Friday, 1 November 2024

The Cure - BBC 6Music session: Halloween 2024

Unsurprisingly the Cure - BBC Sessions has shot to the most looked at post on the blog, given the events of the last few days. Those in the UK have been well served by the BBC over Halloween with the broadcast of a session on BBC 6Music and a live performance in front of a small audience broadcast on BBC Radio 2FM.

This post is for those Cure fans that live outside the UK. The quality of the UK digital station BBC 6Music is higher in the UK than for those outside. I've recorded the live broadcast on BBC 6Music and present it here for Cure fans around the world.

 


The Cure at the BBC, 2024
Programme broadcast on Thursday 31 October, 2024

BBC 6Music 5-30pm: Huw Stephens with the Cure's Robert Smith In Conversation.

BBC 6Music 6-7pm: 6Music Artist Collection: The Cure / Huw Stephens presents an exclusive and intimate session from the Cure.

Plainsong / Last Dance / I Can Never Say Goodbye *  Burn / And Nothing Is Forever * / At Night / A Forest / All I Ever Am * / Prayers for Rain / Disintegration   

Tracks 1,2,9 & 10 - Disintegration, 1989 / Tracks 3, 5 & 8 - Songs For A Lost World, 2024 / Track 4 - Movie Soundtrack: The Crow 1994 / Tracks 6 & 7 - Seventeen Seconds, 1980

The Huw Stephens programme began at 4pm. The relevant Cure section is complete and was broadcast just after the news at 5-30pm, and is in two parts - the interview followed by the session.

Recorded from the live BBC 6Music broadcast on the UK i-player (which has a higher bit-rate, 320k+ than the rest of the world)

Recorded: thebasement67 (Thursday October 31, 2024)

Lineage: i-sound recorder for Windows 7/10 > BBC i-player stream (UK) > Wav 16bit 44.1kHz > dbpoweramp > Flac (8)

Interview 

Session 


I have also recorded the complete Jo Whiley programme broadcast on BBC Radio 2 FM also on the 31 October, 2024. This will be the next upload.

Sunday, 20 October 2024

Bootlegs of the Year 2015-2022

7th Edition including 2022

 


This document was first compiled in 2015 after receiving numerous emails, enquiring as to where bootlegs #1-100 posted on site, could be found. (many of the links were lost in 2016, see Downloads box on top right-hand side panel). 
 
This is the latest, the seventh edition of 'Bootlegs of the Year'. It incorporates a further fifty-eight boots downloaded during the last twenty-four months.
 
This edition now includes 332 bootlegs, the best I have downloaded since 2015. The 178-page book will point you in the right direction, in finding the sites I have used and most importantly the web addresses where they can be located. 
Although it concentrates on the best bootlegs I have downloaded in the last eight years, the same websites and addresses noted in the book are where the majority of the bootlegs in the 100 Greatest listing, originated from. The posts #1 to #100 were mostly made from downloads prior to 2015. 
 
To sum up, it includes the best bootlegs I have downloaded in the preceding years, 2015 to 2022. Having discarded numerous titles, these are the best from that time frame.

I have not provided a sound quality rating as virtually all are of sufficient high quality to rate around 5 out of 5, some are worthy of 5+ like the best official releases.

As you can imagine, it took some time and effort to pull this all together. What to include and just as importantly what to leave out, has taken considerable thought and listening hours, enjoyable nonetheless. So if you are a fan of any of the artists featured, then I can confidently state that you will definitely enjoy the bootlegs that have been chosen.
 
If you would like a copy of this document, it's only £5 GBP via the donate button (see the top right-hand bar - above blog archive). You do not need a paypal account.
 
Included in the main body of the text of the document are details of the 332 bootlegs downloaded, and where to find them by the following artists:                 
 
8 years - 177 different artists

RYAN ADAMS
THE AFGHAN WHIGS
ARCADE FIRE (3)

ARCTIC MONKEYS
ASWAD
THE AVALANCHES
THE BAND
BEASTIE BOYS

BEATLES (2)
BECK (2)
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND
BELLE & SEBASTIAN
BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE (3)
BJORK
BLACK KEYS
BLONDIE
THE BLUE NILE
BLUR
JOE BONAMASSA (4)
DAVID BOWIE (6)
BROADCAST (3)
BUCKINGHAM NICKS
BYRDS
CALEXICO (4)

CALEXICO / IRON & WINE
CAN
JOHNNY CASH
CAT POWER (3)
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (5)
THE CHURCH
THE CLASH (2)

