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The Band's Own Sheet

The band's production itinerary for the day survives, and the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology publishes it. It gives the date as Monday 3rd February and the city as London, and then the travel: a minibus from the hotel at noon and ninety miles to Southend. The venue line reads The Esplanade, Western Eslanade, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, with the street's name misspelled on the sheet. Get-in at four, soundcheck six to eight, doors at eight, the first act T.B.A. and the second blank, Pearl Jam at ten, and ninety miles back afterwards. The sheet also prints CAPACITY: 500. That is a statement about the room where the chronologies' figures are about the night: a room holding 500 is consistent with 500 present and equally consistent with 300.

Above this entry the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology prints a tour heading, First European Tour - 1992, and one sentence under it naming the countries the tour runs through and "the added concert in Switzerland." Five Horizons prints no tour heading and no preamble.

The Performance

The Pearl Jam Concert Chronology prints twelve songs and an encore of two. Five Horizons prints eleven and an encore of three, and the item it puts first in its encore is not a song but a chant. Where the chronology lists "(Outshined)" and "Leash" as two entries Five Horizons joins them with a slash, and where the chronology writes Improv Five Horizons writes jam. Those are the two documents' conventions for setting a list down, and they are not a disagreement about what was played.

The two notes are substantially one text, so what follows is attributed to one document at a time. After "State Of Love And Trust" someone asked for "Hunger Strike," and the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology prints the singer's reply: "Mr. Cornell, are you here? If Chris is here, we'll play it". A guitarist then started "Black" and was stopped, the same document says, and the band went into "Alive" instead; the singer found it "weird" that people in Europe knew the words. After "Jeremy" he asked for a little Soundgarden, a few "Outshined" riffs were played, and the jam after "Leash" was built on "Dirty Frank." Five Horizons alone puts a chant in its encore list, where the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology describes the same chant in its note, in the same place, before "Release," which both documents say was played as an encore for the first time. Each note closes with a remark he made before "Breath" about a television show the next day; one word of it is withheld here, at a named offset on each document's line, and the rest of both stands in the record.

The Next Step

Both documents put the next night in London and both carry a television performance and a concert; they are told together in Three Names for an Opening.