Live in Concert (Sad Café album)
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{{Infobox album
| name = Live in Concert
| type = live
| artist = Sad Café
| cover = Sad Café Live in Concert.jpg
| caption =
| released = March 1981
| recorded = 15–17 April 1980
| venue = Manchester Apollo, Manchester
| studio =
| genre = Pop rock
| length = 79:54
| label = RCA
| producer = {{hlist|Neil Levine|Sad Café}}
| prev_title = Sad Café
| prev_year = 1980
| next_title = Olé
| next_year = 1981
}}
{{album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{rating|2|5}}{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/live-mw0000843733|title=Live – Sad Café
| rev2 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev2Score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite book|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|publisher=Omnibus Press|edition=5th concise|year=2011|last=Larkin|first=Colin|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|authorlink=Colin Larkin (writer)}}
}}
Live in Concert is a live double album by English rock band Sad Café, released in March 1981 by RCA Records. It was the band's only live album while together and was the last album by the band to be released under RCA. The album peaked at number 37 on the UK Albums Chart.{{Cite web|title=SAD CAFE {{!}} full Official Chart History {{!}} Official Charts Company|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/17972/sad-cafe/|website=www.officialcharts.com|access-date=2020-04-30}}
The album was recorded at the Manchester Apollo, across three days in April 1980 (15 to 17 April) as part of a 24 concert 'Tour of Britain' to promote the band's third album Facades which had been released in September 1979.{{Cite web|title=Sad Cafe Concert Programme March & April 1980|url=http://www.the10ccfanclub.com/collectors/programmes/progsc80a.htm|website=www.the10ccfanclub.com|access-date=2020-04-30}} The live album includes songs from the band's first three albums. The song "I Believe (Love Will Survive)" was also performed, but not included on the album. It was instead included on the Live in Concert EP, along with "Black Rose", "Emptiness" and "Hungry Eyes", released in February 1981. The album was reissued on CD by Cherry Red Records on 20 October 2014 and included "I Believe (Love Will Survive)" as a bonus track.{{Cite web|title=Sad Café Live (2CD)|url=https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/sad-cafe-live-2cd/|website=Cherry Red Records|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-30}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| headline = Side one
| title1 = On with the Show
| writer1 = Paul Young, Ian Wilson, Vic Emerson, Ashley Mulford, John Stimpson
| length1 = 6:47
| title2 = Emptiness
| writer2 = Young, Mulford, Wilson
| length2 = 3:53
| title3 = Strange Little Girl
| writer3 = Mulford
| length3 = 4:42
| title4 = Hungry Eyes
| writer4 = Young, Emerson
| length4 = 5:35
}}{{Track listing
| headline = Side two
| title1 = La-Di-Da
| writer1 = Young, Stimpson
| length1 = 5:10
| title2 = What Am I Gonna Do
| writer2 = Wilson
| length2 = 4:32
| title3 = Keeping It from the Troops
| writer3 = Young, Wilson, Mulford, Stimpson, Dave Irving, Emerson, Lenni Zaksen
| length3 = 7:01
| title4 = Every Day Hurts
| writer4 = Young, Stimpson, Emerson
| length4 = 4:02
}}{{Track listing
| headline = Side three
| title1 = Take Me to the Future
| writer1 = Wilson, Young, Stimpson
| length1 = 3:57
| title2 = Feel Like Dying
| writer2 = Young
| length2 = 4:04
| title3 = Immortal
| writer3 = Stimpson, Mulford
| length3 = 5:11
| title4 = Restless
| writer4 = Stimpson, Young, Wilson, Mulford
| length4 = 7:40
}}{{Track listing
| headline = Side four
| title1 = My Oh My
| writer1 = Young, Emerson
| length1 = 5:00
| title2 = Black Rose
| writer2 = Young, Stimpson
| length2 = 4:40
| title3 = Bell Ends
| writer3 = Young
| length3 = 7:40
| total_length = 79:54
}}{{Track listing
| headline = 2014 Cherry Red bonus track
| title16 = I Believe (Love Will Survive)
| writer16 = Young
| length16 = 4:15
}}
Personnel
- Paul Young – lead vocals
- Ashley Mulford – lead guitar, backing vocals
- Ian Wilson – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
- John Stimpson – bass guitar, backing vocals
- Vic Emerson – keyboards
- Dave Irving – drums
- Lenni Zaksen – saxophone
- Neil Levine – recording engineer, producer, remixing
- Nigel Walker – recording engineer
- Recorded at the Manchester Apollo using the Island Mobile; remixed at Revolution Studios, Manchester