A good recording, from an unknown source, but probably audience. This is the third earliest known live recording of the band (the earlier gigs are St Albans on 28th January 1976 and the Nashville Rooms on 3rd April).

01 Did You no Wrong
02 No Lip
03 Seventeen
04 Stepping Stone
05 No Feelings
06 New York
07 No Fun
08 Submission
09 Substitute
10 Problems
11 Satellite
12 Pretty Vacant

Source: Probable Audience
Quality: Good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 58Mb

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Good sounding audience recording of the Pistols' on their final UK tour. There were just two shows after this (Cromer on the 24th and Huddersfield on Christmas Day - see earlier posts for these shows) Given the primitive cassette recorder with which this would have been taped (and the number of generations of tape it must have been through over the years), it's really very listenable, and a much better recording than the one of the same show which appeared on the "Where Were You in 77?" bootleg LP.

01 God Save the Queen
02 I Wanna be Me
03 Seventeen
04 New York
05 EMI
06 Bodies
07 Belsen Was a Gas
08 Holidays in the Sun
09 No Feelings
10 Problems
11 Pretty Vacant
12 Anarchy in the UK
13 No Fun
14 Submission
15 Liar

Source: Audience
Quality: Good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 79Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast, made a few months after the release of the band's second album "The First Born is Dead" and including songs from that and debut release "From Her to Eternity." This set also includes a cover of Screaming Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You" and "Sad Dark Eyes," a song by mid-60s Australian band The Loved Ones which was only played by the Bad Seeds during 1985, though Cave had performed it a few years before while in The Birthday Party.

01 Well of Misery
02 Sad Dark Eyes
03 Blind Lemon Jefferson
04 Wanted Man
05 Little Girl Tree
06 Knockin' on Joe
07 Train Long Suffering
08 St Huck
09 I Put a Spell on You

Source: FM radio broacast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 82Mb

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Compilation of TV/radio broadcasts of The Jam, the centrepiece of which is the band's 1980 appearance at the Pink pop Festival at Geleen in Holland. The sound quality is, generally, excellent.

Electric Circus, London, Aug 1977
01 In The City
02 Bricks & Mortar

“Something Else” TV show, Manchester, 1979
03 Eton Rifles
04 When You’re Young

Pink Pop Festival, Geleen, Holland, 26.5.1980
05 Thick as Thieves
06 Saturday’s Kids
07 To be Someone
08 Burning Sky
09 Going Underground
10 Mr Clean
11 Private Hell
12 Smithers-Jones
13 Little Boy Soldiers
14 But I’m Different Now
15 Eton Rifles
16 Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
17 The Modern World
18 A Bomb in Wardour Street
19 All Mod Cons
20 David Watts

Friday Night Live, 1980
21 Start
22 Private Hell

Tomorrow Show, New York, 27.5.1981
23 Pretty Green
24 Funeral Pyre

Source: Radio/TV broadcasts
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 99Mb

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Excellent soundboard recording of The Sisters of Mercy touring their debut album "First and Last and Always." The original line-up was at the peak of its success at this point - later that year the group would splinter.

01 First and Last and Always
02 Body And Soul
03 Marian
04 No Time to Cry
05 Walk Away
06 Possession
07 Emma
08 Amphetamine Logic
09 A Rock and a Hard Place
10 Floorshow
11 Alice
12 Fix
13 Knocking On Heaven’s Door
14 Ghost-Rider/Louie-Louie

Source: Soundboard
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 96Mb

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Superb digital radio broadcast. This show was recorded while the band were promoting their self-titled debut album.

01 (Dawning of a) New Era
02 Do the Dog
03 Rat Race
04 Blank Expression
05 Rude Boys out of Jail
06 Concrete Jungle
07 Too Much Too Young
08 Guns of Navarone
09 Nite Club
10 Gangsters
11 Skinhead Moonstomp

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 44Mb

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Superb digital radio broadcast. the precise date is unknown, but it would appear to be before the release of second album "Life on the Line" as most of the songs here are from the band's debut "Teenage Depression."

01 Teenage Depression
02 Keep On Keeping On
03 I Might be Lying
04 Been So Long
05 Horseplay
06 Hard Driving Man
07 On The Run
08 Still Life

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 37Mb

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Excellent digital radio broadcast. The Good, the Bad & the Queen, made up of Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon, Simon Tong and Tony Allen, formed in 2006, and this performance is highlights of their BBC Electric Proms show at the Roundhouse in London, during which they performed the whole of their debut album, which would be released in January 2007.

01 History Song
02 Herculean
03 A Soldier's Tale
04 Green Fields
05 Northen Whale
06 Three Changes
07 Eighties Life

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 35Mb

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Superb digital radio broadcast (come on, BBC, where's the whole show?). Three songs from the band's 1977 debut album "Rattus Norvegicus" and the non-album single "Straighten Out."

01 London Lady
02 Peaches
03 Sometimes
04 Straighten Out

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 18Mb

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Superb digital radio broadcast, made around the time of Kasabian's debut album, from which all but one of these seven songs are taken. The odd one out is "Fifty Five", though a version was released as the B-side of single "Club Foot."

01 Cutt Off
02 Reason Is Treason
03 Running Battle
04 Fifty Five
05 Test Transmision
06 Ovary Stripe
07 Club Foot

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 40Mb

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Superb digital radio broadcast made at the BBC's Paris Theatre in Lower Regent Street. This may well have been during AC/DC's first visit to the UK - but they were by this time already an incredibly tight band. DJ Johnny Walker introduces the band and the songs, and I have edited his speech into separate tracks in case you don't want to hear them.

01 Live Wire
02 Johnny Walker
03 It's A Long Way To The Top If You Want To Rock n Roll
04 Johnny Walker
05 Soul Stripper
06 Johnny Walker
07 High Voltage
08 Johnny Walker
09 Baby Please Don't Go

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 42Mb

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Excellent digital radio broadcast. The precise date of this show at the BBC's Paris Theatre in Lower Regent Street, London is unknown, but pre-dates the band's eponymous debut album.

01 The Wait
02 Stop Your Sobbing
03 Kid
04 Cuban Slide
05 Brass in Pocket
06 Tattooed Love Boys
07 Mystery Achievement

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 38Mb

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Superb FM radio broadcast. Robert Plant was touring his then-current album "Mighty ReArranger" at the time and this set features songs from that as well as Led Zeppelin classics. Robert Plant's new album "Band of Joy" has just been released.

