“So, how was the show in Hamburg?” wrote Fripp in his online diary “The quick answer, probably from all the group, is no idea. The sound onstage was so bad, the entire performance was a fight to hang in: we played to the bounce-back from the hall. George Glossop had no fun at the mixing desk either. He found the sound "brittle" & if he pushed anything a tad, it became overpowering...Pat struggled heroically with equipment malfunction of a major order. The stage set-up put me slightly off-kilter with Adrian, so our eye contact was harder. A battery in my West 48th. St. guitar died; an Eventide programme failed to ignite. Et cetera. Another night in the life of working players.”

Actually the gig wasn’t too bad and in some respects holds together better than the previous two nights in Copenhagen. FraKctured is surprisingly sprightly despite some of the problems mentioned by Fripp, though One Time suffers from a touch of drift here and there. The Improv tonight has a slo-mo brooding feel to in which Belew stretches and drapes a strangulated series of notes across the rumble and roll of the rhythm buddies to great effect. All told this one of the more cohesive improvs from the European tour though one suspects that the band’s misgivings about the gig prevented its inclusion on the Heavy ConstruKction set. LTIA 4 is one of the real highlights of the evening being both incisive and swaggeringly monstrous. Never an easy thing to do but, against the odds, Crimso pull it off.