Big Box of Tapes

The Fall, Keystone, Berkeley, California, USA, 10th July 1981

2011-11-24T12:03:00.000Z

Very good recording of The Fall playing in California a few months after the release of their acclaimed mini-album "Slates," from which come three songs here, as well as earlier tracks from debut "Live at the Witch Trials" and third album "Grotesque." Also included is the single-only release "Totally Wired" and then-forthcoming single "Lie Dream of a Casino Soul" and "Hip Priest" which would appear on 1982's classic "Hex Enduction Hour" album.

01 Lie Dream of a Casino Soul

02 An Older Lover

03 Totally Wired

04 The NWRA

05 Fit and Working Again

06 Hip Priest

07 New Face in Hell

08 Prole Art Threat

09 Container Drivers

10 No Xmas for John Quays

Source: Soundboard

Quality: Very good

Encoding: 192kbps mp3

File size: 83Mb

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The Rezillos, 100 Club, London, UK, 30th March 2006

2011-11-24T09:30:00.000Z

Excellent digital radio broadcast. The Rezillos were part of BBC 6Music's 25th anniversary of punk celebration at London's legendary 100 Club. This set includes four then-new songs which, apart from the digital-download release "No 1 Boy," have yet to see the light of day. With original guitarist Jo Callis having left the band, who knows if the mooted album will ever appear.

01 (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures

02 Flying Saucer Attack

03 Top Of The Pops

04 Cold Wars

05 Love No More

06 25 Miles

07 No 1 Boy

08 Mystery Action

09 Yesterday's Tormentor

Source: Digital radio broadcast

Quality: Excellent

Encoding: 192kbps mp3

File size: 42Mb

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The Charlatans, BBC Philharmonic Studio, Salford, UK, 31st October 2011

2011-11-03T09:44:00.000Z

Excellent digital radio broadcast. The band were playing at a BBC 6Music showcase on the day of the inaugural John Peel lecture (given by Pete Townshend), hence the dedication of "Sproston Green" to Peelie.

01 Forever

02 Just When You're Thinking Things Over

03 Tellin' Stories

04 North Country Boy

05 Impossible

06 Smash the System

07 The Only One I Know

08 Oh! Vanity

09 Sproston Green

Source: Digital radio broadcast

Quality: Excellent

Encoding: 192kbps mp3

File size: 65Mb

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New Model Army, Finsbury Park, London, UK, 27th July 1986

2011-10-18T09:33:00.000+01:00

Good quality recording of New Model Army supporting The Damned at second of two nights celebrating the latter's 10th anniversary. This is a transfer from a cassette bought in 1986 - probably the same recording that is available elsewhere, but perhaps one tape generation or so earlier… it sounds very slightly clearer than the other version. Possibly…

01 Intro

02 Christian Militia

03 Ambition

04 Ten Commandments

05 Waiting

06 Heroes

07 A Liberal Education

08 No Rest

09 Young, Gifted and Skint

10 51st State

11 Smalltown England

12 The Hunt

13 My Country

14 Gimme All Your Lovin'

15 Betcha

Source: Audience

Quality: Good

Encoding: 192kbps mp3

File size: 81Mb

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Soul Asylum, Glastonbury Festival, UK, 23rd June 1995

2011-10-13T09:48:00.000+01:00

Excellent digital radio broadcast of Soul Asylum playing third on the bill on the main stage at the Glastonbury Festival in 1995, less than three weeks after the release of their seventh album "Let Your Dim Light Shine" from which four of these songs are taken.

01 Shut Down

02 Somebody to Shove

03 Misery

04 Get on Out

05 Runaway Train

06 Just Like Anyone

07 Closer to the Stars

08 Crawl

Source: Digital radio broadcast

Quality: Excellent

Encoding: 192kbps mp3

File size: 44Mb

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Foo Fighters, Festival Hall, Melbourne, Australia, 22nd March 1998

2011-10-12T12:05:00.000+01:00

Excellent digital radio broadcast featuring songs from the Foo Fighters' eponymous debut and second album "The Colour and the Shape" as well as a cover of Killing Joke's "Requiem" and, just before "This is a Call" a brief attempt at The Pixies' "Cactus." There's a short station ident during the intro of "Requiem" which was too tricky to remove and "I'll Stick Around" fades out after two minutes.

01 Monkey Wrench

02 Enough Space

03 Big Me

04 The Colour and the Shape

05 For all the Cows

06 Wattershed

07 Up in Arms

08 Weenie Beenie

09 Everlong

10 New Way Home

11 This is a Call

12 Requiem

13 I'll Stick Around (fades out)

Source: Digital radio broadcast

Quality: Excellent

Encoding: 192kbps mp3

File size: 68Mb

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The Levellers, Academy, Manchester, UK, 4th October 1993

2011-10-12T09:16:00.000+01:00

Excellent soundboard recording which research suggests was made at The Academy in Manchester on 4th October 1993 when The Levellers were touring their self-titled album.