01 Another Tribe
02 Shine it all Around
03 Black Dog
04 Freedom Fries
05 Tin Pan Valley
06 Gallows Pole
07 Mighty ReArranger
08 The Enchanter
09 Whole Lotta Love

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 128kbps mp3
File size: 51Mb

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Excellent digital radio broadcast. When I originally posted four songs from this show back in April, I wondered whether there was a longer version lurking in the Beeb's vaults. And the BBC dutifully obliged recently by airing this ten-song version.

01 Back In My Home Town
02 Tonight
03 Can I Be Your Hero
04 Semaphore Signals
05 Pop Song
06 Broken Doll
07 Hit And Miss Judy
08 It'll Soon Be The Weekend
09 Take The Cash
10 I Need A Situation

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 44Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast, made before an invited audience of just 100 people at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios in London, and hosted by Jonathan Ross this show marked the release of Bowie's then-new album "Heathen" and features songs from that as well as old classics, and the never-before performed "Bewlay Brothers."

01 Sunday
02 Look Back in Anger
03 Cactus
04 Survive
05 5.15 The Angels Have Gone
06 Alabama Song
07 Everyone Says 'Hi'
08 Rebel Rebel
09 Bewlay Brothers
10 Heathen (The Rays)

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 75Mb

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Excellent recording (probably from a radio broadcast) of The Jam touring final album "The Gift" in 1982.

01 Move On Up/In the Crowd
02 Pretty Green
03 Ghosts
04 Great Depression
05 Start
06 Town Called Malice
07 Precious/War
08 Private Hell
09 David Watts
10 Poor Old Alfie/Fever
11 Funeral Pyre
12 Just Who is the Five O'Clock Hero

Source: Probable radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 57Mb

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Excellent digital radio broadcast, originally recorded in 1980 for the BBC's Rock Goes To College. Secret Affair were leading lights in the late-70s Mod revival scene. The band's first gig was supporting The Jam at Reading University on 16th February 1979 - the Jam's set from that gig is in an earlier post. Their biggest hit was debut single "Time for Action" which reached number 13 in the UK charts in September 1979. Second single "Let Your Heart Dance" fared less well, falling just short of the top 30. The latter is in this set, sadly, the former is not. Three more hit singles followed before the band called it a day in 1982 after three albums. There have been two reformations since the millennium.

01 Glory Boys
02 Road Runner
03 Going to a Go-Go
04 Shake and Shout
05 When the Show is Over
06 Don't Look Down
07 New Dance
08 Let Your Heart Dance

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 37Mb

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Good quality recording, possibly from a soundboard source, but certainly quite a few generations removed from the original recording.

01 Modern World
02 Sounds From the Street
03 Away From the Numbers
04 All Mod Cons
05 To Be Someone
06 It's Too Bad
07 Mr Clean
08 Billy Hunt
09 In The Street Today
10 Standards
11 Tonight at Noon
12 Down it the Tube Station at Midnight
13 News of the World
14 Weekend
15 Bricks and Mortar
16 Batman Theme
17 The Place I Love
18 David Watts
19 Heatwave
20 'A' Bomb In Wardour Street

Source: Possible soundboard
Quality: Good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 81Mb

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Very good quality FM radio broadcast (though there are some short bursts of static on three songs) made while the ex-Echo and the Bunnymen singer was touring his first solo album "Candleland" which had been released in September 1989. Four of the songs in this show are from that album, the other being the Bunnymen classic "The Killing Moon."

01 The Flickering Wall
02 The Killing Moon
03 Faith and Healing
04 Candleland
05 Proud to Fall

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 32Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast, part of Radio 1's "Sound City" season in Sheffield in 1993. Living Colour were touring third album "Stain" at the time, and five of the songs here are from that release. The band split in 1995, reformed in 2000 and have released two further albums.

01 Leave it Alone
02 Auslander
03 Love Rears Up its Ugly Head
04 Cult of Personality
05 Nothingness
06 Never Satisfied
07 Bi

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 42Mb

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Superb digital radio broadcast. Suede were third on the bill on the opening day of the festival, playing before David Gray and headliners REM. and this recording includes songs from all five of their albums.

01 The Wild Ones
02 Film Star
03 Everything Will Flow
04 Lost in TV
05 So Young
06 Can't get Enough
07 She's in Fashion

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 42Mb

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Superb digital radio broadcast of a gig played during a break from recording their debut album, which was released in May 1978. This show would appear to have taken place some time around February 1978 as Tom makes reference to "Don't Take No for an Answer" being "from our current EP" which was the four-track "Rising Free EP," which was released in February 1978.

01 2-4-6-8 Motorway
02 Grey Cortina
03 We Ain't Gonna Take it
04 Martin
05 Up Against The Wall
06 Don't Take No for an Answer
07 I'm Waiting for my Man

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192 kbps mp3
File size: 34Mb

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Excellent digital radio broadcast, recorded at The Boat House, Nottingham in 2002 shortly after the release of the band's first album. Two of the tracks ("Little Bruise" and "MF From Hell") are salvaged from my corrupted CD-R as they weren't included in the digital broadcast. There's a slight volume jump between the latter and "In Love" but I thought it better to put the songs in the correct position in the running order.

01 Little Bruise
02 Lady
03 Supergyration
04 Harmonic Generator
05 What Would I Know
06 MF From Hell
07 In Love
08 Fink for the Man
09 Sittin' Pretty
10 At Your Touch
11 Little Sister
12 Freeze Sucker
13 Goodnight Ladies & Gentleman

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 80Mb

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Excellent recording compiled from digital and FM sources (the first four tracks are digital radio-sourced, the other three from an FM source). The band were promoting the "A Thousand Leaves" album at the time and all the songs here are from that release, except the last track which is an improvisation by Spiritualised and Sonic Youth.

01 Karen Koltrane
02 Wildflower Soul
03 Sunday
04 Heather Angel
05 French Tickler
06 Hits of Sunshine (for Allen Ginsberg)
07 Improvisation (Spiritualised and Sonic Youth)

Source: Digital/FM radio broadcasts
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 74Mb

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Two excellent recordings from All About Eve in 1988. The first is an FM radio broadcast of the band playing London's Hammersmith Odeon, while the second is a BBC session, recorded, oddly, for the Friday Night Rock Show. I don't know the precise details, as the session isn't mentioned in Ken garner's excellent book "In Session Tonight." "The Garden of Jane Delawney" is a cover of a 1970 song by British folk-rock band Trees.

