For those unaware, the first fully authorized concert album from San Francisco new wave band Romeo Void was captured during the same months they were recording their debut album, It’s a Condition.

This 11-song set features eight of those album tracks as well as the later B-side, Guards, and two previously unreleased songs, including a cover of the Swingin’ Medallions 1966 hit Double Shot of My Baby’s Love.

This crucial document provides a snapshot of the band that would soon win notoriety with the MTV hits Never Say Never and A Girl in Trouble (Is a Temporary Thing).

1. Guards
2. Nothing for Me
3. Confrontation
4. Fine Line Number
5. Charred Remains
6. Drop Your Eyes
7. Love Is an Illness
8. White Sweater
9. Talk Dirty to Me
10. Fear to Fear
11. Double Shot of My Baby’s Love

This brilliantly vibrant, alluring flashback live recording opens on the funk-punk of Never Say Never’s B-side Guards and the drum-led, sneeringly rhythmic beauty of Nothing for Me and then brings us the pop-punk bounce of Confrontation, the arty punk of the previously unreleased Fine Line and the veritably ethereal grate of Charred Remains.

Along next is the reggae-pop ebb and flow of Drop Your Eyes and the complexly structured synth-pop-guitar gem Love Is an Illness, and they are in turn backed by the dutiful acceleration of mood and tempo within the dulcet White Sweater, the hooky new wave cool of Talk Dirty to Me (no, not the Poison hit!), rounding out on the low key punk vibe of Fear to Fear and closing on the loopy riffs and layered harmonies within their inventive cover of Double Shot of My Baby’s Love (by The Swingin’ Medallions, and also previously unreleased).

Live from Mabuhay Gardens: November 14, 1980, will be available on galaxy-blue colored vinyl and the digital single Charred Remains is available now.

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