01 Warning
02 100 Years of Solitude
03 Sell Out
04 This Garden
05 One Way
06 Belaruse
07 Battle of the Beanfield
08 Is This Art?
09 Another Man's Cause
10 The Riverflow
11 Julie
12 Julie (Reprise)
13 Liberty
14 Subvert

Source: Soundboard
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 84Mb

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PJ Harvey, Big Day Out, Melbourne, Australia, 29th January 2001

2011-10-11T21:29:00.000+01:00

Excellent digital radio broadcast featuring muscular versions of eight songs from Polly Jean's 2000 release "Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea" plus a couple from 1992's "Rid of Me" and one from 1994's "To Bring You My love. Aussie station Triple-J has an annoying habit of putting loads of station idents in the broadcasts, and where possible these have been removed - there are slight changes in the level of crowd noise where these have been deleted, but where the ident went over the start of "This Wicked Tongue" I have had to leave it in.

01 Rid of Me
02 The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore
03 Send His Love to Me
04 This Wicked Tongue
05 One Line
06 You Said Something
07 A Place Called Home
08 Man-size
09 This is Love
10 Kamikaze
11 Big Exit

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 58Mb

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Nirvana, Palace Theatre, Melbourne, Australia, 1st February 1992

2011-10-11T15:57:00.000+01:00

Excellent digital radio broadcast. Nirvana were touring to promote second album "Nevermind" and this highlights set includes songs from that and debut "Bleach."

01 About a Girl
02 Come as You Are
03 Lithium
04 Breed
05 Polly
06 Lounge Act
07 Negative Creep
08 Love Buzz
09 Blew

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

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Counting Crows, Town & Country Club, Leeds, UK, 8th November 1994

2011-10-11T15:25:00.001+01:00

Excellent FM radio broadcast. Counting Crows were touring to promote debut album "August and Everything After" on which most of these songs appear.

01 Rain King (partial, fades in)
02 Anna Begins
03 Time and Time Again
04 Mr Jones
05 Jumping Jesus
06 Round Here

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

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The Stranglers, Dominion Theatre, London, 26th February 1985

2011-10-11T13:54:00.000+01:00

Very good FM radio broadcast of The Stranglers on the "Aural Sculpture" tour in early 1985 and featuring songs from that album as well as earlier material.

01 Intro
02 Something Better Change
03 Uptown
04 No Mercy
05 Nice & Sleazy
06 Thrown Away
07 Midnight Summer Dream
08 European Female
09 Golden Brown
10 Peaches
11 Death & Night & Blood
12 Punch & judy
13 Hanging Around
14 Down In The Sewer

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

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Laura Marling, BBC Maida Vale studios, London, UK, 22 September 2011

2011-10-11T11:18:00.001+01:00

Excellent digital radio broadcast featuring songs from all three of Laura Marling's albums.

01 Rambling Man
02 Alpha Shallows
03 Alas I Cannot Swim
04 Ghosts
05 The Muse
06 Hope In The Air
07 Don't Ask Me Why
08 Salinas
09 Night After Night
10 Wrote He Wrote
11 Sophia
12 All My Rage
13 I Speak Because I Can

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

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Siouxsie and the Banshees, Reading Festival, Reading, UK, 28th August 1993

2011-10-11T10:54:00.000+01:00

An excellent recording (probably from the soundboard) of the whole of the Banshees' appearance on the main stage at the 1993 Reading Festival. The set is mostly from their mid-1990s albums, including four songs which would appear nearly 18 months later on the band's final release "The Rapture."

01 Fall From Grace
02 The Killing Jar
03 Stargazer
04 Cities in Dust
05 Hang Me High
06 Nightshift
07 Not Forgotten
08 The Ghost in You
09 Face to Face
10 Kiss Them for Me
11 Peek a Boo
12 Love Out Me
13 Fear of the Unknown
14 Israel
15 Monitor

Source: Probable soundboard
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 103Mb

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The Prodigy, Lowlands Festival, Holland, 19th August 2005

2011-10-11T09:24:00.000+01:00

Excellent digital radio broadcast, featuring tracks from the four albums The Prodigy had released to that date. This is the complete show, though, owing to a recording problem, the end of "Poison" is missing.

01 Their Law
02 Wake the Fuck Up
03 Hot Ride
04 Breathe
05 Spitfire
06 Back 2 Skool
07 Firestarter
08 Action Radar
09 Warning
10 Climbatize
11 Voodoo People
12 Poison
13 Smack My Bitch Up
14 Out of Space

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 96Mb

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Belly, Glastonbury Festival, UK, 26th June 1995

2011-10-11T08:14:00.000+01:00

Excellent digital radio broadcast of highlights of Belly's third-on-the-bill appearance on the NME Stage at the 1995 Glastonbury Festival. This set includes songs from both the band's albums: 1993's "Star and 1995's "King."

01 King
02 Now They'll Sleep
03 Dusted
04 Super-connected
05 Feed The Tree
06 Seal My Fate
07 Gepetto

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

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Oasis, Live in London and Holland 1994-1996

2011-09-09T11:26:00.000+01:00

Excellent radio or soundboard recordings of Oasis in 1994 and 1996. This is from a CD titled "Abel & Kane" picked up recently in a second-hand shop.

