In The Nursery repress debut-gig recording ‘Psalter Lane 25.06.81’ for 45th anniversary
In The Nursery repress “Psalter Lane 25.06.81,” the live recording of their 1981 debut gig, in a numbered run of 100 marking the band’s 45th anniversary.
In The Nursery have repressed “Psalter Lane 25.06.81,” the recording of their first live performance, in a numbered run of 100 copies to mark the 45th anniversary of that debut. The CD is open for pre-order on Bandcamp now and orders ship on June 25, 2026, exactly 45 years after the show.
The release documents In The Nursery’s debut gig on June 25, 1981 at Psalter Lane Art College in Sheffield, captured on cassette by the live sound engineer and handed to the band. The recording first appeared on CD in 2021. The new edition reissues that material with packaging tied to the original event.
‘Psalter Lane 25.06.81’: three numbered editions
In The Nursery have split the run of 100 into three versions, each individually numbered and hand-stamped, with the CD mounted on a cork stud onto 450gsm embossed card. Copies 1 to 17 include an original full-colour A4 screen print made by Klive Humberstone in 1982/83, signed and numbered. Copies 18 to 84 add a screen-printed postcard with rubber-stamp detail. Copies 85 to 100 are CD only. Every copy includes a double-sided insert reproducing the original concert poster and set list with historical notes, housed in an embossed glassine bag.
The disc collects the set from that night: “Aubade,” “Patter,” “Stone Souls,” “Mystery,” “Despotism,” “Youth Movement,” and “Extempore.”
About In The Nursery
In The Nursery is a Sheffield group formed in 1981 by twin brothers Klive and Nigel Humberstone, initially with guitarist Anthony Bennett, who appeared at the 1981 Psalter Lane debut and left the band in 1985. Their early work joined industrialised martial rhythms with classical and film-soundtrack writing. The band released the six-track “When Cherished Dreams Come True” and the “Witness (To a Scream)” single in 1983, followed by the “Temper” EP on Sweatbox in 1985 and the album “Twins.”
Over later decades the duo built a long catalogue and moved into composing for film and television, including new scores for silent cinema. Side-Line has tracked that work through releases such as the instrumental version of “1961”, the “score for Basil Copper’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher'”, and the recently opened archive for “Soundtrack to an Imaginary Film (demos 1987-88)”. The “Psalter Lane 25.06.81” repress returns to the point where that catalogue began.
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