25.04.1984
UK, Manchester, The Gallery
Reckoning Tour Manchester
vg / exc. Audience

Disc 1: [43:52]
01. Pale Blue Eyes [4:15]
02. Moral Kiosk [part] [3:43]
03. Walk, Don't Run [1:16]
04. If I Had A Hammer [0:50]
05. So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star [2:01]
06. Moral Kiosk [3:22]
07. Just A Touch [2:48]
08. Seven Chinese Brothers [4:23]
09. Pilgrimage [4:10]
10. Talk About The Passion [3:08]
11. So. Central Rain [3:09]
12. Letter Never Sent [3:06]
13. Harborcoat [4:22]
14. West Of The Fields [3:14]

Disc 2: [40:00]
01. Gardening At Night [3:43]
02. 9-9 [3:08]
03. Windout [1:58]
04. Radio Free Europe [3:39]
05. Little America [3:28]
06. Barney Miller Theme [1:06]
07. Walters Theme [1:26]
08. Second Guessing [3:16]
09. Time After Time (Annelise) [4:01]
10. Femme Fatale [3:18]
11. California Dreamin' [2:51]
12. We Walk [3:16]
13. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) [4:43]

Notes:
Here’s one of my favourite ever R.E.M. bootlegs. I converted this to CD a long time ago, and I shared it with a couple of people (literally 2, maybe 3 people). Since then I’ve added some new track IDs which I missed first time around.

This is pretty darned clear recording, I couldn’t do much at the time about the slight hiss which is on it. Mp3 attached below.

It’s great for a number of reasons.
 
1. It’s a decent recording.
2. If you like a bit of crowd banter between songs, this is a peach, at one point some bloke in Lancashire accent starts banging on about 12 year-old groupies, I know not why. 
3. This is the one where the PA breaks down and the band fill-in with style: playing the instrumental 'Walk, Don't Run' and then the folk song 'If I Had A Hammer' until it was fixed. Between 'If I Had A Hammer' and 'So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star' Michael says "The first time this has ever happened to us, and we're going to celebrate with a really bad song"
4. I love Peter’s raw attacking guitar sound on this recording.

Unbelievably there is a video recording (now on DVD of course) of this show, but beware, the band are partially obscured by pillar.