Fan Club Show, London, December 1994
01 It's Good to be Free
02 Married With Children
03 Sad Song (Acoustic)
04 Talk Tonight (Acoustic)
05 Whatever
06 I am the Walrus

Utrecht, Holland 10th January 1996
07 The Swamp Song
08 Acquiesce
09 Some Might Say
10 Cigarettes and Alcohol
11 Wonderwall (Acoustic)
12 Live Forever
13 Supersonic
14 Hello
15 Roll With it
16 Whatever (Acoustic)
17 Champagne Supernova

Maida Vale Studios, London, 1994
18 Up in the Sky (Acoustic)

Source: Soundboard or radio broadcasts
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 114Mb

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JJ72, Brookes University, Oxford 5th February 2001, Club Ifor Bach, Cardiff October 2000

2011-09-08T16:57:00.003+01:00

Excellent radio broadcasts, featuring songs from the band's two albums.

Brookes University, Oxford 5th February 2001
01 October Swimmer
02 Long Way South
03 Surrender
04 Formulae
05 Algeria
06 Bumble Bee
07 Improv
08 Willow
09 Undercover Angel
10 Snow

Club Ifor Bach, Cardiff October 2000
11 October Swimmer
12 Surrender
13 Bumble Bee
14 Oxygen

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

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The Style Council, Dominion Theatre, london, UK, 1984

2011-06-28T23:36:00.000+01:00

Excellent digital radio broadcast. The precise date is unknown, but probably from a similar time (around March) to the Chippenham show posted earlier. This six-song highlights set includes songs from the band's first two albums.

01 My Ever Changing Moods
02 Money Go Round
03 Long Hot Summer
04 Meeting Over Yonder
05 Head Start to Happiness
06 Mick's Up

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 43Mb

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The Feeling, The Mermaid Theatre, London, 2nd June 2011

2011-06-28T18:42:00.000+01:00

Excellent digital radio broadcast, capturing The Feeling playing a special show to mark the release of third album 'Together We Were Made' from which six of the songs in this set are taken.

01 Set My World on Fire
02 Fill My Little World
03 Never Be Lonely
04 Say No
05 Rose
06 Another Soldier
07 Leave Me Out of it
08 Sewn
09 A Hundred Sinners
10 Dance for the Lights
11 Join With Us
12 Love it When You Call

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 84Mb

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The Cure, Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, UK, 1997

2011-06-28T16:39:00.000+01:00

Excellent digital radio broadcast.

01 Shake Dog Shake
02 Torture
03 Push
04 Fascination Street
05 Cut
06 Prayers For Rain
07 Boys Don't Cry

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

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Fleet Foxes, BBC Radio Theatre, London, UK, 3rd June 2011

2011-06-12T22:17:00.001+01:00

Excellent digital radio broadcast. Fleet Foxes were touring to promote second album 'Helplessness Blues' and this show includes songs from that and their self-titled debut release. 'The Shrine/An Argument' and 'Blue Spotted Tail' were broadcast a few days later on a different show, but I have spliced them into the correct positions in the set to make a more complete show (the band would have performed another four or five songs looking at set-lists from shows around this date).

01 The Cascades
02 Grown Ocean
03 Drops in the River
04 Battery Kinzie
05 Sim Sala Bim
06 Mykonos
07 Your Protector
08 White Winter Hymnal
09 Ragged Wood
10 Lorelai
11 He Doesn't Know Why
12 The Shrine/An Argument
13 Blue Spotted Tail
14 Blue Ridge Mountains
15 Helplessness Blues

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 93Mb

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Suede, Brixton Academy, London, UK, 21st May 2011

2011-06-07T20:28:00.000+01:00

Excellent digital radio broadcast from Suede's three-night stint at Brixton Academy, during which they played their first three albums on consecutive nights. Being the third night, this set mostly features tracks from 1996's 'Coming Up.' Suede's albums are currently being reissued as deluxe editions, each comprising two CDs and a DVD.

01 Trash
02 Film Star
03 Lazy
04 By The Sea
05 She
06 The Beautiful Ones
07 Picnic By The Motorway
08 Saturday Night
09 Europe Is Our Playground
10 Can't Get Enough
11 So Young
12 Metal Mickey
13 Animal Nitrate

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

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The Charlatans, Reading Festival, UK, 29th August 1992

2011-05-18T20:58:00.000+01:00

Very good recording, probably made from the audience, as the bass is a little more prominent than a soundboard recording and there's (faint) traces of voices and (again, faint) phasing of the sound. The Charlatans were second on the bill on the Friday night, appearing before headliners The Wonderstuff.

