019 saying \u201cYou\u2019re not a proper record label til you\u2019ve lost money on ACR\u201d<\/p>\n

Jez: I\u2019m not on this photo \u2013 I\u2019d been drinking cider whilst Martin Hannett made them play the guitars again and again. I drank 2 litles and Tony Wilson had to take me to casualty!<\/p>\n

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I\u2019d sent some questions and they got answered – \u00a0The Jez+Vini Reilly stuff on \u2018From Brussels with Love\u2019 \u2013 was it specially recorded for that LP or was there other stuff from that session?<\/p>\n

Jez: That was Vini\u2019s reaction to Ian\u2019s death and he asked me to sing on it.<\/p>\n

Donald. you play on Kane Gangs \u2018Gun Law\u2019 \u2013 any other non-ACR stuff we should know about?<\/p>\n

Dojo: I play drums on Liza Minelli\u2019s LP that the Pet Shop Boys produced.<\/p>\n

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The 2nd<\/sup> set Starts with \u2018Wild Party\u201d and contained blistering versions of \u2018The Big E\u2019 (dedicated to a recently deceased friend) and \u2018Good Together\u2019. Their funky soul tracks after that didn\u2019t have the same punch for me but the final tracks from \u2018Mind made up\u2019 were pure ACR.<\/p>\n

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For an encore they did 2 songs they\u2019d already done but no one minded \u2013 \u2018Shack Up\u2019 with Denise on Vocals and a longer version of \u2018Si Firmi O Grido\u2019 which quite frankly could have gone on all night for me \u2013 Loved it!<\/p>\n

Bob the Chiropodist<\/p>\n

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Having a 331\/3 party is a great idea (I never got around to it but I did have one when 45). ACR have entered their 4th decade as a band on good form (check out 2008\u2019s \u2018Mind Made Up\u2019 LP) and tonight\u2019s show saw them reviewing their career over 2 sets in chronological order. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gigs-reviews","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleigh-munoz.co.uk\/quims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleigh-munoz.co.uk\/quims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleigh-munoz.co.uk\/quims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleigh-munoz.co.uk\/quims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleigh-munoz.co.uk\/quims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sleigh-munoz.co.uk\/quims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1549,"href":"https:\/\/sleigh-munoz.co.uk\/quims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/1549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleigh-munoz.co.uk\/quims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleigh-munoz.co.uk\/quims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleigh-munoz.co.uk\/quims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}