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Stiff Little Fingers, Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany, 30th November 1980

Superb recording from a German TV broadcast.

01 Intro
02 Nobody's Hero
03 Barbed Wire Love
04 Wait and See
05 Gotta Gettaway
06 Johnny Was
07 Back to Front
08 Fly the Flag
09 Alternative Ulster
10 No Change
11 Mr Fire Coal Man
12 At the Edge
13 Wasted Life
14 Tin Soldiers
15 Suspect Device

Source: TV broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 83Mb

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Husker Du, Town & Country Club, London, UK, 21st June 1987

Excellent soundboard recording made while the band were touring their final album 'Warehouse: Songs and Stories.' This was Husker Du's last trip to the UK - they split in October 1987. The rarely-heard 'Gotta Lotta' was the b-side of the UK single 'Ice Cold Ice.'

01 These Important Years
02 Charity, Chastity, Prudence, and Hope
03 Standing in the Rain
04 Back From Somewhere
05 Ice Cold Ice
06 You're a Soldier
07 Could You be the One?
08 Too Much Spice
09 Everytime/Bed Of Nails
10 Tell You Why Tomorrow
11 What's Going On
12 Chartered Trips
13 Green Eyes
14 Celebrated Summer
15 She's a Woman (And Now He is a Man)
16 Never Talking to You Again
17 Gotta Lotta

Source: Soundboard
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 79Mb

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GBH, Union Rowing Boat Club, Nottingham, UK, 19th November 1983

Excellent soundboard recording, and one of the best GBH set-lists, too, with a great mix of songs from their fist two full-length albums, as well as the classic 'Leather, Bristles, Studs and Acne' EP and early singles. Play loud!

01 Necrophilia
02 Sick Boy
03 Dimplomatic Immunity
04 Man Trap
05 Hellhole
06 Catch 23
07 Freak
08 Give me Fire
09 Slut
10 Drugs Party
11 City Baby Attacked by Rats
12 City Baby's Revenge
13 No Survivors
14 I Feel Alright
15 Big Women
16 Bellend Bop
17 Generals
18 Self Destruct
19 Knife Edge
20 Alcohol

Source: Soundboard
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 73Mb

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GBH, Klub Foot, Hammersmith, London, 16th December 1982

Very good soundboard recording, though the start of the first track has too much bass, which gives way to slightly too little bass, but still a very listenable show.

01 Time Bomb
02 Sick Boy
03 Necrophilia
04 Knife Edge
05 Maniac
06 Give Me Fire
07 I am the Hunted
08 Generals
09 Slut
10 Mantrap
11 Dead on Arrival
12 Freak
13 City Baby Attacked by Rats
14 Race Against Time
15 Boston Babies
16 Big Women
17 No Survivors
18 Bellend Bop
19 Alcohol
20 Sick Boy
21 Knife Edge

Source: Soundboard
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 85Mb

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Portishead, L'Elysee Montmartre, Paris, France, 12th April 1995

Superb six-song FM radio broadcast, which includes versions of 'Over' and 'Mourning Air' - songs which wouldn't see the light of day until the band's second album, two years after this show.

01 Unknown
02 Glory Box
03 Over
04 Wandering Star
05 Mourning Air
06 Sour Times

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

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The Birthday Party, The Sporting, Athens, Greece, 17th September 1982

Excellent soundboard recording. As ever, on this recording The Birthday Party are an intense live proposition.

01 Hamlet (Pow Pow Pow)
02 Sonny's Burning
03 6" Gold Blade
04 Deep in the Woods
05 The Dim Locator
06 Fears of Gun
07 Still Burning
08 Release the Bats
09 She's Hit
10 Dead Joe
11 Funhouse
12 Junkyard
13 Loose

Source: Soundboard
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 90Mb

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The Stranglers, Parc Dèpartemental, La Courneuve, France, 15th June, 1980

Very good audience recording from a festival organised by a French Socialist organisation. For a 30-year-old audience recording, this really is something quite special.

01 Intro
02 Shah Shah A Go Go
03 Ice
04 Toiler on the Sea
05 Duchess
06 Hanging Around
07 Baroque Bordello
08 Meninblack
09 Down in the Sewer
10 Who Wants the World
11 Thrown Away
12 I Feel Like a Wog
13 Tank
14 Nuclear Device
15 Genetix
16 The Raven

Source: Audience recording
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 96Mb

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The Stranglers, The Ritz, New York, USA, 21st October 1980

Superb American FM radio broadcast. Originally, there were a couple of lengthy commercial breaks in the set, but I've deleted those to keep the flow of this excellent set, which (for me at least) features some of The Stranglers' best songs.

01 Intro/Hallow to Our Men
02 I Feel Like a Wog
03 Toiler on the Sea
04 Hanging Around
05 Down in the Sewer
06 Who Wants the World
07 Tank
08 Nuclear Device
09 Genetix
10 The Raven/Outro

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

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The Birthday Party, University Refectory, Sydney, Australia, 6th January 1982

Superb FM radio broadcast with The Birthday Party in typically full-on form.

01 Cry
02 She's Hit
03 Dim locator
04 A Dead song
05 Nick the Stripper
06 Zoo Music Girl
07 Bully Bones
08 King Ink
09 Release the Bats
10 (Sometimes) Pleasure Heads Must Burn
11 Loose

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

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Suede, Tower Ballroom, Blackpool, UK, 11th February, 1994

Superb FM radio broadcast from a BBC Radio 1 In Concert broadcast. This was Bernard Butler's penultimate show as a member of Suede, and features tracks that were to appear on the band's second album "Dog Man Star" as well as tracks from their debut. Also includes the three songs the band performed on "Later With Jools Holland" the previous year.

01 Pantomime Horse
02 This Hollywood Life
03 We are the Pigs
04 Animal Nitrate
05 Heroine
06 My Insatiable One
07 He's Dead
08 Metal Mickey
09 New Generation
10 She's Not Dead
11 Sleeping Pills
12 Stay Together

Later with Jools Holland 4th June 1993
13 So Young
14 The Next Life
15 My Insatiable One

Source: FM radio broadcast/TV broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 93Mb

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Sugar, Cabaret Metro, Chicago, USA, 22nd July 1992

Superb soundboard (or FM radio) recording of Sugar at what was probably their absolute peak. A blistering performance by a band which should have achieved so much more.

01 The Act We Act
02 A Good Idea
03 Changes
04 Out of Time
05 Helpless
06 If I Can't Change Your Mind
07 Where Diamonds are Halos
08 Hoover Dam
09 Beer Commercials
10 Slick
11 Anyone
12 Clownmaster
13 The Slim
14 Armenia City in the Sky
15 Dum Dum Boys
16 Man in the Moon

Source: Soundboard or FM radio
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 85Mb

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Muse, Reading Festival, Reading, UK, 26th August 2006

Superb FM radio broadcast of highlights of Muse's headlining set at the 2006 Reading Festival.

01 Intro
02 Knights of Cydonia
03 Hysteria
04 Map of the Problematique
05 Riff
06 Butterflies and Hurricanes
07 Invincible
08 Riff
09 Starlight
10 Kaoss Pad Interlude
11 Time is Running Out
12 Stockholm Syndrome
13 Take a Bow

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

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Happy New Year!

Just a quick post to wish a happy 2010 to everyone who's downloaded some of these old gigs, hopefully enjoyed them, and to all those who have taken the time to post comments, which are much appreciated.

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