David Cavanagh of Uncut said the concert "skirts the outermost musical avant-garde at times, and gets pretty sloppy at others," but noted that the "unexpected arrangements" of songs from Rock Bottom made the album "fascinating" on the whole. Douglas Wolk at Pitchfork gave the reissue a low score—only 4.4 out of 10. While Wolk called the band "fantastic," he said r]egrettably, the sound quality is indifferent, and the performances don't particularly improve on their studio equivalents. It's fun for fans, but shouldn't be anybody's first (or fifth) Wyatt album."
