A Secret Show at Sentrum Scene
Of the two notes, only Five Horizons' says Pearl Jam played the Isle of Calf festival on its second day. Both call the club show a great one, with the whole band glad to be in so small a room as the European tour got under way.
On Saturday, June 26, 1993, Pearl Jam played Sentrum Scene in Oslo, which both chronologies head by that name. The chronology's attendance line reads 1 600 and Five Horizons' 1,500, and neither chronology marks the show sold out. Both lists run the same sixteen entries in one order, from "Jeremy" to "State of Love and Trust," the chronology closing on an encore of five where Five Horizons prints one set line. Both notes call the show secret and say it was billed as an Isle of Calf after-party, its bill a surprise act and two bands from Norway.
The show
An After-Party in a Small Club
Both chronologies name the venue Sentrum Scene and the city Oslo, and Five Horizons brackets approx. 110m after its heading without stating what it measures. Of the two chronologies, only the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology prints a line of opening acts, naming The O-Men and Jack in the Box, and Five Horizons' entry has no support line. The two notes word the billing differently, the chronology's calling it the official after-party and Five Horizons' the after-party of the first day. Of the two notes, only Five Horizons' adds that Pearl Jam played on the second day of the two-day festival, without giving a date for either day. Just before this entry, the chronology heads its 1993 European tour, a summer of festival dates, headline concerts and supporting slots for Neil Young and U2, and says it began with two shows in Norway. Neither chronology's entry prints a capacity or a soundcheck.
The Performance
Both chronologies run "Jeremy," "Rearviewmirror," "Elderly Woman," "Even Flow," "Glorified G," "Daughter," "Garden," "Go," "Animal," "Alive" and "Porch," then further entries that end with "Leash," "Sonic Reducer," "Rockin' in the Free World" and "State of Love and Trust." The chronology sets those further entries on an encore line, where Five Horizons keeps all sixteen on one set line with no encore mark. The chronology adds an ellipsis to "Elderly Woman," and both join a parenthesised addition to "Daughter" with a slash, which the chronology punctuates with full stops and Five Horizons does not. Both notes judge it a great show and say the whole band seemed very pleased to be playing a small club as the European tour began.
The Next Step
Spokane, nine nights before, is told in Over Security and Back Again; neither chronology prints a heading for June 18 to 25. Both chronologies put the next show the following night, June 27, at Kalvøya, which Five Horizons spells Kalvoya; it is told in A Fun Show on the Isle of Calf.
Recording & sound
What the Record Preserves
Seven objects hang with the night's entry on the chronology's page: three untitled PDFs whose file names read rumors, preview and review, each with an untitled image named the same, and an image whose markup title reads Ticket before a credit. The Sentrum Scene night comes down to one club both chronologies name alike, two attendances, two opening acts that of the two chronologies only the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology names, sixteen entries in one order divided two ways, notes agreeing on a secret after-party and a great show, and seven objects under the date.
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Other accounts
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Sources & thanks (3)
- Pearl Jam Concert Chronology — 1993 page
- Five Horizons — Concert chronology 1993, entries for 06/17/93, 06/26/93 and 06/27/93
- Pearl Jam Concert Chronology — 1993 page, the entry for the date