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.

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

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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

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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 

 

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!!!! 

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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.  

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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!

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.

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JOHNNY MARR - KCRW FM Session 2013 (Flac) *Special Post* #14

Special Post #14

This was recorded by the esteemed 'Nibbler' - a Dime regular and provider of many high quality KCRW sessions.

Original Notes:
Legendary guitarist for The Smiths, Johnny Marr recently performed several classics plus some of his new songs in the intimate setting of Apogee Studio. KCRW FM broadcast highlights from the evening on Morning Becomes Eclectic.

JOHNNY MARR
KCRW FM Radio Session
Broadcast on Monday November 18, 2013  

Session recorded at the Apogee Studio, Los Angeles Ca. 
Monday November 4, 2013

01. Intro
02. Upstarts
03. Sun And Moon
04. New Town Velocity
05. Lockdown
06. Interview
07. The Messenger
08. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want (The Smiths)
09. Bigmouth Strikes Again (The Smiths)
10. How Soon Is Now? (The Smiths)

Lineage: FM > Onkyo HT-R520 > Analog Out (RCA Plugs) > Phone Jacks In > Zoom H4n @ 16bit - 44.1 KHz > USB-2 > CD WAVE Tracking > TLH Checksums Flac.8)

 Notes:
A pre-recorded and edited session, the band is in great form

Johnny Marr - Vocals / Guitar 
James Doviak - Guitar / Keys 
Iwan Gronow - Bass
Jack Mitchell - Drums

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There are some brilliant photos from the show with an interview here:
http://blogs.kcrw.com/musicnews/2013/11/photos-johnny-marr-live-on-kcrw/