COCTEAU TWINS (2)
LEONARD COHEN (2)
LLOYD COLE / THE COMMOTIONS (2)

RY COODER
ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (3)
CRAMPS (2)
CRANBERRIES
CREAM 
THE CURE (3)
DEAD CAN DANCE (2)
DELTA 5
DEPECHE MODE
DEREK & THE DOMINOS

DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
DJ DANGERMOUSE

BOB DYLAN (4)
EAGLES
STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES (3)
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (2)
ELECTRAFIXION
EURYTHMICS
EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL
THE FALL
ALI FARKA TOURE & RY COODER
FEEDER
FELT
THE FLAMING LIPS
FLEET FOXES
FLEETWOOD MAC (5)
FONTAINES DC
RORY GALLAGHER (4)
GANG OF FOUR (2)
GENESIS (2)
BETH GIBBONS & RUSTIN MAN
RHIANNON GIDDENS
DAVID GILMOUR (2)
GRATEFUL DEAD (2)
GUNS 'N' ROSES
PJ HARVEY (2)
INXS

JANE'S ADDICTION
JIMI HENDRIX (3)
THE JAM
JAPAN (2)
THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN (2)
RICKIE LEE JONES
JONI MITCHELL (2)

THE KILLS
KRAFTWERK (5)
LAMBCHOP (2)
LED ZEPPELIN (8)
THE LEMONHEADS
LENNY KRAVITZ
LINTON KWESI JOHNSON (2)

LONE JUSTICE
MANIC STREET PREACHERS
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS (4)
LAURA MARLING
MASSIVE ATTACK
CURTIS MAYFIELD (2)
MAZZY STAR (2)
JOHN MELLENCAMP
MISTY IN ROOTS (3)
JONI MITCHELL
MOGWAI 
THE NATIONAL (3)
NEW BOHEMIANS (WITH EDIE BRICKELL)
NEW ORDER (12)
STEVIE NICKS
NINE INCH NAILS
NIRVANA (3)
GARY NUMAN
OASIS
THE OFFSPRING
ORBITAL
OUTCASTS
PAVEMENT
PEARL JAM (4)
PENTANGLE
LEE PERRY & V/A
TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS (5)
PIL (2)
PINK FLOYD (2)
PIXIES (2)
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
ROBERT PLANT (4)
POGUES
THE POLICE (3)
IGGY POP
PRIMAL SCREAM (2)
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE (2)
RADIOHEAD (7)
BONNIE RAITT
LOU REED
REM (4)
DAVID RODIGAN'S REGGAE SHOW: PRINCE BUSTER

ROLLING STONES (2)
RUSH
SADE
SANTANA
SCIENTIST
SEBADOH
THE SHINS (2)
SIMPLE MINDS (2)
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
THE SLITS
SMASHING PUMPKINS
ELLIOTT SMITH
PATTI SMITH (2)
SONIC YOUTH (3)
SPARKLEHORSE
SPARKS
SPECIALS
SPIRITUALIZED (2)
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
STEELY DAN
STING (2)
THE STRANGLERS
 
THE STROKES (2)
JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROS
SUICIDE
DAVID SYLVIAN & ROBERT FRIPP
TALKING HEADS

TEARDROP EXPLODES (2)
TELEVISION (4)
THIN LIZZY
GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS (2)
TINARIWEN      
TRIFFIDS
UNDERWORLD (2)
VARIOUS ARTISTS (3)
LAURA VEIRS
TOM VERLAINE (4)
THE VERVE (2)
WAH! HEAT
TOM WAITS 
THE WATERBOYS (2)
JACK WHITE
THE WHO
LUCINDA WILLIAMS (2)
X

THE YARDBIRDS
YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS (2)
NEIL YOUNG (11) 
 


The PDF document comprises:
  • 178 pages A4
  • Word count 108,343
  • 332 bootleg images
Full details have been included for each bootleg such as:
  • Venue
  • Date of performance
  • Type of recording - soundboard, FM, from the audience, etc.
  • Lineage
  • Running time
  • Website address
  • Complete track listings
  • Track timings
  • Informative comments about each bootleg
  • Index

      If you would like a copy of this document, it's only £5 GBP via the donate button, you do not require a paypal account.

      An audio sampler is available on a preceding post: Bootleg Promo. The selected tracks are from bootlegs that never made the cut for the final document, but they will give you an idea of the sound quality I look for.

      page samples above
       


      Thursday, 26 September 2024

      PJ HARVEY - Rock en Seine Festival, France 2024 (Flac)

      Polly Jean Harvey is now ten studio albums into her career. This festival set list includes tracks from six of those. Surprisingly there are no tracks performed from 'Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea' (2000) and her penultimate (to date) album 'The Hope Six Demolition Project' (2016). 'Uh Huh Her' (2004) and 'White Chalk' (2007) are also overlooked, although the latter is perhaps not festival friendly due to it's intimate nature. 

