Pete Short

I SAW THIS BAND IN BERLIN / AUTUMN 1981 IN A DECONSECRATED CHURCH ; AT THE TIME I'D DISCOVERED HANNIBAL , AS HE WAS KNOWN THEN & HIS SISTER PAT, WHO FROM RECORDED EVIDENCE WAS A FORMIDABLE SINGER .OUTSIDE THE VENUE I MET THE CHOIR BUT NOT HANNIBAL ;I WAS SURPRISED BY THE CHOIR'S READINESS TO SOCIALIZE,BUT I GUESS THEY WERE ON A CULTURAL PROGRA]MME S MUCH AS ANYTHING. /THE CONCERT ITSELF WAS AN EXPERIENCE OF MAGNIFICENT RESOUNDING & REVOLVING INCANDESCENCE. I AFTER THAT PARTICULAR CONCERT , I FELT MY EARS HAD BEEN OPENED FURTHER THAN EVER BEFORE ./THE WHOLE RASCIST AWARENESS -VIA SPIKE LEE'SFILM AND REVELANT CONTEMPORARY ARTICLES GAVE THE CONCERT ANOTHER DIMENSIONAL ASPECT,. THE PURITY WAS SOMEWHAT AKIN TO THAT WHICH HAD BEEN DISPLAYED BY BOB DYLAN AT THE SAME TIME, BUT EVEN MORE SO,