Hugh Cornwell MTC Cologne 20th September 2015

Ok folks, here's a recent offering from Hugh, here playing in the fine city of Cologne last month. Many thanks are due to the original taper for sharing with this site!

FLAC: http://we.tl/ua5EPMdcvw

01. One Burning Desire
02. Leave Me Alone
03. Hot Cat On A Tin Roof
04. Break Of Dawn
05. Getting Involved
06. Under Her Spell
07. Beat Of My Heart
08. Lay Back On Me Pal
09. First Bus To Babylon
10. Please Don't Put Me On A Slow Boat To Trowbridge
11. Long Dead Train

01. Nice 'N' Sleazy
02. Skin Deep
03. Dagenham Dave
04. Duchess
05. Strange Little Girl
06. Golden Brown
07. Goodbye Toulouse
08. Nuclear evice
09. Hanging Around
10. Always The Sun
11. I Want One Of Those
12. Tank
13. Straighten Out
14. No More Heroes

Joy Division Paradiso Amsterdam 11th January 1980

Doin' the Ian Curtis

Joy Division

I had friends in the late '80's who were mad for Joy Division, but I never really got it. Admittedly my exposure to the band had at that time been limited to 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and the footage of 'Shadowplay' from a rehash of Granada's 'So It Goes' put together to mark the 10th anniversary of punk in 1986 (the latter was most noted by me for Ian Curtis' unique dance moves). 

Years later I watched the desperately bleak 'Control' and as is often the way with music films a 90 minute exposure to the band in the soundtrack sticks with you like a dozen ear worms..... and then I got it. I also got the 'Heart and Soul' box set the following week!

Highly recommended!

Anyway, earlier I posted the 'Too Much Fighting On The Dancefloor' documentary in which bass player Peter Hook reflects on the violence at Joy Division gigs and that prompted me to put this one up, apparently one of the best live recordings on the band.

MP3 (as received): http://we.tl/geqXp49JHN

01. Passover
02. Wilderness
03. Digital
04. Day Of The Lords
05. Insight
06. New Dawn Fades
07. Disorder
08. Transmission
09. Love Will Tear Us Apart
10. These Days
11. A Means To An End
12. 24 Hours
13. Shadowplay
14. She's Lost Control
15. Atrocity Exhibition
16. Atmosphere
17. Interzone

Too Much Fighting On The Dancefloor - A BBC Radio 4 Documentary

Here is a short documentary produced by BBC Radio 4 about tribalism in music and how such strong identification with a tribe frequently caused tensions that were vented in hundreds of gigs in the late '70's and into the '80s.

I started secondary school in 1980 and this was the first time I really became aware of such strong identification with one particular music or another. I thought it was a very positive thing, but then again having '....is a wanker' added to a Gary Numan logo on my exercise book wasn't up there dramatically with being razored at a Specials gig!

In those first years of senior school so many fashions and musical styles were represented, mod, punk, ska, metal, futurist, casual. It wasn't so unusual for a kid to leave school on a Friday as a mod and return on Monday morning as a casual! Finding yourself I think it's called.

I suppose I saw the very tail end of some of the violence at gigs, when the bands playing were overtly political they tended to draw the opposition to them. Luckily however, I was never at the receiving end of a beating (not at a gig anyway).

To see a fight at a gig now is a rare occurrence indeed. I think the last fight I saw was actually at the back of a Specials gig, but it was a comic scene, in a slapstick, Keystone cops way, a million miles away from a night out with Sham 69 in 1978!

MP3: http://we.tl/138jl3WMcy

'Ari Up Ari!'

Head On The Lino - Portraits On Lino Block

I found myself at a rare loose end the other day so I took the opportunity to create another blog site as a repository for various lino prints that I have been doing.

If you too find yourself at a loose end, please take a look.

http://headonthelino.blogspot.co.uk/

Straighten Out The Musician Leicester 3rd October 2015

A big draw for a lot of Stranglers fans, Straighten Out offer an view of the band in the earlier years, covering the material of the first 4 studio albums. Here I have to thank Evil_Teacup who has permitted this recording (originally on Dime) to be shared here. Cheers!

FLAC: http://we.tl/9xlvETX9su

Rattus Norvegicus

01. Sometimes
02. Goodbye Toulouse
03. London Lady
04. Princess of the Streets
05. Hanging Around
06. Peaches
07. Grip
08. Ugly
09.  Down In The Sewer

10. I Feel Like A Wog
11. The Raven
12. Peasant In The Big Shitty
13. Walk On By
14. Nice n Sleazy
15. Sweden
16. Thrown Away
17. Duchess
18. Nubiles
19. Dagenham Dave
20. Something Better Change
21. Curfew
22. Tank
23. 5 Minutes
24. No More Heroes
25. Straighten Out
26. Nuclear Device - Toiler On The Sea

NEW LINK - Bataclan Paris 6th October 1978

NEW LINK: Here

One of the best. One last punk roar before toning it down for The Raven.

The Damned Salle Moliere Lyon 6th October 1985

A good sounding set from The Damned's self confessed goth period. This set also features the sublime 'Limit Club' which I wish they would revive!

FLAC: http://we.tl/kdcOIXePBq

Artwork: http://we.tl/ApufMAoCds

01  Curtain Call
02  Shadow of Love
03  Neat Neat Neat
04  Wait For The Blackout
05  Grimly Fiendish
06  Stranger On The Town
07  Is It A Dream ?
08  Smash It Up
09  The Limit Club
10  I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)
11  Looking At You
12  Gun Fury
13  Street of Dreams