Live in Japan (The Work album)

Live in Japan
Live album by
The Work
Released1982 (1982)
Recorded29 June 1982
VenueOkasa Koseinenkin Kaikan Middle Hall, Osaka, Japan
Genre
Length35:25
LabelRecommended (Japan)
The Work chronology
Slow Crimes
(1982) 		Live in Japan
(1982) 		The Worst of Everywhere
(1983)

Live in Japan is a 1982 live album by English post-punk rock group the Work. It is their second album and was recorded in Osaka, Japan on 29 June 1982. It was released on LP later in 1982 by Recommended Records in Japan, and follows on from their debut album, Slow Crimes, released earlier in 1982 by Woof Records in the United Kingdom.[1] Live in Japan was reissued in 2006 on CD by Ad Hoc Records in the United States with one extra track: "I Hate America", taken from the band's first single in 1981.[2]

After the Work recorded Slow Crimes in early 1982, Mick Hobbs and Rick Wilson left the quartet, and the remaining members, Tim Hodgkinson and Bill Gilonis formed a touring version of the Work with Amos (Jim Welton) and Chris Cutler to fulfil concert commitments in Japan. They performed three shows in Tokyo and one in Osaka in June 1982, performing material mostly from Slow Crimes.[3][4][5] The concert in Osaka was the only one recorded, and this was done using a cassette recorder half-way down the hall; the tape was later remastered using a graphic equaliser and a DBX expander.[6] After the Japanese tour the Work split up.[3]

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