An anniversary to mark here, JJ's first run of 'Songs and Stories alone and acoustic' on this night twenty three years ago! I saw a couple of these shows, firstly at the Union Chapel (drinking beer in church pews... that felt strange!) and then at Christmas in my home town of Burgess Hill (that's on the site too).
FLAC: https://we.tl/t-GsuwdyId8f
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-3Joj9glgAm
Here's a nice sounding gig from Down Under in October 2004 again showcasing the best of 'Norfolk Coast'
MP3 (as received): https://we.tl/t-DGPcvkp2Sx
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-3osWaQQp3P
01. Waltzinblack
Numan's mini residency shows at Camden's Electric Ballroom to mark his 998th, 999th and 1000th gig an be found here:
So, rounding of my belated mini-'Black And White' thread and since it was pointed out that the band's appearance in the Swedish city of Orebro was missing from the site I asked DomP is he had a good version as mine was kaput. Sure enough Dom had it and had done some tidying up of the files, including speed correction. The result sounds pretty damn good to me.
Just 5 days before the release of their new album, The Stranglers were back in Sweden and just as belligerent, if not more so, than on their visit the previous year. At the beginning, Hugh addresses the audience in Swedish (I would be interested to know just what it was that he said to them). Elsewhere in the gig he berates the crowd for being boring and static... 'You're sitting on your fuckin' arses like its some TV show, yeah!'
Many thanks to Dom for a gem!
FLAC: https://we.tl/t-XDz7HjpKRN
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-907rvMXEQ6
Having sorted out by storage/drive issues I wanted to revisit a kind of sister site to this one called 'Listen To The Sirens' which operates in a similar way to this one only it is focused on Gary Numan and Tubeway Army. Should you have any tendency towards Numan (and there are some on here!) please take a look.
Today we learned of the loss of another musician that had a hand in scoring the soundtrack of our lives. Algy Ward, formerly of The Damned has died. Although his tenure in the band was relatively short lived, he played on 'Machine Gun Etiquette', arguably the band's greatest contribution to vinyl. Some will argue that 'Damned Damned Damned' or 'Strawberries' is top of the pile, and that's fine, but for me The Damned of '79 vintage were the band at their most raucous and outrageous and they had the songs to match.
Here is an example of the 'anarchy, chaos and destruction' that the band wrought in 1979!
FLAC: https://we.tl/t-pfsfhyFVp3
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-pBBLQwjJSI
Look closely on the 'Later' footage and you may spot a short critter in shorts and a Raven T-shirt!
DVD Iso: https://we.tl/t-Kf4GpoCFLG
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-9qM6qADkb8
