LA 4 - Centro Ibérico (aka Spanish Anarchists' Centre), London, UK, 1st May 1982
MEMBERS: William Bennett, Glenn Michael Wallis, John Murphy
TRACKLISTING: non-linear improvisational performance
NOTES: audience 100 / this live action was originally arranged for the Musician’s Collective but some members complained and Whitehouse was banned shortly before date / support is Neo-Naturist Cabaret / LIve Action 04 was released in its entirety on the whitehouse LP Psychopathia Sexualis
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: the Centro Ibérico was a disused primary school in London's Harrow Road which had been taken over by Spanish Anarchist squatters, Throbbing Gristle had also performed a Sunday lunchtime show there a few weeks before
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