Instead, this post concerns a complete Belgium concert from 2004 that was archived and sold on a limited edition DVD as Thunder in the Black Cave, and as you might guess I'm giving you the audio from it. Though I have a physical copy, I can't confirm if anyone other than Reed was present and accounted for from Red Lorry's '80s lineup. The photo to your upper-right (credit to Wikipedia) is in fact from a 2004 performance, and it looks like they're pared down to a trio from their usual four-piece setup. At the very least, the audio strikes me as a fairly lucid audience recording, though the band's consistent drony surge lends itself to becoming a bit blaring in spots. It's heavy on their early Red Rhino releases (Talk About the Weather, Paint Your Wagon, and surrounding singles like "Generation"), and their revelatory third album for Beggars Banquet, Nothing's Wrong. The setlist is downright delightful, touching on virtually necessary Lorries composition - "Spinning Round," "Hands Off Me," "Monkeys on Juice," and "Chance," to name a handful. Maybe one or two more representative cuts from 1990's Blow should have made the cut (say, "Happy to See Me") but it's really hard to complain with the nearly two-dozen numbers they selected. For those of you un/under-acquainted with the Lorries, the band's clamshell box on Cherry Red, Albums and Singles 1982-89 is a phenomenal way to get caught up.
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