Live Two was a CD by Coil

Coil (band)

Coil were an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as "Jhonn Balance"—and his partner Peter Christopherson, aka "Sleazy". The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, which he claimed to be...

 which documents their live performance on 15 September 2001 at DK Gorbunova in Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

, Russia

Russia

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. This CD was one of four releases in a series. Its counterparts are Live Four

Live Four

Live Four was a compilation CD of live Coil songs. This CD was the first of four releases in a series. Its counterparts are Live Three, Live Two and Live One. This album was later released as part of Coil's box set The Key To Joy Is Disobedience.The performance dates for "Bang Bang" and "An...

, Live Three

Live Three

Live Three was a CD by Coil which documents their live performance on 6 April 2002 at Teatro delle Celebrazioni in Bologna, Italy. This CD was one of four releases in a series. Its counterparts are Live Four, Live Two and Live One...

 and Live One. This album was later released as part of Coil's box set The Key To Joy Is Disobedience

The Key To Joy Is Disobedience

The Key To Joy Is Disobedience was a box set released by the group Coil. It contains the following releases: Live Four, Live Three, Live Two, Live One, ANS and Megalithomania!. The set is often incorrectly referred to as "Live Box". Upon its release, the set cost just under $200...

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"Something" was originally released in studio format on the album Musick To Play In The Dark Vol. 2

Musick To Play In The Dark Vol. 2

Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 2 is an album by Coil currently in its third pressing in CD format; it was also released in double 12" vinyl format....

. "Higher Beings Command" was originally released in studio form on Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil

Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil

Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil is a CD by Coil, released the same year as Queens of the Circulating Library. Like Queens, this album comes packaged in a pink c-shell case....

. "Amethyst Deceivers" was originally released on the single Autumn Equinox

Autumn Equinox: Amethyst Deceivers

Autumn Equinox: Amethyst Deceivers is part three of the four part Seasons collective created by Coil.This was first released on autumn equinox 1998 as a limited edition of 1000 7" on dark red vinyl and 40 copies on light blue vinyl. the cdep release was unlimited, but deleted on winter solstice...

. "What Kind Of Animal Are You?" has never been given a proper studio release, but was likely inspired by "For Us They Will" on Gold is the Metal. "Blood From The Air" was originally released in studio form on the album Horse Rotorvator

Horse Rotorvator

Horse Rotorvator is the second LP released by the British industrial group Coil. It was named one of the Top 100 Albums of the 1980s by Pitchfork Media who ranked it 73rd.-Editions:...

. "The Green Child" originally appeared on the album Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil

Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil

Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil is a CD by Coil, released the same year as Queens of the Circulating Library. Like Queens, this album comes packaged in a pink c-shell case....

. The finale, "Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil", is musically based on the latter half of the album of the same name, with its lyrics derived from a portion of "Tunnel of Goats".

An official VHS of this concert was released as Live In Moscow. This (along with an alternate video angle version) is also included on the 'Colour Sound Oblivion' 16DVD box set.

For this recording, Coil were: Jhon Balance, Peter Christopherson

Peter Christopherson

Peter Martin Christopherson, a.k.a. Sleazy was a musician, video director and designer, and former member of the influential British design agency Hipgnosis....

, Thighpaulsandra

Thighpaulsandra

Thighpaulsandra is a Welsh experimental musician and multi-instrumentalist known mostly for performing on synthesizers and keyboards. As Tim Lewis, he began his career working with Julian Cope. A collaboration with Cope in 1993 followed, as the experimental duo Queen Elizabeth...

 and Tom Edwards.

This album is currently available in CD format at Coil's official website, Thresholdhouse.com.

Track listing

1. "Something/Higher Beings Command" – 8:45
2. "Amethyst Deceivers
   Amethyst Deceivers
   Amethyst Deceivers is a song by Coil which appears on several of their releases. The name refers to a type of mushroom, Laccaria amethystea.*1998 Autumn Equinox: Amethyst Deceivers - Original release of the song....
   
   " – 6:32
3. "What Kind Of Animal Are You?" – 8:53
4. "Blood From The Air" – 5:35
5. "The Green Child" – 7:56
6. "Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil" – 17:11