Pete Shelley 70 - Buzzcocks GLR Session 13th April 1994

 

My Facebook feed informed me that yesterday would have been Pete Shelley's 70th birthday. Yesterday, I also received my copy of 'Yesterday Is Not Here: Radio Sessions 1979-1983'. A nice coincidence. I do not usually bother so much with Record Store Day. I struggle to see the relevance of a rerelease of an album for £30 just to have it on luminous vinyl. Such releases, if offering nothing new musically, seem to be of interest only from a monitary perspective... something to be held on to as an investment or to be touted on eBay at twice the price a week after RSD. That it helps independent Record outlets I would of course applaud though. This radio sessions album does however offer something new... to my ears at least and hearing Pete's Mancunian tones that has put me in a Buzzcocks mood. 

Here's a GLR (BBC Greater London Radio) session from 13th April 1994.

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