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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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