The album contains live renditions of one non-album track; one from the first Pere Ubu album, The Modern Dance (incidentally a version of this track, ‘Street Waves’, also appears on 390° of Simulated Stereo); six songs from Dub Housing; one from New Picnic Time and four from The Art of Walking.

The first six songs were recorded at London's Electric Ballroom in November 1978 and feature Tom Herman on guitar.

Brett Milano of the Amherst Valley Advocate wrote in 1980 that Thompson 'has an intuitive sense of when to take off on spontaneous improvisation and when to hold everything together with some well-placed riffing.

Robert Lloyd wrote in the LA Weekly: The record is, as it would have to be, first-rate, being a document of a first-rate band in the pink of performance, and offers the usual blips and beeps, burbs and chirps, splatches and screeches and indecipherable mutterings, but more of them, and of demeanour more unruly.

'[5] However Grant Alden in the Seattle Rocket wrote that 'the sound is surprisingly impenetrable… I could live with the mud if the performances were as inspired as, say, John Cale’s Sabotage/Live, from the same period.