01 You're Not Very Well
02 Weirdo
03 Tremolo Song
04 Then
05 Can't Even Be Bothered
06 I Don't Want To See The Sights
07 The Only One I Know
08 Ignition
09 Indian Rope
10 Sproston Green

Source: Probably audience
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 77Mb

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The Darkness, Rockpalast, Germany, 3rd July 2004

2011-05-18T18:10:00.002+01:00

Perfect quality recording. No idea where I got this one from, but it was marked as 'soundboard,' though I suspect it's from a TV broadcast. Anyway, the band are in truly exceptional form - as you might expect after two years of near-constant touring. This recording is presented to celebrate the fact that I have just ordered tickets to see The Darkness at Download.

01 Bareback
02 Black Shuck
03 Growing On Me
04 Best Of Me
05 Makin' Out
06 Winds Of Change
07 Love Is Only A Feeling
08 Physical Sex
09 Get Your Hands Off My Woman
10 Stuck in A Rut
11 Friday Night
12 I Believe in A Thing Called Love
13 Zugabe
14 Givin' Up
15 Street Spirit
16 Love On the Rocks With No Ice

Source: Soundboard
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 224kbps mp3
File size: 122Mb

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New York Dolls, Reading Festival, Reading, UK, 28th August 2004

2011-04-07T18:47:00.000+01:00

Perfect soundboard recording. New York Dolls had reformed after 29 years to play the Meltdown Festival on 11th June 2004 at the request of festival curator and long-time fan of the Dolls, Morrissey. Sadly, the reunion of the three surviving original members was short-lived as bassist Arthur "Killer" Kane died from Leukemia a month later on 13th July. This show took place just six weeks later with ex-Hanoi Rocks bassist Sami Yaffa in the line-up, a position he filled until 2010. This stunning set was available for a short while as a paid-for digital (Windows Media) download, but as it's been unavailable for years, it seems only fair to make it available once again.

01 Poem/Personality Crisis
02 Puss in Boots
03 Piece of My Heart
04Mystery Girls
05 You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory
06 Pills
07 Trash
08 Jet Boy
09 Personality Crisis

Source: Soundboard
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 81Mb

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Primal Scream Olympia, London, UK, November 2010

2011-04-04T13:06:00.001+01:00

Excellent digital radio broadcast. This show was recorded on either the 26th or 27th of November 2010 and sees Primal Scream performing the whole of their classic 1991 "Screamadelica" album. This is an upgrade to an earlier post, which was from a broadcast that didn't include "I'm Comin' Down" or "Higher Than the Sun" and which was also incorrectly dated. The final two songs have been taken from the earlier broadcast, as the BBC saw fit to edit them to shorter durations for the re-broadcast and I thought you'd prefer to have the full-length versions as originally performed.

01 Movin on Up
02 Slip Inside This House
03 Don't Fight it Feel it
04 Damaged
05 I'm Comin' Down
06 Shine Like Stars
07 Inner Flight
08 Higher Than the Sun
09 Loaded
10 Come Together

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 95Mb

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The Police, Hatfield Polytechnic, 1979

2011-04-02T16:14:00.000+01:00

Excellent digital radio broadcast. The precise date is unknown but, given that five of the song's are from 1978's "Outlandos d'Amour" LP, I suspect this is early in 1979.

01 Hole In My Life
02 So Lonely
03 Message In A Bottle
04 Roxanne
05 Fall Out
06 Truth Hits Everybody
07 Can't Stand Losing You

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

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The Boomtown Rats, Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK, 1982

2011-03-30T12:04:00.001+01:00

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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The Darkness, Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland, 8th November 2003

2011-03-22T08:02:00.000Z

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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The Darkness, T in the Park, Kinross, Scotland, 13th July 2003 and 10th July 2004

2011-03-21T13:36:00.000Z

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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Cast, V96, Chelmsford, UK, 17th August 1996

2011-03-17T14:16:00.002Z

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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The Darkness, Quart Festival, Kristiansand, Norway, 7th July 2004

2011-03-17T09:42:00.002Z

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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Danko Jones, Pinkpop, Holland, 30th May 2010

2011-03-08T13:32:00.000Z

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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The Darkness, London 10th December 2002 and Cardiff, 14th September 2003

2011-03-08T11:49:00.001Z

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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The Darkness, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 13th October 2003

2011-03-08T11:16:00.000Z

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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The Skids, Chelsea College, London, UK, 1981

2011-03-08T10:26:00.001Z

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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The Style Council, Golddiggers, Chippenham, UK, 10th March 1984

2011-03-08T08:32:00.000Z

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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The Cars, Sussex University, UK, 1979

2011-03-07T23:52:00.000Z

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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Suede, Glastonbury Festival, 25th June 1993

2011-03-07T23:00:00.000Z

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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The Jesus and Mary Chain, Electric Ballroom, London, UK, 27th April 1998

2011-03-07T18:19:00.001Z

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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Oasis, Civic Hall, Wolverhampton Civic Hall, UK, 11th December 1994

2011-03-07T14:04:00.001Z

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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Blur, Glastonbury Festival, UK, 26th June 1994

2011-03-07T10:10:00.000Z

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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The Zutons, Glastonbury Festival, UK, 27th June 2004

2011-03-07T09:44:00.000Z

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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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Oxford Polytechnic, Oxford, UK, 1980

2011-03-06T22:00:00.000Z

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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The White Stripes, Reading Festival, UK, 23rd August 2002

2011-02-12T14:00:00.000Z

Excellent FM radio broadcast. This was the White Stripes' first appearance at Reading, playing the main stage late on the Friday afternoon. This was the early days of White Stripes mania and they would return to Reading as headliners just two years later. This post of 2002's incendiary performance (sadly, the BBC broadcast omits a couple of songs from the set) is posted to mark the duo's decision to break up the band.

01. Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
02. When I Hear My Name
03. I Think I Smell a Rat
04. Jolene
05. Hotel Yorba
06. Apple Blossom
07. Jimmy the Exploder
08. Wayfaring Stranger
09. Cannon/John the Revelator
10. For The Love of Ivy
11. Screwdriver/Peggy Sue

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

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Rollins Band, Woodstock, 13th August 1995 and Reading Festival 28th August 1994

2011-02-10T15:13:00.000Z

Excellent recordings from a TV broadcast (Woodstock) and FM radio (Reading Festival). These shows come from a bootleg called "Alien Blueprint" which states only that the final six songs were "recorded live in Europe" but checking them against an old tape of the radio broadcast from Reading reveals them to be the same.

Woodstock, 13th August 1994:
01 Step Back
02 Wrong Man
03 Right Here, Too Much
04 Alien Blueprint
05 Civilized
06 Fool
07 Disconnect

Reading Festival, 28th August 1994:
08 Volume 4
09 Divine Object Of Hatred
10 Disconnect
11 Civilized
12 Icon
13 Liar

Source: TV/FM radio broadcasts
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 91Mb

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Iggy Pop, Neue Welt, Berlin, Germany, 26th January 1991

2011-02-09T14:35:00.000Z

Excellent soundboard recording. Iggy was touring to promote 1990's "Brick by Brick" album and there are several songs from that in this complete live show, as well as earlier solo tracks and classic Stooges' songs.

01 Five Foot One
02 Dirt
03 Loose
04 Lust For Life
05 China Girl
06 I Got a Right
07 Butt Town
08 Real Wild Child
09 My Baby Wants to Rock 'n' Roll
10 Neon Forest
11 Home
12 I Wanna Be Your Dog
13 No Fun
14 Search and Destroy

Source: Soundboard
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 99Mb

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Oasis, Clapham Grand, London, UK, 2005

2011-02-09T13:57:00.000Z

Excellent digital radio broadcast. Oasis were touring their sixth studio album "Don't Believe the Truth" at this point and this seven-song broadcast contains three songs from that album and earlier tracks.

01 (What's the Story) Morning Glory
02 Cigarettes and Alcohol
03 The Meaning of Soul
04 Mucky Fingers
05 Champange Supernova
06 Songbird
07 Don't Look Back in Anger

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

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The Beat, Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK, 1982

2011-02-09T13:06:00.001Z

Excellent digital radio broadcast. The Beat were touring their third (and final) album "Special Beat Service" at this time, and this set contains tracks from that as well as earlier songs.

01 Walk Away
02 Tears of a Clown
03 Spar Wid Me
04 Save it for Later
05 Rankin' Full Stop
06 Mirror in the Bathroom
07 Jeanette
08 Big Shot
09 Too Nice to Talk to

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

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Manic Street Preachers, Miners' Institute, Blackwood, Wales, 27th January 2011

2011-02-01T23:47:00.002Z

Excellent digital radio broadcast made when the Manic Street Preachers returned to perform in their home town of Blackwood, Wales for the first time in over 25 years. The set includes songs from 2010's "Postcards From a Young Man" album as well as songs from throughout their career.

01 Motorcycle Emptiness
02 Your Love Alone is Not Enough
03 Slash 'n' Burn
04 (It's Not War) Just the End of Love
05 Suicide Alley
06 My Little Empire
07 Faster
08 You Stole the Sun From My Heart
09 Postcards From a Young Man
10 If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
11 You Love Us
12 Some Kind of Nothingness
13 Motown Junk
14 A Design For Life
15 Suicide is Painless
16 Enola Alone
17 Masses Against the Classes

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 99Mb

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Loop, Portsmouth Polytechnic, Portsmouth, UK, 7th December 1989

2011-01-21T13:20:00.000Z

Very good soundboard recording. Loop were touring prior to the early 1990 release of what would turn out to be their final album "A Gilded Eternity."

01 Sunburst
02 Pulse
03 Breathe Into Me
04 Fade Out
05 Fever Knife
06 Vapour
07 Straight to Your Heart
08 Arc Lite
09 The Nail Will Burn
10 Burning World
11 Collision

Source: Soundboard
Quality: Very good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 103Mb

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The Stranglers, West Orange Creations Club, New Jersey, USA, 7th April 1981

2011-01-21T12:09:00.000Z

Good quality audience recording. The band were touring their "Meninblack" album at this point. I don't know if this is the full show (it's only 51 minutes long). "Nuclear Device" fades out as though the taper was recording on a C90 and had to flip the tape during the song.