01 The Candy Tree
02 Wild Hearted Woman
03 Never Promise Anyone Forever
04 Flowers in our Hair
05 Martha's Harbour
06 Every Angel
07 In the Clouds
08 In the Meadow

BBC Friday Night Rock Show Session, October 1988
01 Gold and Silver
02 Tuesday's Child
03 The Garden of Jane Delawney
04 Wild Flowers

Source: FM/digital radio broadcasts
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 57Mb

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Very good quality demo recordings of early All About Eve material. Two of 1985 tracks never saw the light of day as properly-recorded songs, while the first 'Another Door' eventually appeared as a b-side to 'Martha's Harbour.' The 1986 recordings are mostly songs which would appear over the next couple of years as singles, b-sides and on the band's debut album. Also included is that band's only BBC Radio 1 session, made for the Janice Long show in 1987 in the BBC's Maida Vale Studio Number 4.

1985 demos
01 Another Door
02 Never Come Back From heaven
03 There is no Reason

1986 demos
01 Flowers in Our Hair
02 In the Meadow
03 Appletree Man
04 Every Angel
05 Our Summer
06 Lady Moonlight
07 Shelter From the Rain
08 Like Emily
09 Never Promise Anyone Forever
10 Paradise
11 Leave Now

BBC Radio 1 Janice Long radio session
Recorded 5th August 1987, broadcast 28th August 1987
01 Wild Hearted Woman
02 Every Angel
03 Martha's Harbour
04 In the Meadow

Source: Soundboard/FM radio
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 93Mb

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Very good FM radio broadcast. The band were promoting their self-titled debut album, and all the songs in this pretty ferocious performance are from that release.

01 Precious
02 Kid
03 Talk of the Town
04 Mystery Achievement
05 Brass in Pocket
06 Stop Your Sobbing
07 The Wait
08 Tattooed Love Boys
09 Up the neck

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 45Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast. The band were touring second album, 1990's 'Time's Up,' and this show contains songs from that and 1988's debut 'Vivid.'

01 Time's Up
02 New Jack theme
03 Desperate people
04 Type
05 Middle Man
06 Love Rears Up its Ugly Head
07 Solace of You
08 Cult of Personality

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 51Mb

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Excellent digital radio broadcast of Elastica headling the second stage (the Radio 1 Evening Session stage) on the Friday night of the 1999 Reading Festival. The following year, the band would release their second and final album 'the Menace' and this show is a mix of songs from that and 1995's self-titled debut.

01 Operate
02 Hold Me Now
03 2:1
04 Da Da Da
05 Love Like Ours
06 KB
07 Stutter
08 Waking Up
09 Human
10 Connection

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 39Mb

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Good quality audience recording. The band were touring their self-titled debut album at this point and the set-list is almost entirely comprised of songs from that release.

01 Intro
02 Every Angel
03 Candy Tree
04 Never Promise Anyone Forever
05 In the Clouds
06 Flowers in Our Hair
07 Shelter From the Rain
08 Wild Hearted Woman
09 This Hour
10 What Kind of Fool
11 In the Meadow
12 Paradise
13 Our Summer
14 Every Angel

Source: Audience
Quality: Good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 75Mb

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Very good audience recording (a little thin on bass) of the last night of the Medic's Italian tour in 1986. They were yet to score their big hit ('Spirit in the Sky') and this show features many of the songs that were to comprise debut album 'Laughing at the Pieces' along with some of their earlier indie classics as well as the obligatory covers.

01 Smallness of the Mustard Pot
02 Lucky Lord Jim
03 Goin' Around
04 Aunty Evil's Dormitory
05 Come on Call Me
06 Kettle on a Long Chain
07 Barbara Can't Dance
08 The Miracle of the Age
09 No One Loves You When You've Got No Shoes
10 Happy But Twisted
11 Secrets of a Baby's Mind
12 Fried Egg Bad Monday
13 Good Golly Miss Molly
14 Paranoid

Source: Audience
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 70Mb

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Excellent quality digital radio broadcast. Neds were playing on the bill of a one-day event in London's Finsbury Park, which also featured The Cult, Pearl Jam and L7. This show includes songs from 1991's debut album "God Fodder" and second album "Are You Normal?" which would be released in the autumn of 1992.

01 Kill Your Television
02 Legoland
03 Not Sleeping Around
04 Selfish
05 Happy
06 Tantrum
07 Trust
08 Terminally Groovy
09 Throwing Things
10 Until You Find Out

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 45Mb

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FM radio broadcast. QOTSA were second on the bill on the Friday night, playing before headliners Rage Against the Machine.

01 Go With the Flow
02 Misfit Love
03 In My Head
04 Little Sister
05 No One Knows
06 A Song for the Dead

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 40Mb

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Originally an FM radio broadcast, this has been remastered from a vinyl bootleg. I've reduced the high-end hiss and upped the bass slightly to restore the levels, as well as balancing the volume of the left and right channels. This is a great document of the (fairly) early days of the band.

01 I'm so Bored With the USA
02 Hate and War
03 48 Hours
04 Deny
05 Police and Theives
06 Cheat
07 Capital Radio
08 What's my Name?
09 Protex Blue
10 Remote Control
11 Garageland
12 1977

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 49Mb

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Excellent digital radio broadcast. The Charlatans were touring their 7th album "Wonderland" and six of the songs in this set are from that release, the others all being singles from throughout the band's career. I don't know the exact date of this gig.

01 Love is the Key
02 Judas
03 Tellin' Stories
04 I Just Can't get Over Losing You
05 Man Needs to be Told
06 One to Another
07 The Only One I Know
08 Impossible
09 Wake Up
10 North Country Boy
11 You're so Pretty, We're so Pretty
12 Weirdo
13 How High

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 78Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast. Happy Mondays were at the peak of their popularity at this point, following the huge success of 3rd album "Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches" and this gig was part of The Great British Music Weekend.

