For the last show on this tour in Japan the setlist has been radically revamped. Opening with LTIA Pt IV requires everyone to be fully up to speed from the get-go with no opportunity to build to it, or limber up. Boy, does this version deliver - BIG TIME. With Adrian’s voice fully recovered, ProzaKc Blues returns after an absence of three shows. And again, the Crims mix it up, putting FraKctured in at the third item rather than its more usual place later in the set. This is an absolute scorcher, with all four members there in the moment and firing on all cylinders.

With the two big hitters dispatched so early in the set, there’s a risk that things go off the boil. Not so. After the stomping mayhem of Frying Pan, the first improvisation in the set goes into a spacey and pensive vibe, quite different to anything from previous dates.

With its bells and delicate percussion, the second improv section foreshadows The Power To Believe, with Ade’s reverbed guitar creating a space we’ve not quite heard in other gigs at this point in the set. After some ProjeKct-style vectoring they go into the precursor Virtuous Circle. The improvs here are far more integrated into the set list than on other gigs. Also notable, is the appearance for the first time on the tour of SSEDD.


Three days later, the Crims kicked off a new US tour in San Francisco.