01 Intro
02 Threatened
03 The Raven
04 Toiler On the Sea
05 Just Like Nothing On Earth
06 Thrown Away
07 Who Wants the World
08 Baroque Bordello
09 Second Coming
10 Hallow to Our Men
11 Tank
12 Nuclear Device
13 Genetix

Source: Audience
Quality: Good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 71Mb

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The Stranglers, Theatre Royal, Nottingham, UK, 19th August 1980

2011-01-18T22:01:00.000Z

Excellent FM radio broadcast which was a simultaneous transmission with the "Rockstage" TV appearance. This show was mid-way between "the Raven" and "The Meninblack" albums and includes what was probably a fairly early outing of "Thrown Away" which was the first single from the latter.

01 Shah Shah A Go Go
02 Ice
03 Who Wants The World?
04 Toiler On The Sea
05 Thrown Away
06 Tank
07 Nuclear Device
08 Genetix

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

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The Stranglers, Cabaret Metro, Chicago, USA, 28th April 1987

2011-01-18T20:31:00.001Z

Excellent FM radio broadcast. The band were still touring their "Dreamtime" album which had been released in the autumn of 1986.

01 No More Heroes
02 Was It You?
03 Down in the Sewer
04 Nice in Nice
05 Punch & Judy
06 Souls
07 Always the Sun
08 Big in America
09 Bring on the Nubiles
10 Shakin' Like a Leaf
11 Uptown
12 Tank
13 Toiler on the Sea
14 (Get a) Grip (on Yourself)
15 Duchess

Source: FM radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 79Mb

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The Stranglers, Masonic Hall, Toronto, Canada, 1st May 1983

2011-01-18T19:48:00.000Z

Excellent FM radio broadcast. This is obviously just the highlights of a longer live show, edited down to fit a one hour radio broadcast. The band were touring their late-1982 "Feline" album at this point.

01 Ships That Pass in the Night
02 It's a Small World
03 Just Like Nothing On Earth
04 No More Heroes
05 Never Say Goodbye
06 Baroque Bordello
07 Golden Brown
08 Midnight Summer's Dream
09 European Female
10 Tramp
11 Duchess
12 London Lady
13 Bring on the Nubiles (cocktail version)
14 Genetix

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

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The Stranglers, Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 27th November 1979

2011-01-18T00:56:00.000Z

Good quality audience recording of The Stranglers touring "The Raven" in late 1979. the taper appears to have flipped the tape during "The Raven" - and taken some time about it, too, as approx four minutes of the song are missing.

01 5 Minutes
02 Shah Shah A Go Go
03 Ice
04 Down in the Sewer
05 Hanging Around
06 The Raven
07 Dead Loss Angeles
08 Threatened
09 Tank
10 Burning Up Time
11 Bring on the Nubiles
12 Nuclear Device
13 Duchess
14 Toiler on the Sea

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

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Teenage Fanclub, The Astoria II, London, UK, 21st January 1996

2011-01-16T19:31:00.000Z

Excellent FM radio broadcast. The band were still touring their "Grand Prix" album which had been released in May 1995 and much of this set is taken from that album, along with earlier songs.

01 Intro
02 About You
03 The Cabbage
04 Don't Look Back
05 Escher
06 The Shadows
07 Going Places
08 God Knows it's True
09 Discolite
10 Mellow Doubt
11 Verisimilitude
12 Radio
13 Sparky's Dream
14 Neil Jung
15 The Concept
16 Everything Flows

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

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UK Subs, The Jolly Boatman, Hampton Court, Surrey, UK 21st December 1987

2011-01-15T21:15:00.001Z

Excellent mixing desk recording. The UK subs have just released their first album in nearly nine years (the excellent "Work in Progress") and this is posted to celebrate that. The band were touring their "Japan Today" album at the time, but most of the set is drawn from their first two, classic albums. You can buy the new Subs' album (and some of their earlier works) from www.captainoi.com.

01 Hey Santa
02 CID
03 Emotional Blackmail
04 Endangered Species
05 Rock 'n' Roll Savage
06 New York State Police
07 She's Not There
08 Limo Life
09 500cc
10 Thunderbird
11 Streets on Fire
12 Captain Scarlet
13 SK8 Tough
14 Left for Dead
15 Rockers
16 Warhead
17 Stranglehold
18 New Barbarians
19 Tomorrows Girls
20 Teenage
21 Party in Paris
22 All I Wanna Know
23 Kicks

Source: Soundboard
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 82Mb

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Alex Chilton, WLYX FM, Memphis, USA, 1975

2011-01-15T14:52:00.000Z

Good quality (though a bit hissy) FM radio broadcast. This is a pretty shambolic performance by an obviously-inebriated Chilton, performing his own songs and some covers: "Femme Fatale" is a Velvet Underground cover, "Death Cab for Cutie" was by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and "I Will Always Love You" a Dolly Parton song.