01 Donovan
02 Step On
03 Kinky Afro
04 Loose Fit
05 Dennis and Lois
06 WFL

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 47Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast. There's a little radio static in a couple of places, but it only lasts for a few seconds. This catches the Happy Mondays midway between 2nd album "Bummed" and 3rd album "Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches" just as the 'Madchester' scene was going national.

01 Rave On
02 Tart Tart
03 Performance
04 Hallelujah
05 Clap Your Hands
06 Kuff Dam
07 WFL (Wrote For Luck)

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 45Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast of Iggy & the Stooges headlining the second stage on the Saturday night. Also includes two songs played on Later with Jonathan Ross - I think that was either the day before their Glastonbury appearance or the week before that.

Glastonbury Festival:
01 1969
02 I Wanna be Your Dog
03 TV Eye
04 My Idea of Fun
05 Dirt
06 Real Cool Time
07 No Fun
08 1970
09 The Mine Room
10 Fun House
11 Skull Ring

Later with Jonathan Ross:
12 I Wanna be Your Dog
13 Loose

Source: FM radio/TV broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 85Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast, made midway between the release of Joe's first two albums "Look Sharp" and "I'm the Man." The set-list is naturally more biased towards the first album and includes three cover version: the old standard "Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries," Toots and the Maytel's "Pressure Drop" (which was also covered around this time by The Clash as the b-side of "English Civil War") and Fats Domino's "Ain't That a Shame."

01 One More Time
02 Pretty Girls
03 Look Sharp!
04 Friday
05 Sunday papers
06 Baby Stick Around
07 Is She Really Going Out With Him?
08 Fools in Love
09 Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries
10 Kinda Kute
11 Happy Loving Couples
12 I'm the Man
13 Throw it Away
14 Got the Time
15 Pressure Drop
16 Ain't That a Shame

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbp2 mp3
File size: 83Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast. Joe and his band were touring following the release of 3rd album "Beat Crazy" and, along with songs from that release, this show includes earlier classics.

01 I'm the Man
02 Biology
03 Beat Crazy
04 Look Sharp
05 Crime Don't Pay
06 Pretty Boys
07 On Your Radio
08 Friday
09 Fit
10 Is She Really Going Out With Him?
11 Don't Wanna be Like That
12 Got the Time

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 77Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast. Elvis Costello and the Attractions were touring just prior to the release of 2nd album "This Year's Model" and this show includes songs from that as well as 1977's debut "My Aim is True."

01 Mystery Dance
02 Waiting for the End of the World
03 Night Rally
04 No Action
05 Less Than Zero
06 The Beat
07 (I Don't Want to go to) Chelsea
08 This Year's Girl
09 Little Triggers
10 Radio Radio
11 You Belong to Me
12 Lipstick Vogue
13 Watching the Detectives
14 Pump it Up

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 73Mb

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Recorded as part of BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend, The Zutons were second on the bill on the "In New Music We Trust" stage, playing before The Racontuers. The Zutons were about to release their third album "You Can do Anything" and this set includes four songs from that album.

01 Why Wont You Give Me Your love?
02 Don't Ever Think too Much
03 Harder and Harder
04 Valerie
05 What's Your Problem?
06 Pressure Point
07 Zuton Fever
08 You Will You Won't
09 Give Me a Reason
10 Always Right Behind You

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 62Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast of highlights of Nick Cave's Big Day Out set in 1996. Warren Ellis from The Dirty Three plays on 'Mercy' and Kylie Minogue guests on 'Where the Wild Roses Grow.'

01 Do You Love Me?
02 Mercy
03 Loverman
04 Red Right Hand
05 Where the Wild Roses Grow
06 The Weeping Song

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 40Mb

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Excellent digital radio broadcast. Soulfly were touring fifth album "Dark Ages" at the time, and this set includes songs from that as well as earlier numbers and a version of Sepultura's "Refuse/Resist." Soulfly's seventh album "Omen" has just been released.

01 The Prophecy
02 Seek 'n' Strike
03 Living Sacrifice
04 Jump Da Fuck Up
05 Fire
06 Soulfly V
07 Refuse/Resist
08 Execution Style
09 Frontlines
10 Back to the Primitive
11 The Song Remains Insane
12 Bleed
13 Tree of pain
14 Tribe
15 I and I
16 Eye for an Eye

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 74Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast. Squeeze were touring seventh album "Babylon And On," and alongside several tracks from that are an abundance of classics. "Such a Night " is a Doctor John cover.

01 Pulling Mussels (From a Shell)
02 The Prisoner
03 Hourglass
04 853-5937
05 Last Time Forever
06 Up the Junction
07 Footprints
08 Striking Matches
09 Take Me, I'm Yours
10 Is That Love?
11 Such a Night
12 Trust Me to Open My Mouth
13 Cool For Cats
14 Black Coffee in Bed
15 Another Nail in My Heart
16 Labelled With Love

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 80Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast. The band were touring their 4th album proper "Grand Prix" at this point.

01 Intro
02 About You
03 Star Sign
04 What You do to Me
05 Escher
06 Don't Look Back
07 The Cabbage
08 Radio
09 Mellow Doubt
10 Verisimilitude
11 Neil Jung
12 Sparky's Dream
13 The Concept (Satan)

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 59Mb

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Decent audience recording - there are some voices to be heard (mostly between songs) and a couple of drop-outs where it appears the recorder got knocked (most noticeably during The Storm), but mostly this is pretty good. The band were touring their debut LP "The Crossing" in 1983 and the Reading Festival was probably the biggest show they'd played up to that point. I remember they went down very well, particularly given the partisan nature of the Reading audience back then, which was mostly used to metal bands playing, though Big Country were second on the bill on the slightly more varied Friday line-up, following reggae band Steel Pulse (who were bottled off during their first number by the biker element in the crowd) and preceding headliners The Stranglers. Big Country were themselves subjected to a barrage of piss-filled bottles early on - they stop playing during "Close Action" and Stuart Adamson berates the bottle-throwers.

01 Harvest Home
02 A Thousand Stars
03 Close Action
04 Balcony
05 Lost patrol
06 Porrohman
07 The Storm
08 In a Big Country
09 Chance
10 Angle Park
11 Fields of Fire

Source: Audience
Quality: Good (mostly)
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 77Mb

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Superb digital radio broadcast comprising a virtual (for the time) greatest hits set.

