Clive Mitten: Live Fact And Let Fiction Live

Buy the CD: £16.00

Line up: Clive Mitten

Recorded: 2024

Disc 1

  1. The Ceiling Speaks - 24 track from 05/11/83 (07.06)
  2. Deep in the Heartland - Audience stereo from 05/11/83 (04.27)
  3. We Are Sane - 24 track from 05/11/83 (11.56)
  4. Human Being - Studio stereo from Fact and Fiction (07.31)
  5. This City - Studio stereo from Fact and Fiction (03.59)
  6. World Without End - Studio stereo from Fact and Fiction (01.18)
  7. Fact and Fiction - 24 track from 04/11/83 (05.46)
  8. The Poet Sniffs a Flower - 24 track from 04/11/83 (03.39)
  9. Creepshow - Studio stereo from Fact and Fiction (11.37)
  10. End of the Endless Majority - 24 track from 05/11/83 soundcheck (03.15)

Disc 2

  1. The Collector - Studio stereo from Collector’s Item (18.26)
  2. Afghan Red - Studio stereo from Twelfth Night (1980) (10.48)
  3. Sequences - 24 track from 04/11/83 (16.13)
  4. Art and Illusion - Studio stereo from 05/11/83 (03.52)
  5. East of Eden - Studio stereo from 05/11/83 (04.32)
  6. Aspidentropy - Studio stereo from 05/11/83 (07.48)
  7. Love Song - Studio stereo from 05/11/83 (07.27)

Previously only available as a download this is a very limited edition 2CD release of Clive’s ground-breaking re-creation of our two most-loved albums, combined in its title. Re-imagined by Clive Mitten in his home studio, it includes versions of all the tracks from Fact And Fiction 1982’s studio album and all the tracks played at Geoff’s farewell gigs in 1983 released on the Definitive Edition version of Live And Let Live. 17 tracks in total running to well over two hours of music!

All the CDs will be signed by Clive and numbered to guarantee their exclusivity!

It is a bold, ambitious project that Clive has undertaken. He spent most of 2024 working on it, grappling with the AI technology that has enabled him to (partially) unmix the tracks, add new elements, before remixing them again. His aim was to present the albums differently, and in the case of  Fact & Fiction, in the way that he felt they should have sounded. Has he succeeded? Well, there’s only one way for you to find out!

This is what Clive is saying.

“This album, my sixth, is the one of which I am most proud. And the one with which I am most pleased.

It has been a year of hard work but a joy to be on stage and in the studio again with Geoff, Brian, Rick and Rev. And I think the results are well worth it. 17 tracks of classic Geoff era Twelfth Night. With the man himself sounding great.”

The double CD is accompanied by a 12-page booklet that details how Clive put the album together and gives information on each track. Lovingly created by the masterful Spencer Rowbotham it contains a number of previously unpublished paintings and drawings by Geoff. There are also a few photos of the band members taken from Clive’s personal collection.

The original performers on the two albums were:

FACT AND FICTION: Brian Devoil: Drums, percussion, Geoff Mann: Vocals, tape effects, Clive Mitten Bass, keyboards, classical guitar, Andy Revell: Electric and acoustic guitar, Jane Mann: Additional vocals (World Without End, Fact And Fiction).

LIVE AND LET LIVE: Geoff Mann: vocals, percussion, Andy Revell: guitar, keyboards, Clive Mitten: bass, bass pedals, keyboards, classical guitar, guitar, second voice, Rick Battersby: keyboards, Brian Devoil: drums, percussion.