01 Femme Fatale
02 Oh Dana
03 Take Me Home And Make Me Like It
04 Jesus Christ
05 Death Cab For Cutie
06 Kizza Me
07 I Will Always Love You
08 The Letter

Source: FM Radio broadcast
Quality: Good
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 48Mb

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The Vibrators, BBC Paris Theatre, London, UK, 1978

2011-01-08T15:11:00.000Z

Excellent digital radio broadcast. This show was recorded shortly before the release of The Vibrators' second album "V2" and seven of the songs here come from that record.

01 War Zone
02 24 Hour People
03 Public Enemy
04 Eye Witness
05 Automatic Lover
06 Fall In Love
07 Troops Of Tomorrow
08 Judy Says
09 Destroy

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

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Richard Ashcroft, Mermaid Theatre, London, UK, 11th January 2006

2011-01-07T00:18:00.001Z

Excellent digital radio broadcast featuring songs from Richard Ashcroft's solo albums as well as Verve classics, all performed with the BBC Concert Orchestra.

01 Music Is Power
02 History
03 A Song For The Lovers
04 The Drugs Don't Work
05 Sweet Brother Malcolm
06 Lonely Soul
07 Lucky Man
08 Break The Night With Colour
09 Bittersweet Symphony

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

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Primal Scream, Barrowland, Glasgow, UK, 10th December 1994

2011-01-06T22:49:00.000Z

Excellent digital radio broadcast capturing Primal Scream at the peak of their commercial success following the release of 1994's "Give Out But Don't Give Up" album from which six of these songs are taken (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7 and 8). The remaining three come from 1991's "Screamadelica."

01 Jailbird
02 Rocks
03 Don't Fight It Feel It
04 Funky Jam
05 Call On Me
06 Come Together
07 (I'm Gonna) Cry Myself Blind
08 Give Out But Don't Give Up
09 Loaded

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 71Mb

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Portishead, Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury, UK, 26th June 1998

2011-01-06T21:53:00.000Z

Excellent digital radio broadcast of Portishead headlining the Jazzworld Stage on the Friday night at Glastonbury 1998. Four songs from their second album "Portishead" which was released that year, and one from 1996's debut "Dummy."

01 Cowboys
02 Elysium
03 Humming
04 Over
05 Roads

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

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Kula Shaker, The Junction, Cambridge, UK, 30th September 1996

2011-01-06T18:42:00.001Z

Excellent digital radio broadcast, from the year in which the band released their debut album "K" from which the majority of this set is taken.

01 Hey Dude
02 Knight on the Town
03 Under the Hammer
04 Grateful When You're Dead/Jerry Was There
05 303
06 Tattva
07 Hollow Man
08 Gokula/Hush
09 Govinda
10 Goodbye Tin Terriers
11 Smart Dogs

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

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EMF, Reading Festival, UK, 29th August 1992

2011-01-06T17:34:00.000Z

Excellent digital radio broadcast. EMF played third on the bill on the Saturday before Ride and headliners Public Enemy. In 1992 the band released their second album "Stigma" and two of the songs here are from that, with three from their 1991 debut "Schubert Dip," and two from the "Unexplained EP," including their cover of Iggy and the Stooges' classic "Search and Destroy."

01 Long Summer Days
02 Far From Me
03 Lies
04 Arizona
05 Getting Through
06 Children
07 Search and Destroy

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

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The Delgados, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK, 1998

2011-01-06T17:01:00.002Z

Excellent digital radio broadcast. This set was recorded at the Royal Festival Hall for the John Peel show, presumably around the time of the release of the band's second album "Peloton" from which five of the songs are taken.

01 The Arcane Model
02 Pull the Wires From the Wall
03 Repeat Failure
04 Take Me Out
05 The Actress
06 Thirteen Gliding Principles
07 Weaker Argument Defeats the Stronger

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

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PJ Harvey, Glastonbury Festival, UK, 25th June 1995

2011-01-06T16:30:00.000Z

Excellent digital radio broadcast of PJ Harvey playing fourth on the bill on the Pyramid Stage on the Saturday, sandwiched between The Boo Radleys (fifth) and Jamiroquai (third). PJ was touring third album "To Bring You My Love" and four of the songs here are from that album.

01 C'mon Billy
02 Water
03 Hook
04 Working for the Man
05 Meet Ze Monsta
06 Long Snake Moan
07 Me-Jane
08 Goodnight

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 50Mb

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Paul Weller, Guilfest, Guildford, UK, 16th July 2005

2011-01-06T16:08:00.000Z

Excellent digital radio broadcast. Paul Weller was headlining the main stage on the Saturday of the three day festival. The set includes two songs from his 2005 album "As Is Now" which would be released October as well as ones from throughout his solo career and with The Jam.

01 From the Floorboards Up
02 Hung Up
03 Amongst the Butterflies
04 Wishing on a Star
05 The Start of Forever
06 That's Entertainment
07 You Do Something To Me
08 Foot of the Mountain
09 The Changingman
10 Broken Stones
11 Sunflower
12 A Town Called Malice

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 72Mb

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The Rolling Stones, USA, 1975

2011-01-05T17:58:00.001Z

Excellent digital radio broadcast. Location unknown. Also the exact date is unknown. Almost an hour of vintage Stones at the peak of their powers.