01 Charlotte Sometimes
02 The Walk
03 Let's Go to Bed
04 Baby Screams
05 Primary
06 Inbetween Days
07 Close to Me
08 Boys Don't Cry

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 36Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast. Midway between eighth album "Disintegration and ninth release "Wish." Three of the songs are from "Disintegration," while "Never Enough" appeared on 1990's "Mixed Up" remix album. This show was part of The Great British Music Festival.

01 Pictures of You
02 Fascination Street
03 Just Like Heaven
04 Lullaby
05 The Walk
06 Let's Go to Bed
08 Why Can't I be You?
08 Inbetween Days
09 A Forest
10 Never Enough

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 67Mb

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Superb FM radio broadcast. The band were touring second album "Steeltown" and about to release their third "The Seer" at this point.

01 Wonderland
02 Fields of Fire
03 Where the Rose is Sown
04 Raindance
05 Remembrance Day
06 Just a Shadow
07 Steeltown
08 Inwards
09 Harvest Home
10 The Storm
11 In a Big Country

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 78Mb

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Good quality FM broadcast. There's a fair amount of hiss, but everything's audible.

01 Jigsaw Feeling
02 Playground Twist
03 Staircase Mystery
04 Placebo Effect
05 Regal Zone
06 Switch
07 Hong Kong Garden
08 Suburban Relapse
09 Overground
10 Icon

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 55Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast made just before the band came to the UK to tour as support to The Damned. Slightly bass-heavy, but the band were, as ever, in fine form.

01 She's wicked
02 1-2-5
03 The witch
04 Gotta Get Some
05 Journey to Tyme
06 Pretty Quick
07 Love at Psychedelic Velocity
08 1523 Blair
09 Bad Little Woman
10 Psychotic Reaction

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 40Mb

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The self-styled 'Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World' caught live on Swedish radio while touring their 2000 album "The Evil Powers of Rock and Roll." This show pretty much constitutes a 'greatest hits' set for the band at this point in their career.

01 Intro
02 The Evil Powers of Rock and Roll
03 Santa Rita High
04 Good Luck
05 Mudhead
06 Beat to Shit
07 I Want the Drugs
08 Greens
09 Cocaine
10 Kick Ass Life
11 Goin' Back to Tuscon
12 Gold Top
13 Poor
14 Deadmeat
15 Creepy Jackalope Eye
16 She's My Bitch
17 Bad Bad Bad
18 Gone Gamblin'
19 Cowboy Song
20 Born With a Tail

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 78Mb

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Superb recording made at the BBC's Paris Theatre in Lower Regent Street, London, which captures Bob Marley and the Wailers on the cusp of global fame. This show was probably the band's first major national radio exposure in the UK. In April 1973 the band had released their first major label album "Catch a Fire" from which eight of these songs are taken. The remaining two would appear on the next album "Burnin'" which was released in October 1973 I've split the announcer's between-song speech (in which he explains the origins of the songs and Rastafarianism as well as introducing the band) into separate tracks so these can be omitted if you want nothing but the music on a play-list.

01 Rastaman Chant
02 Talk
03 Slave Driver
04 Talk
05 Stop the Train
06 Talk
07 No More Trouble
08 Talk
09 400 Years
10 Talk
11 Midnight Raver
12 Talk
13 Stir it Up
14 Talk
15 Concrete Jungle
16 Talk
17 Get Up, Stand Up
18 Talk
19 Kinky Reggae

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 65Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast from when the band were touring seventh album 'Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me' from which seven of these tracks are taken.

01 Torture
02 A Japanese Dream
03 Catch
04 If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
05 Like Cockatoos
06 The Walk
07 Inbetween Days
08 The Perfect Girl
09 The Snake Pit
10 A Forest
11 Charlotte Sometimes
12 Why Can't I be You?

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 77Mb

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Very good FM radio recording. This gig was recorded just a month after the release of the band's sixth album 'The Head on the Door' which pushed The Cure to (probably) the peak of their popularity. Eight of that album's songs are performed live here, along with earlier classics.

01 The Baby Screams
02 Play for Today
03 A Night Like This
04 Primary
05 The Kyoto Song
06 The Blood
07 The Hanging Garden
08 Cold
09 Inbetween Days
10 Let's go to Bed
11 The Walk
12 Push
13 Screw
14 Sinking
15 Charlotte Sometimes

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 81Mb

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Good quality FM radio broadcast. The Police were really hitting the big time at this point, following the release of second album 'Reggatta de Blanc' and their first number one single 'Message in a Bottle' and this captures them in a homecoming (for Sting at least) show in Newcastle. The sound is a little muddy here and there, but it is a very old tape...

01 Next to You
02 So Lonely
03 Walking on the Moon
04 Hole in My Life
05 Truth Hits Everybody
06 Bring on the Night
07 Driven to Tears
08 The Bed's Too Big Without You
09 Message in a Bottle
10 Roxanne
11 Can't Stand Losing You

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Good to very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 77Mb

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Superb FM radio broadcast. Although fairly readily-available, I've not seen any versions which contain 'Emerald.' This recording, which was made when the show was re-broadcast in the late 1980s, does include 'Emerald.' The band were touring just prior to the release of the 'Renegade' album.

01 Angel of Death
02 Renegade
03 Hollywood (Down on Your Luck)
04 Don't Believe a Word
05 Pressure Will Blow
06 Killer on the Loose
07 The Boys are Back in Town
08 Are You Ready?
09 Baby Drives Me Crazy
10 Emerald

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 87Mb

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Superb recording of Thin Lizzy live in Glasgow on the Thunder and Lightning tour in 1983.

01 Waiting for an Alibi
02 Jailbreak
03 Angel of Death
04 Are You Ready?
05 Holy War
06 The Sun Goes Down
07 Cowboy Song
08 The Boys are Back in Town
09 Emerald
10 Rosalie
11 Whisky in the Jar
12 Dancing in the Moonlight

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 70Mb

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Superb broadcast-quality recording of The Stranglers touring the 'Feline' album in Germany.

