set 1: "The Weird One" 23'30" (video exists)

set 1: "Twilight Terminal"
set 2: "Polymorphing" Endgame + Maureen Anderson (not recorded)

set 1: Jim Tetlow (solo), Alan Freeman (solo), Alto Stratus, Steve Freeman (solo)
set 2: "We Are The ENDGAME"
set 3: "Ghosts In The Mechanism" and "The Sound Of One Eye Laughing"
set 4: "Blitzoid" unplanned encore

Attended by a very enthusiastic crowd, it was a hot and sticky night, full of invention. Deliberately unrehearsed, spontaneous music for our first full gig. We scorched our ears and brains with the encore!

set 1: Endgame + Maureen Anderson & Dave Johnson (not recorded)

A true Polymorph experience, and a great set that freaked-out almost Gong-like towards the end. But, with Shapeshifter turning up late, then someone turned the power off and I had to reset everything, I got flustered and forgot to record it.

set 1: Alan solo, Endgame + guests (inc. "Mantra" and "3 Cultures")
set 2: Steve solo, Endgame + guests (inc. "Aquarian")
set 3: Endgame "Irrigation", inc. Jim Tetlow solo
set 4: encore: "Hexagram", Endgame + guests.

+ Carl Peberdy: vocals, sitar, Mick Oxtoby: violin, guitar (sets 1, 2, 4)
+ surprise guest: Howard (from Nottingham) on clarinet (set 4)

A mixed success, but something I'd always wanted to do since the big jam days with Shapeshifter, do it totally free-form, allow people to go up on stage and leave as they please. It gave Carl the freedom to really express himself. Yet Mick's violin didn't record so well. Again, the musical bounds of Endgame were extended, from Frippertronics, via cross-culture world-music, raga-rock (like a mad churning Amon Düül, to quote one audience member) onto more usual Endgame fare (if there is any such thing). We also had a surprise guest on clarinet (from Nottingham) at one point. Our longest gig, well over 3 hours, it did get a bit rambly and noodly in parts, thus why the CD release is quite selective.

Set 1: 3 Endgame solos: Jim, Alan, Steve, plus: Alto Stratus (Alan & Steve)
Set 2: "Voice Of The Master" (master tape incomplete)
Set 3: "The Farmyard Sits In The Goyfuls" (master tape incomplete)

A great gig, even if only 2 of the 50 or so that said they were definitely coming turned up. So, thanks to the other 17 that all had their first taster of Endgame live, and those that stayed braving the cold. We were on a roll, and the invention frothed over and over, getting totally carried away with set, adding up to a 3 hour marathon.

Set 1: "Full Moon At Nine", 44'00" approx.
Set 2: inc. "Digestive Tract", "Brain Stem" and "Frequencies", total 38'00".
Set 3: encore "Snake Steal A Rash", 20'00" approx.

Good job that an enthusiastic small audience is all that's needed to have a great time, and we wigged it out for 2 hours of sizzling weaving music, all unique and new!

set 1: Steve Freeman (solo), Alto Stratus, Jim Tetlow (solo), Alan Freeman (solo)
set 2: Endgame + Dave Powell "I'm Not Messing With That"
set 3: "Stop Playing Around, And Get On With It!" 35'30" approx.
set 4: Endgame + Dave Powell encore (not recorded)

+ Dave Powell: hurdy-gurdy (sets 2, 4).

Endgame and a hurdy-gurdy? A really strange experience indeed! This time we had all new solo sets by all 3 Endgamers & an Alto Stratus "PsYcHoSiS" excursion, followed by 3 sets of Endgame (2 with Dave).

set 1: "Help, I'm Being Repressed!" 36'00" approx.
set 2: inc. "Gestation of the Organism" and "Evacuation" total 46'00".
set 3: Endgame + Dave Powell "Over The Edge" 41'00" approx.

+ Dave Powell: hurdy-gurdy (set 3).

Our last at The Victory, it seems (as the landlord has changed). So, as we were having to pay for the room, and we didn't need to play it safe, it seems we all put on our weird hats and decided to really trip on the edge of dementia. Bizarre it was.

set 1: "Invocation of the cruel master!" 33'00" approx. «on "Nucleoplasm"»
set 2: "Close To the Edge" 10'00" approx. «on "Nucleoplasm"»

A special reduced instrumentation version of Endgame: Alan (synth, effects, mixer), Steve (sounds, turntable, loops), Jim (bowed guitar), for a cosmic/swirling set!

set 1: Endgame circa 30 mins
set 2: Chris Conway & The Planet Scanners
set 3: the big jam "In Warmer Times" circa 65 mins

A more normal version of Endgame: Alan (guitar, guitar-synth, effects, mixer), Steve (sounds, turntable, loops, bass), Jim (keyboard, electronics, tapes, voice).