Excellent digital radio broadcast. This is an upgrade to an earlier post, which only had six songs from this show. The Boomtown Rats were touring their 1982 album their album "V Deep" at the time and this set has songs from that as well as earlier numbers. Sorry - "Banana Republic" is listed as the last song in the accompanying text file, but it wasn't broadcast.

01 Like Clockwork
02 Charmed Lives
03 Up all Night
04 House on Fire
05 Nothing Happened Today
06 Wind Chill Factor (Minus Zero)
07 Never in a Million Years
08 Sleep
09 I Don't Like Mondays
10 Having My Picture Taken
11 Rat Trap
12 Keep it Up
13 Under Their Thumb

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

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Very good recording of The Darkness at the end of 2003. This sounds as though it was from a web-cast and is a typical set-list for the time.

01 Bareback
02 Black Shuck
03 Growing on Me
04 The Best of Me
05 Makin' Out
06 Love is Only a Feeling
07 Physical Sex
08 Get Your Hands Off My Woman
09 Givin' Up
10 Stuck in a Rut
11 Friday Night
12 I Believe in a Thing Called Love
13 Love on the Rocks (With no Ice)

Source: Probable web-cast
Quality: very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 80Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcasts from Scotland's T in the Park festival. In the first, The Darkness were the opening act on the main stage on the Sunday. In the second, just a year later, they were headlining after David Bowie was forced to pull out due to illness, and turn in a blistering performance, which I didn't know I had until sorting through some un-labelled MiniDiscs!

T in the Park, 13th July 2003
01 Growing on Me
02 Best of Me
03 I Believe in a Thing Called Love

T in the Park, 10th July 2004
01 Black Shuck
02 Growing on Me
03 The Best of Me
04 Makin' Out
05 Love is Only a Feeling
06 Physical Sex
07 Stuck in a Rut
08 Hazel Eyes
09 Friday Night
10 I Believe in a Thing Called Love
11 Street Spirit (Fade Out)

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

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Excellent digital radio broadcast. I seem to remember the band played the main stage in the afternoon.

01 Back of My Mind
02 Flying
03 Mirror Me
04 Fine Time
05 Walkaway
06 Alright
07 Two of a Kind

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

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Excellent FM radio broadcast. The Darkness were riding high on the success of 2003's debut album "Permission to Land" and this set includes many of the songs from that, plus some b-sides, their cover of Radiohead's "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" and an early version of "Hazel Eyes" which would appear on 2005's follow-up album "One Way Ticket to Hell." This is posted to mark confirmation of The Darkness' reunion and scheduled appearance at Download 2011.

01 Black Shuck
02 Growing on Me
03 The Best of Me
04 Makin' Out
05 Love Is Only a Feeling
06 Physical Sex
07 Get Your Hands Off My Woman
08 Stuck in a Rut
09 Hazel Eyes
10 Friday Night
11 I Believe in a Thing Called Love
12 Givin' Up
13 Street Spirit (Fade Out)
14 Love on the Rocks With No Ice

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 103Mb

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Excellent digital radio broadcast. Danko Jones was touring in support of fifth album "Below the Belt" and this show includes one song from that and a selection of earlier tracks, all performed with the ban's usual gusto.

01 Intro
02 The First Date
03 Baby Hates Me
04 Full of Regret
05 Sugar Chocolate
06 Sugar High
07 Had Enough
08 Lovercall
09 Cadillac
10 Mountain

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 56Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcasts to mark the rumoured Darkness reunion. The first was made at the end of 2002 for XFM, before The Darkness hit the big time, while the second was just a couple of weeks after their triumphant main stage appearance at the Reading Festival.

XFM Xmas Party, Islington Academy, London, UK
10th December 2002
XFM Xmas
01 Bareback
02 Black Shuck
03 The Best of Me
04 Growing on Me
05 Love is Only a Feeling
06 Get Your Hands Off My Woman
07 Givin' Up
08 Stuck in a Rut
09 I Believe in a Thing Called Love
10 Love on the Rocks (With no Ice)

Radio One Big Weekend, Cardiff, Wales
14th September 2003
01 Growing on Me
02 Stuck in a Rut
03 I Believe in a Thing Called Love
04 Street Spirit (Fade Out)
05 Love on the Rocks (With no Ice)
06 Interview

Source: FM radio broadcasts
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 101Mb

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Excellent FM radio broadcast. The Darkness were on their first major tour and on the verge of huge success. In August 2003 they had played the Reading Festival, being moved up from the second stage to the main stage as it became apparent to the organisers that they would be one of the weekend's biggest attractions (and they were). The following year they were big enough to headline the festival. This show features five songs from debut album "Permission to Land" as well as four b-sides and their cover of Radiohead's "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" and is posted to mark the significant rumours of the band re-forming.