01 Aural Sculpture Manifesto
02 Nuclear Device/Toiler on the Sea
03 It's a Small World/Just Like Nothing on Earth
04 Ships That Pass in the Night
05 No More Heroes
06 Who Wants the World?
07 Baroque Bordello
08 Golden Brown
09 Princess of the Streets
10 Midnight Summer Dream/The European Female
11 Tramp
12 The Raven
13 Duchess

Source: TV broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 128kbps mp3
File size: 66Mb

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Superb digital radio broadcast of Thin Lizzy on the first date of their farewell UK tour.

01 Jailbreak
02 This is the One
03 Cold Sweat
04 The Sun Goes Down
05 Holy War
06 The Boys are Back in Town
07 Rosalie
08 Baby Please Don't Go
09 Still in Love With You
10 Dancing in the Moonlight

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 74Mb

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Superb digital radio broadcast (like the brief Wreckless Eric show posted earlier, there must be more of this in the vaults). Oddly, none of this show appeared on the band's triple-CD set 'Live at the BBC' a few years back. I don't know the precise date of this show.

01 In the City
02 Heatwave
03 This is the Modern World
04 In the Midnight Hour
05 All Around the World

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 15Mb

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Excellent digital radio broadcast. While recordings of the original 1979 FM broadcast have been doing the rounds for years, this is a considerably better version, with everything crystal-clear. Ian was at the pinnacle of his success at this point and this show is comprised of songs from the classic 'New Boots and Panties' and second album 'Do it Yourself.'

01 Clever Trevor
02 Inbetweenies
03 Don't Ask Me
04 Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3
05 Sink My Boats
06 Waiting for Your Taxi
07 This is What We Find
08 Mischief
09 What a Waste!
10 Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
11 Sweet Gene Vincent

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 69Mb

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Superb digital radio broadcast, exact date unknown, and sadly only four songs long, but a representative cross-section from their career. 1996 effectively marked the end of the band following drummer Chris Acland's tragic suicide, though they didn't officially disband until 1998.

01 Single Girl
02 Lovelife
03 De-Luxe
04 Light From a Dead Star

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 17Mb

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Excellent digital radio broadcast, capturing the Icicle Works shortly before the release of their second album 'The Small Price of a Bicycle.' '(Let's go) Down to the River' was the b-side of 'When it all Comes Down.' Exact date unknown.

01 In the Cauldron of Love
02 (Let's go) Down to the River
03 When it all Comes Down
04 Who Do You Want for Your Love?
05 All the Daughters (of her Father's House)
06 Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 33Mb

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Excellent recording of the Queens touring second album 'Rated R' in Scandinavia.

01 Feel Good Hit of the Summer
02 Regular John
03 Quick and to the Pointless
04 Monsters in the Parasol
05 Ode to Clarissa
06 The Bronze
07 Infinity
08 Avon
09 If Only
10 Walkin' on the Sidewalks
11 Tension Head
12 The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
13 You Can't Quit Me, Baby
14 Technical Break
15 How to Handle a Rope
16 Mexicola

Source: Probable soundboard
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 47Mb (part 1), 54Mb (part 2)

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Excellent digital radio broadcast. Big Country were about to release their debut album 'The Crossing' and were undertaking a 34-date UK tour - their first as headliners. The band are in superb form and eight of the songs in this show are from 'The Crossing' - 'Balcony' was a B-side of debut single 'Harvest Home,' and 'Angle Park' was a B-Side of 2nd single 'Fields of Fire.'

01 Harvest Home
02 Close Action
03 Balcony
04 Lost Patrol
05 Porrohman
06 The Storm
07 In a Big Country
08 Chance
09 Angle Park
10 Fields Of Fire

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 67Mb

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Very good FM radio broadcast. Part of a BBC Radio 1 'Sound City' week, this show was just six weeks before the release of the band's debut album 'Ferment,' which is shortly to be re-issued with some bonus tracks.

01 She's My Friend
02 Balloon
03 Flower to Hide
04 Black Metallic
05 I Want to Touch You

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 35Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast. Catherine Wheel had just signed to Fontana following two indie singles. Their first release for Fontana would be 'Black Metallic' - probably their best-known song. This set includes songs that would appear on debut album 'Ferment' which would be released in 1992 as well as songs from the first two EPs.

01 She's My Friend
02 Shallow
03 Texture
04 Pleasure
05 Black Metallic
06 Upside Down
07 I Want to Touch You

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 39Mb

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Very good FM radio broadcast. This show was simultaneously shown live on television, and aired on the radio to ring in the new year. This was the first show I ever recorded myself and the sound on this is very good considering it was recorded via a crappy mono radio-cassette recorder onto a cheap C90 tape and has spent the last 30+ years in a box under the stairs. There's a bit of tape hiss audible through the right-hand channel, but apart from that everything's very listenable.

01 X Offender
02 Dreaming
03 Slow Motion
04 Shayla
05 Union City Blues
06 Atomic
07 Picture This
08 Pretty baby
09 Heart of Glass
10 Hanging on the Telephone
11 Sunday Girl

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 62Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast. Best known for the hit single 'Unbelievable' this show preceded the release of debut album 'Schubert Dip' and all seven songs here are from that release, including 'Unbelievable' and their two other biggest hits, 'Lies' and 'I Believe.'

01 Children
02 Long Summer Days
03 When You're Mine
04 Unbelievable
05 Travelling Not Running
06 Lies
07 I believe

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 38Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast, which captures the band touring mid-way between albums 'Calenture' and 'The Black Swan.' 'Beginning to See the Light' is a Velvet Underground cover. I don't know the exact date of this show, other than it being in April 1988.

01 Too Hot to Move, Too Hot to Think
02 Trick of the Light
03 Goodbye Little Boy
04 Spinning Top
05 Jerdacuttup Man
06 Lonely Stretch
07 Beginning to See the Light
08 Fairytale Love

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 38Mb

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Very good quality soundboard recording (the vocals are a little high in the mix) made just four days after the show in the previous post. The longer set-list would suggest that the West Runton show is an incomplete recording. Again, there are songs that wouldn't see the light of day until some time after this gig: 'Short Songs' and 'Moon Over Marin.'

