LIVE AND LET LIVE

From start to finish this is one of the best live albums ever released, recorded during Geoff Mann's farewell gigs the emotion is high, especially throughout Love Song. The album starts with The Ceiling Speaks and the sheer power of this song is awesome, in fact this is the first classic in an album bursting with them. Weare Sane and Fact and Fiction follow keeping the standard high and following a brief respite with the instrumental Poet the album reaches Sequences abitter tale of the first world war, Geoff's lyrics bite home and his re-enactment of going over the top is breath taking, there follows the bittersweet requim. The first encore and the only song that could follow is the chilling Creepshow, a quick romp through East of Eden and the album/gig ends with the emotional Love Song which includes the farewell to Geoff and an anthemic coda. Of course the band replaced Geoff with the capable Andy Sears but one can only imagine what heights the band may have scaled had Geoff stayed, when you consider that Sequences had only been released as an instrumnetal before, their next album would surely have been a classic. Geoff sadly passed away and Twelfth Night never had the success they should have, but this album is a great reminder of them and is as relevant and exciting today and it was when released.