01 Growing on Me
02 The Best of Me
03 Makin' Out
04 Love is Only a Feeling
05 Physical Sex
06 Get Your Hands Off My Woman
07 Stuck in a Rut
08 Street Spirit (Fade Out)
09 Friday Night
10 I Believe in a Thing Called Love

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 128kbps mp3
File size: 38Mb

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Excellent digital radio broadcast made for the BBC's 'Rock Goes To College' programme. This recording was probably made sometime between the release of the band's third album "The Absolute Game" and the fourth, "Joy." "An Incident in Algiers" appeared on the bonus album "Strength Through Joy" which came with initial copies of the third LP. This show did not appear on The Skids' live CD which came out a few years ago.

01 Working for the Yankee Dollar
02 An Incident in Algiers/Out of Town
03 Masquerade
04 A Woman in Winter
05 Into the Valley

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

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Excellent digital radio broadcast made when The Style Council were touring second album "Cafe Bleu" which was released in March 1984. This set contains songs from that and 1983's debut "Introducing The Style Council" and a couple of b-sides.

01 Meeting Over Yonder
02 My Ever Changing Moods
03 Le Depart
04 Head Start for Happiness
05 Party Chambers
06 The Whole Point of No Return
07 Speak Like a Child
08 The Paris Match

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

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Excellent digital radio broadcast. The precise date of this show is unknown, but probably follows the release of second album "Candy-O" as there are two songs from that album, with the remainder from their self-titled debut, which came out in 1978.

01 All Mixed Up
02 Nightspots
03 My Best Friend's Girl
04 Bye Bye Love
05 Moving in Stereo
06 Candy O
07 I'm in Touch With Your World

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

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Excellent digital radio broadcast of Suede playing on the NME Stage on the Friday at Glastonbury 1993. The band's debut album had been released at the end of March 1993 and all these songs come from that and their early singles, with the exception of "Still Life," introduced here as 'a new song' which would appear on record when the band's second album "Dog Man Star" was released over a year later.

01 The Next Life
02 So Young
03 Moving
04 My Insatiable One
05 Pantomine Horse
06 He's Dead
07 Animal Nitrate
08 Still Life
09 The Drowners
10 Metal Mickey
11 Sleeping Pills
12 To The Birds

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 66Mb

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Excellent digital radio broadcast. The band were touring prior to the release of their sixth and final album "Munki." This set includes three songs from that album as well as earlier classics. This show was not on the band's "Live in Concert" album.

01 Dream Lover
02 Moe Tucker
03 Happy When it Rains
04 Snakedriver
05 Reverence
06 Cracking Up
07 Head On

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

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Superb digital radio broadcast. Oasis had released their debut album in August 1994 and were touring in support of it. Nine of these songs are from the album. "Sad Song" was only on the Japanese and vinyl versions, while "Whatever" was to be released as a single just a week after this show was recorded. "I Am the Walrus" is a Beatles' cover which regularly closed Oasis shows.

01 Rock 'n' Roll Star
02 Columbia
03 Digsy's Dinner
04 Shakermaker
05 Bring it on Down
06 Up in the Sky
07 Slide Away
08 Cigarettes and Alcohol
09 Married With Children
10 Sad Song
11 Whatever
12 I Am the Walrus

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

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Excellent digital radio broadcast capturing Blur playing fifth on the bill on the Sunday on the NME Stage. The band's third album "Parklife" had been released two months earlier and five of these songs are from that album.

01 Chemical World
02 Bank Holiday
03 End of a Century
04 Sunday Sunday
05 There's no Other Way
06 Magic America
07 To the End
08 This is a Low

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

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Excellent digital radio broadcast capturing The Zutons playing third from bottom of the bill on The Other Stage at Glastonbury two months after the release of debut album "Who Killed...... The Zutons." Six of these songs come from that release, the exception being "Nobody Loves Me" which was a b-side of fifth single "You Will You Won't."

01 Zuton Fever
02 Havana Gang Brawl
03 Pressure Point
04 Confusion
05 Dirty Dancehall
06 Nobody Loves Me
07 You Will You Won't

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

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Excellent digital radio broadcast. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were touring in support of their third album "Damn the Torpedoes" and this show has two songs from that release and five earlier numbers.

01 Shadow of a Doubt
02 Anything that's Rock 'n' Roll
03 I Need to Know
04 Stories We Could Tell
05 Refugee
06 Breakdown
07 American Girl

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

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