01 Man With the Dogs
02 When You Get Drafted
03 Stealing People’s Mail
04 Kill the Poor
05 Funland at the Beach
06 California Uber Alles
07 Halloween
08 Police Truck
09 Bleed for Me
10 Too Drunk to Fuck
11 Holiday in Cambodia
12 I Kill Children
13 Chemical Warfare
14 Short Songs
15 Viva Las Vegas
16 Moon Over Marin

Source: Soundboard
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 69Mb

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Very good soundboard recording. Debut album 'Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables' had been released the previous month, though the show includes songs that wouldn't be released until some time later - 'Too Drunk to Fuck' was a single in 1981, while 'Bleed for Me' and 'Halloween' were singles in 1982. West Runton is a small village to the west of the sleepy Victorian seaside town of Cromer in Norfolk. An odd place for the Dead Kennedys to play, perhaps, and it must have come as something of a culture shock to the inhabitants (and the band), though the Sex Pistols had played in Cromer a few years before (see earlier post: Sex Pistols at Cromer).

01 Man With the Dogs
02 When Ya Get Drafted
03 Stealing People's Mail
04 Kill the Poor
05 Funland at the Beach
06 California Uber Alles
07 Halloween
08 Police Truck
09 Bleed for Me
10 Too Drunk to Fuck
11 Holiday in Cambodia

Source: Soundboard
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 48Mb

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This is a major upgrade of an earlier post, being a much more complete version of this superb show by Ride from 1991. The first song is taken from the original FM broadcast, which consisted of just five songs. The others are from a digital re-broadcast which omitted 'Drive Blind' but included eight songs not originally transmitted.

01 Drive Blind
02 Polar Bear
03 Unfamiliar
04 Like a Daydream
05 Vapour Trail
06 Perfect Time
07 Sennen
08 Taste
09 Today
10 Dreams Burn Down
11 Chelsea Girl
12 Nowhere
13 Seagull

Source: Digital/FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 76Mb

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Average-sounding audience recording, which is slightly disappointing, as the sound in the Cornwall Coliseum was usually very good. I organised a coach trip to this very gig. The Cult were touring their then-new album 'Electric.' 'Wild Thing/Louie Louie' fades out as the taper obviously ran out of tape - no doubt due in part to the very long gaps between encores, which have been edited as separate tracks here - and even these had gaps where the taping had been halted while waiting for the band to re-emerge from the dressing room. The Cornwall Coliseum was the most Westerly major venue in England and, in the 1980s, played host to many major acts. Sadly, it fell into disuse and was demolished in 2004.

01 Nirvana
02 Big Neon Glitter
03 Wild Flower
04 Love
05 Peace Dog
06 Electric Ocean
07 Revolution
08 Li'l Devil
09 Outlaw
10 Horse Nation
11 Love Removal Machine
12 Rain
13 Spiritwalker
14 The Phoenix
15 (crowd noise)
16 She Sells Sanctuary
17 (crowd noise)
18 Born to be Wild
19 Wild Thing/Louie Louie

Source: Audience recording
Quality: Average
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 60Mb (part 1), 54Mb (part 2)

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In response to a request by Jimmy, here's Altered Images in concert - one of the earliest tapes I have. Excellent FM radio broadcast. Altered Images were riding high, following the chart success (UK number 2) of their 'Happy Birthday' single and having gained extra exposure following singer Clare Grogan's appearance in the film 'Gregory's Girl.' I don't know the venue, though at the time many of the BBC In Concert shows were recorded at the Corporation's Paris Theatre in London.

01 A Day's Wait
02 Sentimental
03 Real Toys
04 Think That it Might
05 Love and Kisses
06 Legionnaire
07 Insects
08 Happy Birthday
09 Pinky Blue

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 37Mb

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Superb FM radio broadcast. Garbage were at the peak of their success at this point, following the release of second album 'Garbage 2.0' and closed the Reading Festival as main stage headliners on the Sunday night.

01 Only Happy When It Rains
02 Temptation Waits
03 I Think I'm Paranoid
04 Special
05 Hammering In My Head
06 Vow
07 When I Grow Up
08 Queer
09 Push It
10 You Look So Fine

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 67Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast made during a Radio 1 'Sound City' week - see earlier posts by Shed Seven, Echobelly and Lush for other shows from the week in Brighton.

01 Spastica
02 Connection
03 Line Up
04 2-1
05 See That Animal
06 S.O.F.T.
07 Car Song
08 Rockunroll
09 Never Here
10 Hold Me Now

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 37Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast. I don't recall this being on UK radio - this was an American show, complete with annoying DJ and lots of commercials (every couple of songs, in fact). So, I've carefully edited it so that it's now just the music.

01 Queer
02 Fix Me Now
03 Milk
04 Supervixen
05 Stupid Girl
06 Vow
07 Kick My Ass
08 Only Happy When it Rains

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 48Mb

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Superb digital radio broadcast. This was originally on FM radio back in 1996, but that broadcast omitted three songs ('Trip My Wire,' 'Kick My Ass' and 'Girl Don't Come') which are included here.

01 Queer
02 Fix Me Now
03 Not My Idea
04 Milk
05 Supervixen
06 Stupid Girl
07 Only Happy When It Rains
08 Vow
09 Trip My Wire
10 Kick My Ass
11 Subhuman
12 Girl Don't Come

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 70Mb

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Very good audience recording of the Queens on the main stage at Reading. Tobey Torres of Snake River Conspiracy guests on vocals on 'Quick and to the Pointless.' 'Precious and Grace' is a ZZ Top cover.

01 Regular John
02 Quick and to the Pointless
03 Feelgood Hit of the Summer
04 How to Handle a Rope
05 Ode to Clarissa
06 Monsters in the Parasol
07 Tension Head
08 Precious and Grace
09 Go With the Flow
10 The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
11 You Can't Quit Me, baby

Source: Audience
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 73Mb

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It's the 25th anniversary of this show today - a very good audience recording of the Ramones' third night at the Lyceum, London in 1985. Unlike the 'Return to London' soundboard recording of the previous night, this is the full show and the band are in fine form - as ever. Did the Ramones ever play a bad show?

01 Durango 95
02 Teenage lobotomy
03 Psychotherapy
04 Blitzkrieg Bop
05 Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio
06 Danger Zone
07 Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
08 Rock 'n' Roll High School
09 I Wanna Be Sedated
10 Beat on the Brat
11 The KKK Took My Baby Away
12 Go Mental
13 Judy is a Punk
14 Suzy is a Headbanger
15 Let's Dance
16 Too Tough to Die
17 Smash You
18 Chinese Rock
19 Warthog
20 Rockaway Beach
21 Surfin' Bird
22 Cretin Hop
23 California Sun
24 Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World
25 Pinhead
26 Mama's Boy
27 Highest Trails Above
28 Sheena is a Punk Rocker
29 Chasing the Night
30 I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement
31 We're a Happy Family

Source: Audience
Quality; Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 78Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast. The band were touring their third album 'Tighten Up Vol 88' at the time.

