This set captures some of the band’s Reading festival performances of 1980/1982. It focuses mainly on thier current material, of the time; so, you won’t find a lot of variety or “classic” Budgie tracks. The band’s performance is just fine, spirited and reasonably tight, but, they suffer from lack of a second guitarist (unlike much of the “Heavier than Air” collection), sounding thin much of the time. This problem is worsened by the major lack of low end; Burke’s bass is pretty much inaudible without major eqing. All in all, not very satisfying, even for Budgie fans. Try “Heavier than Air” for a better retrospective of live Budgie.