01 Brown Sugar
02 Happy
03 Gimme Shelter
04 Tumbling Dice
05 Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
06 Dancing With Mr D
07 Angie
08 Honky Tonk Woman
09 Midnight Rambler
10 Rip This Joint
11 Jumpin' Jack Flash
12 Street Fightin' Man

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 79Mb

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The Senseless Things, Glastonbury Festival, UK, 26th June 1992

2011-01-05T14:32:00.000Z

Excellent digital radio broadcast. The band were playing Glastonbury midway between the release of their second album "The First of Too Many" and the third "Empire of the Senseless." For a huge selection of Senseless Things live songs, rarities and b-sides, visit www.senselessthings.com and click on "sounds."

01 Hold It Down
02 Just One Reason
03 Just Flirting
04 Tempting Kate
05 Too Much Kissing
06 Easy To Smile

Source: Digital radio broadcast
Quality: Excellent
Encoding: 192kbps mp3
File size: 32Mb

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The Electric Light Orchestra, Guildhall, Portsmouth, 1976

2011-01-05T13:41:00.000Z

Excellent digital radio broadcast. This show was recorded following the release of the band's fifth album "Face the Music" and contains three songs from that, including the classic "Evil Woman."

01 Poker
02 Showdown
03 Poor Boy
04 Just the Same
05 Strange Magic
06 10538 Overture
07 Evil Woman

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

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Sex Pistols, Nashville Rooms, London, UK, 23rd April 1976

2010-11-18T15:19:00.001Z

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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Sex Pistols, Stowaway Club, Newport, UK, 23rd December 1977

2010-11-18T10:40:00.000Z

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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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Pandora's Box Festival, Rotterdam, Holland, 12th October 1985

2010-11-17T22:01:00.006Z

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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The Jam, Pink Pop Festival, Geleen, Holland, 26th May 1980

2010-11-17T19:57:00.001Z

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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The Sisters Of Mercy, Royal Albert Hall, London, UK, 18th June 1985

2010-11-17T16:08:00.000Z

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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The Specials, BBC Paris Theatre, London, UK, 15th December 1979

2010-10-21T21:11:00.000+01:00

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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Eddie and the Hot Rods, BBC Paris Theatre, London, UK, 1977

2010-10-11T10:57:00.000+01:00

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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The Good, The Bad and the Queen, The Round House, London, UK, 26th October 2006

2010-10-02T16:49:00.001+01:00

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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The Stranglers, BBC Paris Theatre, London, UK, 23rd March 1977

2010-09-27T10:05:00.001+01:00

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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Kasabian, Hull University, Hull, UK, 24th November 2004

2010-09-27T09:44:00.000+01:00

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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AC/DC, Paris Theatre, London, UK, 1976

2010-09-21T20:04:00.000+01:00

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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The Pretenders, Paris Theatre, London, UK, 1979

2010-09-21T09:27:00.003+01:00

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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Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation, Scala Cinema, London, UK, 27th April 2005

2010-09-21T00:53:00.001+01:00

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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Wreckless Eric, BBC Paris Theatre, London, 1980

2010-09-12T22:21:00.001+01:00

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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David Bowie, BBC Maida Vale Studios, London, UK, 18th September 2002

2010-08-23T20:44:00.000+01:00

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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The Jam, Tokyo, 14th June 1982

2010-08-12T20:02:00.000+01:00

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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Secret Affair, BBC Rock Goes To College, 1980

2010-08-12T17:45:00.001+01:00

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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The Jam, Reading University, Reading, UK, 16th February 1979

2010-08-12T14:12:00.000+01:00

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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Ian McCulloch, The Ritz, Manchester, UK, 5th November 1989

2010-08-11T21:46:00.001+01:00

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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Living Colour, Hallam University, Sheffield, UK, 7th April 1993

2010-08-11T19:57:00.000+01:00

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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Suede, Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury, UK, 27th June 2003

2010-08-11T16:25:00.000+01:00

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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Tom Robinson Band, Golders Green Hippodrome, London, UK, 1978

2010-08-11T15:41:00.002+01:00

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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The Datsuns, Boat Club, Nottingham, UK, 29th October 2002

2010-08-10T09:57:00.001+01:00

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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Sonic Youth, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK, 1st July 1998

2010-07-31T16:24:00.001+01:00

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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All About Eve, Hammersmith Odeon, London, 14th May 1988

2010-07-30T17:27:00.001+01:00

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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All About Eve, 1985/6 demos

2010-07-30T00:06:00.002+01:00

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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The Pretenders, Central Park, New York, USA, 9th August 1980

2010-07-29T18:55:00.000+01:00

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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Living Colour, Leeds University, Leeds, UK, 29th May 1991

2010-07-29T16:37:00.002+01:00

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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Elastica, Reading Festival, Reading, UK, 27th August 1999

2010-07-29T14:53:00.002+01:00

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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