01 C'Mon Every Beatbox
02 The Battle of All Saints' Road
03 V Thirteen
04 Other 99
05 E=MC2

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 37Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast made at the Great British Music Festival in 1991.

01 Rubbish
02 Re-Educating Rita
03 Second to Last Will and Testament
04 Sheriff Fatman
05 Rent

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 22Mb

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Two short FM radio broadcasts, and my favourite type of Billy Bragg show - just him and his guitar.

Wembley Arena, London 19th January 1991
01 Levi Stubb's Tears
02 Rumours of War
03 Accident Waiting to Happen

Mountain Stage, Charlestown, West Virginia, 28th April 1991
04 The Marching Song Of Covert Battalions
05 Accident Waiting to Happen
06 Tank Park Salute
07 Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 46Mb

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This show happened exactly 25 years ago today and is posted to mark that anniversary. It's a stunning soundboard recording of the second of the Ramones' four 'comeback' shows in London. The band hadn't visited Britain for a few years, and their then-current LP 'Too Tough to Die' had initially only been available in Britain as an import. The four shows at The Lyceum proved the band was still a big draw over here (as if anyone should have doubted that...). This set is incomplete, missing about six songs, presumably due to the need to fit tracks onto the bootleg LP 'Return to London' from which this was originally recorded. I have an audience tape from the following night which has a complete - and longer - set-list. Some of the songs from these Lyceum shows (possibly from this night, given that it's a soundboard recording) turned up a few years back on the bonus 'Smash You Live in London' CD which accompanied the 'Their Toughest Hits' compilation album. The sound on this upload is sharper than the 'Smash You' CD which was a little muddy.

01 Durango 95
02 Teenage Lobotomy
03 Psycho Therapy
04 Blitzkrieg Bop
05 Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?
06 Danger Zone
07 Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
08 Rock 'n' Roll High School
09 I Wanna be Sedated
10 Beat on the Brat
11 The KKK took My Baby Away
12 Judy is a Punk
13 Suzy is a Headbanger
14 Let's Dance
15 Too Tough to Die
16 Wart Hog
17 Rockaway Beach
18 Surfin' Bird
19 Cretin Hop
20 California Sun
21 Mama's Boy
22 Highest Trails Above
23 Sheena is a Punk Rocker

Source: Soundboard
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 58Mb

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Very good audience recording - slightly bass-heavy, with the vocals a little low, but a blistering performance from the same night as the Eddie and the Hot Rods show posted earlier.

01 Rockaway Beach
02 Teenage Lobotomy
03 Blitzkrieg Bop
04 I Wanna Be Well
05 Glad to See You Go
06 Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
07 You're Gonna Kill That Girl
08 53rd and 3rd
09 Sheena is a Punk Rocker
10 I Can't Give You Anything
11 Let's Dance
12 Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
13 Surfin' Bird
14 Cretin Bop
15 Listen to my Heart
16 California Sun
17 I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You
18 Pinhead
19 Suzy is a Headbanger
20 Chain Saw
21 Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World
22 Judy is a Punk
23 Havana Affair
24 Commando

Source: Audience
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 67Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast recorded around the time the band's second album 'Doubt' was released. The set includes their best-known songs 'International Bright Young Thing' and 'Right Here Right Now.' Apparently, Jesus Jones are still going.

01 Happy
02 Move Mountains
03 International Bright Young Thing
04 Burning
05 Caricature
06 Desperation Girl
07 Victoria
08 Two and Two
09 Who? Where? Why?
10 Real Real Real
11 Bring it on Down
12 What Would You Know?
13 Trust Me
14 Info Freako
15 Blissed

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 76Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast made during the Great British Music Festival.

01 Happy
02 International Bright Young Thing
03 Right Here, Right Now
04 Real Real Real
05 Bring it on Down

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 24Mb

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Fantastic soundboard recording. This is known as 'The Boston Tapes' and compiled from two nights at The Orpheum Theatre in Boston. Somewhere there must exist the complete shows in this quality, given the soundboard source. There are audience recordings, but nothing that comes even close to this.

01 London Calling
02 Janie Jones
03 The Call Up
04 Brand New Cadillac
05 Somebody Got Murdered
06 I Fought the Law
07 Clampdown
08 Armagideon Time
09 Should I Stay or Should I Go
10 I’m So Bored With the USA
11 Straight to Hell
12 Clash City Rockers
13 Garageland

Source: Soundboard
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 64Mb

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Good quality audience recording. Morrissey was back in both critical and commercial favour following the release of 'You are the Quarry' and played second on the bill to The White Stripes on the Saturday night at Reading.

01 How Soon Is Now?
02 November Spawned A Monster
03 First Of The Gang To Die
04 Everyday Is Like Sunday (Subway Train Intro)
05 I Like You
06 Shoplifters Of The World Unite
07 Irish Blood, English Heart
08 Now My Heart Is Full
09 Munich Air Disaster 1958
10 The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores
11 There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
12 Let Me Kiss You
13 Don't Make Fun Of Daddy's Voice
14 Jack The Ripper
15 You Know I Couldn't Last

Source: Audience
Quality: Good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 90Mb

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Stunning FM radio broadcast made by US station WNEW. This was the second of two nights at The Palladium, and was also the night Pennie Smith took the legendary photograph of Paul Simonon about to smash his bass guitar on the stage.

01 Safe European Home
02 I'm So Bored with the USA
03 Complete Control
04 London Calling
05 (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
06 Koka Kola
07 I Fought the Law
08 Jail Guitar Doors
09 The Guns Of Brixton
10 English Civil War
11 Clash City Rockers
12 Stay Free
13 Clampdown
14 Police and Thieves
15 Capital Radio
16 Tommy Gun
17 Wrong 'Em Boyo
18 Janie Jones
19 Garageland
20 Armagideon Time
21 Career Opportunities
22 What's My Name
23 White Riot

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 57Mb (part 1), 50Mb (part 2)

Download part 1 here
Download part 2 here