      As is usual for live touring acts the most current album is well promoted in performance. PJ also includes a generous quantity of her 90's classics and one solitary track from her collaboration with John Parish, on Black Hearted Love from 'A Woman a Man Walked By' (2009).

      Excellent quality and a stunning performance from the band

      PJ HARVEY
      Sunday 25 August 2024
      Rock en Seine, Domaine national de Saint-Cloud,
      Saint-Cloud, France.


      Setlist:
      01. Prayer at the Gate       
      02. The Nether-Edge       
      03. I Inside the Old Year Dying   
      04. The Glorious Land       
      05. Let England Shake       
      06. The Words That Maketh Murder   
      07. A Child's Question, August       
      08. I Inside the Old I Dying       
      09. Send His Love to Me       
      10. 50ft Queenie           
      11. Black Hearted Love       
      12. Angelene           
      13. The Garden           
      14. The Desperate Kingdom of Love   
      15. Man-Size           
      16. Dress               
      17. Down by the Water       
      18. To Bring You My Love     

      Source : FM ana (Technics ST-GT350)
      FM -> HD (wav)

      Taped and splitted : Kwave 22.12.3 (KDE Frameworks version 5.107.0)
      FLAC 1.4.3 with --best

      With thanks to the original uploader, Tulum

      LINK



      Monday, 12 August 2024

      TELEVISION - Roseland Ballroom, NYC. 2004 (Flac)

       

      The Television concert archives show that the band performed 19 shows in 2004, taking in a European tour including an appearance at the Glastonbury Festival. 

      This show was the final date of the year and the only one in their home city and country. It's an excellent soundboard and includes the mighty unreleased song 'Persia'.

      Television
      Roseland Ballroom, N.Y.C.
      2 October 2004


      The Band:
      Tom Verlaine - guitar, lead vocals
      Richard Lloyd - guitar, backing vocals
      Fred Smith - bass, backing vocals
      Billy Ficca - drums

      Set List:
      01. intro
      02. Swells (1:24) >
      03. 1880 Or So (7:25)
      04. tuning & talking #1
      05. Balloon (4:42)
      06. tuning & talking #2
      07. Squaggle (3:11)
      08. tuning & talking #3
      09. Prove It (5:27)
      10. tuning & talking #4
      11. Call Mr. Lee (6:01)
      12. The Sea (8:42)
      13. tuning & talking #5
      14. Persia (13:23)
      15. tuning & talking #6
      16. band intros

      17. Marquee Moon (10:47)

      Total Time: 68:11



      Recording Info:
      Sbd > DAT recorder (Maybe DAT > DAT clone)
      DAT > CDR > CDR
      CDR files extracted, edited & mastered in Fission


      LINK

      Sunday, 11 August 2024

      RORY GALLAGHER

      July's post was abandoned as events overtook the work being done for it. I had planned on posting the unreleased BBC sessions by Rory Gallagher but discovered an official set was being released in October. It certainly looks definitive.

      Details of it are here:

      Rory Gallagher BBC Sessions 


       

      Sunday, 16 June 2024

      ROXY MUSIC - Live in Paris, 1974 (Flac)

      Today it's difficult to imagine the controversy caused by the sleeve of Roxy's fourth album. Two German women in their underwear posing in front of evergreen foliage (Constanze Karoli and Eveline Grunwald). In the US. Atlantic had to disguise the sleeve in an opaque green shrink wrap after major chain stores threatened to boycott the album.

      The sessions for 'Country Life' were fraught with pressure as the band needed to finish the album before the UK tour began in mid-September 1974 to maximise the promotional effect on the album sales.

      Bryan Ferry recalls that,
      "We were in the studio constantly right up to the beginning of the tour. We just about finished it by the skin of our teeth. About three-quarters of the way through it, I just had to get out of town, so I went to Portugal for two weeks to try to finish off some of the songs. I went with Eric Boman the photographer, and that's where we did the album cover, about a hundred yards from the ocean at 3 a.m....it was a stroke of luck. The girls were Roxy fans, actually the only albums they'd brought with them were 'These Foolish Things' and 'Another Time, Another Place'. So it was business. I mean - they were very keen to do the job."

      The tour began on schedule, with all tickets for every date having sold out within a week. Ferry adopted a new image, a pseudo military uniform - half US Air force and half Third Reich, with the tie tucked into the tunic at one end and jackboots at the other.

      A week into the tour, the first single 'All I Want Is You' was released and made #12 in the UK chart.
      The delayed album was finally released at the beginning of November, when most of it had been previewed on tour.

      The press praised the album highly with NME's Nick Kent reviewing that "While 'Stranded' had been a 'flawed meisterwerk' highlighted by gems of the calibre of 'Mother of Pearl' and 'A Song For Europe', 'Country Life' was in a consistently higher league throughout, failing only to reach those twin peaks of excellence from the previous release on any individual tracks." He noted 'The Thrill of It all', Three and Nine' and particularly 'Casonova' as the stongest tracks.

      This recording from the radio station Europe 1 reel to reel tapes, includes seven tracks - one a piece from the first three albums and four from 'Country Life'. The sound quality is excellent and this is easily among the best early Roxy live recordings. See the official release 'Viva' for live recordings from the UK tour mentioned above. After touring Europe the band took a break and toured extensively in 1975, visiting the USA, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.


      LDB Master Series #300

      ROXY MUSIC
      Paris, Palais des Congrès
      November, 27 1974
      Master Reel to reel


      01. Out of the Blue
      02. A Song For Europe
      03. Three and Nine
      04. If It Takes All Night
      05. In Every Dream Home A Heartache
      06. If There is Something (incl. Violin Solo Eddie Jobson)
      07. All I Want Is You

      Time: 43:34

      Lineage: Europe 1 original reels > Teac A3340S > HD > SoundForge 7.0 > CD Wave > FLAC Frontend (level 6)

      Bryan Ferry - vocals, keyboards
      Eddie Jobson - strings, keyboards, vocals
      Andy MacKay - saxophone, oboe
      Phil Manzanera - guitar, vocals
      Paul Thompson - drums
      John Wetton - bass, vocals

      From LDB's original notes:

      "For volume 300 I had to find something special. And I think this Is something special. Some time ago I had access to quite a few master reels from Europe 1 that were saved from the trash some time ago. The Santana 71 show that I have already seeded was part of it. Unfortunately the reels were mixed up and only a few complete. But the historical value is very high. This is one I managed to have it transferred using a revox player. I have many reels, probably the most amazing one being the Jimi Hendrix Olympia October 1968, which I was told has already been released somewhere. Europe 1 was one of those stations that used to record many shows, in particular from the Olympia. My belief is that they were doing a king of matrix by both capturing the soundboard but having also a few onstage microphones.

      This comes from the 1974 tour. On the reel it is marked Olympia but it is possible that it was a mistake by the engineers and honestly I trust more the Roxy Music experts over here. So I have updated the venue and date. Thanks for the help.  It sounds amazing, as you can imagine. This is my gift to you for you to celebrate volume 300." Enjoy!!!! 


      LINK

      Sunday, 2 June 2024

      Reposted links

      As mentioned above I have re-posted a few links.

      Please be sensible and use these for your own personal use. This will be the last time they are posted, think of those coming after you. Thanks for your understanding.  

      #51

      #57

      #63

      #82

      Use the search box and enter the hash tag and number you require for each post. More will be upped and I don't have the time to link each seperately at the moment. Enjoy!

      Sunday, 11 February 2024

      THE BODYSNATCHERS - John Peel session #1 1980 (Flac)

      The Bodysnatchers - John Peel Session #1
      Recorded at Maida Vale, London: 8 April 1980


      01. What's This
      02. Happy Time Tune
      03. The Boiler
      04. The Ghost Of The Vox Continental

      This is the Bodysnatcher's first session for DJ John Peel's legendary BBC Radio 1 show. It was broadcast three times in 1980. This recording is from the first broadcast on 14 April, 1980. The session was repeated on 15 May 1980 and also included in the 2-tone special broadcast on 9 June 1980. That whole show is available on the John Peel Wiki.

      Notable for the early version of 'The Boiler' Rhoda's vocals are pretty much word for word, the same as on the Special A.K.A released version. What it lacks is the sinister edge that Jerry's cinematic organ arrangement brought with it.

      Now it's possible to compare and contrast such a hugely poignant and important song, as it evolved between the writing and recording.

      Further information is available in the download notes included with the audio files..

      All of the initial 2-Tone first sessions have been officially released, The Specials, The Beat, Madness & The Selecter, this is the only one that hasn't. It's excellent quality and I've passed on the recording as found and resisted editing any of the speech or fades used.


      LINK




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