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Queens Of The Stone Age
John Dee, Oslo, Norway, 9th December 2000

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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Big Country
Hammersmith Palais, London, UK, 27th June 1983

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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Catherine Wheel
Waterfront, Norwich, UK, 26th April 1992

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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Catherine Wheel
Marquee, London, UK, 5th September 1991

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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Blondie
Apollo Theatre, Glasgow, UK, 31st December 1979

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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EMF
Town & Country Club, London, UK, 30th January 1991

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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The Triffids
Shaw Theatre, London, UK, April 1988

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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Dead Kennedys
Rhienterassen, Bonn, West Germany,
15th October 1980

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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Dead Kennedys
Pavillion, West Runton, Norfolk, UK,
11th October 1980

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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Ride
Town and Country Club, London, UK, 7th March 1991

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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The Cult
Cornwall Coliseum, St Austell, Cornwall, UK,
26th March 1987

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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Altered Images
BBC In Concert (venue unknown), 17th October 1981

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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Garbage
Reading Festival, Reading, UK, 30th August 1998

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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Elastica
Zap Club, Brighton, UK, 6th September 1994

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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