This was the original Sex Pistols' final UK date - on Christmas Day - before the short US tour that lead to the band's break up in San Francisco just three weeks later. Sound quality is, at best, average, but there's a certain significance in hearing the last show on British soil until the reformation of the band in 1996. This is the evening show - in the afternoon the band had played a set for the children of local firemen and laid-off workers.
01 God Save the Queen
02 I Wanna Be Me
03 Seventeen
04 New York
05 EMI
06 Belsen Was a Gas
07 Bodies
08 Holidays in the Sun
09 No Feelings
10 Problems
11 Pretty Vacant
12 Anarchy in the UK
13 No Fun
14 Liar
15 Belsen Was a Gas
16 Submission
17 God Save the Queen
Source: Audience
Quality: Average to poor
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 53Mb (part 1), 52Mb (part 2)
Download part 1 here
Download part 2 here
Quality notes
Excellent:
Generally a soundboard or FM/digital radio recording
Very good:
The best quality audience recording, or a soundboard taken from a tape a few generations removed from the original
Good:
A very listenable audience recording
Average:
Typical audience recording on which there will be some audience intrusion etc
Poor:
Muffled, echoey, generally for the completist
The downloads are now password-protected (the password is: bigboxoftapes) and all include a text file with track-list and other information as in the posts.
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One comment
Comment by Adysaxman77 on 1 May 2012 at 09:50
I went to this gig as a 13 year old. I walked to Huddersfield from Batley with 70 pence in my pocket. I helped clean all the mess up after the party for the fireman's kids (the fire men were on strike) and for the one parent families on the dole. There were little kids coming out with God save the queen and Anarchy in the U.K badges all over them. The landlord said to one of the bouncers that we (myself and two friends) could stay for the show. Just in case, I slightly opened a fire escape door, to get back in if I was kicked out. Sure enough, this happened! But I got back in through the door that I'd opened and saw the show!