SHACK - BBC session 2024

Happy New Year everyone!

It was a bit of a shock to hear about this, just one hour into the programme via social media.
Like many I thought with Mick Head's new band, the Red Elastic Band currently touring, that Shack were gone for good.
It's not a repeat of a previous session but brand new in 2024!
The interview explains the ins and outs of this promotional appearance.

BBC6 Music - Riley & Coe

Marc Riley and Gideon Coe come together to play their music loves from every era and genre.
The boys welcome Shack live in session.

Shack - Soldier Man (6 Music Session, 18 Dec 2024)
Shack - Undecided (6 Music Session, 18 Dec 2024)
Mick & John Head - Interview
Shack - Butterfly (6 Music Session, 18 Dec 2024)
Shack - Comedy (6 Music Session, 18 Dec 2024)

time: 29:30

Lineage: BBC 6Music Ridley & Coe > BBC i-player UK stream > Audacity > Wav 16bit 44kHz >  Flac (8)
thebasement67 (18 December, 2024)

Note the UK i-player stream bitrate is 320k

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The John Peel Festive 50 - 2003

Merry Christmas to all visitors to the blog and a big thank you to all who have donated over the years. Have a great festive holiday.

This is my own recording of the last Festive 50 presented by John Peel. It was broadcast by BBC Radio 1 FM, over the festive period 2003

Recorded on a Sony Minidisc player, edited and burned to two CDr's. Ripped and extracted from those discs, some 21-years later.

Despite the missing 12-tracks this is a superb listen. If you are of a certain age, these programmes were an important part of the festive holidays. Sit back, have a drink and relive those times again. If you're too young, congratulations! Have a listen and catch up on some great tunes. (thebasement67)

Disc One:
Track #    Festive 50 placing    Band & Song
01.    #50. Vaults - I'm Going
02.    #47. Camera Obscura - Keep It Clean
03.    #43. Belle & Sebastian - Stay Loose
04.    #42. Golden Virgins - Renaissance Kids
05.    #41. Keys - Strength Of Strings
06.    #40. Broadcast - Pendulum
07.    #39. Cat Power - Werewolf
08.    #38. Ballboy - Born In The USA
09.    #35. M.A.S.S. - Live A Little
10.    #34. Black Keys - Have Love Will Travel
11.    #31. Amsterdam - Does This Train Stop On Merseyside?
12.    #30. Camera Obscura - Suspended From Class
13.    #26. The Fall - Green Eyed Loco Man
14.    #25. Futureheads - First Day
15.    #24. Party Of One - Shotgun Funeral
16.    #23. Ballboy - I Gave Up My Eyes
17.    #22. Undertones - Oh Please
18.    #21. Million Dead - I Am The Party
19.    #20. Darkness vs S.F.B. - I Believe In A Thing Called Love
20.    #19. Broken Family Band - At The Back Of The Chapel

#50 to #19

missing tracks:
#49. Freddy Fresh - You Can See The Paint
#48. Blizzard Boys - Ain't No Stoppin' This
#46. Super Furry Animals - Slow Life
#45. Grandmaster Gareth - Dr Dre Buys A Pint Of Milk
#44. Hyper Kinako - Tokyo Invention Registration Office
#37. Radiohead - There, There
#36. French - Gabriel In The Airport
#33. Neulander - Sex, God, Money
#32. Maher Shalal Hash Baz     Open Field
#29. Architecture In Helsinki - The Owls Go
#28. Half Man, Half Biscuit - It Makes The Room Look Bigger
#27. French - Porn Shoes

Disc Two:
Track #    Festive 50 placing    Band & Song

01.    #18. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
02.    #17. White Stripes - Black Math
03.    #16. Sluts Of Trust - Piece O' You
04.    #15. Vive Le Fete - Noir Desir
05.    #14. Ballboy - The Sash My Father Wore
06.    #13. Nina Nastasia - You, Her & Me
07.    #12. Melt Banana - Shield For Your Eyes
08.    #11. Belle & Sebastian - Step Into My Office, Baby
09.    #10. White Stripes - 7 Nation Army
10.    #09. C.S.L.M. - John Peel Is Not Enough
11.    #08. Crimea - Baby Boom
12.    #07. Half Man, Half Biscuit - Tending The Wrong Grave For 23 Years
13.    #06. Mogwai - Ratts Of The Capital
14.    #05. Bearsuit - Itsuko Got Married
15.    #04. Undertones - Thrill Me
16.    #03. Mogwai - Hunted By A Freak
17.    #02. The Fall - Theme From Sparta F.C.
18.    #01. Cinerama - Don't Touch That Dial

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The CURE - Jo Whiley show, BBC Radio 2FM - 31 October 2024

For an established band to receive so much attention and promotion from the BBC for their new release, is quite rare and a measure of how highly the band are regarded. 'Songs Of A Lost World' is their first album since the release of '4:13 Dream' in 2008. 

The Cure rose to the challenge and delivered a stunning session on the 'Huw Stephens show' and followed up with this immmaculate live performance at the Radio Theatre in London. 

With all the hype and excitement over these broadcasts a month ago, it was great to see that as a medium, radio is not dead and still has an important role in today's on-line community.

I recorded the complete Jo Whiley show, which included the band's set (minus encore) and the in-depth interview with Robert Smith and Jo that followed. 

Here it is presented in two parts, further down is the encore which was broadcast on the Zoe Ball morning show. Those four tracks were captured from the UK BBC i-player.   

BBC Radio 2FM - Thursday 31 October, 2024. 7-9pm: The complete Jo Whiley show (as broadcast)

7:00 to 8:20pm: The Cure perform in front of a small audience of lucky fans at the BBC Radio Theatre.

01. Alone* (8:26)           
02. Pictures Of You (7:21)       
03. A Fragile Thing* (4:37)       
04. High (3:45)           
05. A Night Like This (4:19)       
06. Lovesong (3:39)           
07. The Walk (3:36)           
08. Inbetween Days (3:00)  
09. Just Like Heaven (4:01) 
10. