I suprised myself today when I realised that at no time in this site's lifetime have I posted this brilliant session. Having got over the nostalgia bit of their 1989 reunion tour of the UK and the US, it was back down to the age old rock 'n' roll business of making records. The new material from the band had a tricky birth. In 1991 an album was near completed in terms of demos when the decision was made to scrap it. The album was quite hot property for some years... it is available now having seen a release a few years back. I do not know what the band's gripe was with it, it had some really good material on it, some of which saw the light of day whilst some of it was sunk, until the recent release. The three new tracks 'Alive Tonight', 'Last To Know' and 'Who Will Help Me To Forget?' played in this session featured on that aborted 1991 album, but did also see an official release at the time as a single along with the track 'Successful Street'.
According to Pete, this Radio 5 session was the first live session that the band had ever done, all of the numerous others that the band had done over their career to date having been pre-recorded.
This is one of two Buzzcocks' BBC sessions I have that were for some reason omtted from the 1998 'BBC Sessions' CD release or the excellent 'Late For The Train (Live And In Session 1989 - 2016)' box set of 2021.
For the record, the album that did see the light of day in 1993 in the form of 'Trade Test Tramsmissions' was just fantastic. For me it is the best 'comeback' album by any band!
FLAC: https://we.tl/t-MF1rp3XWM6
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-jo0dSiZc2E
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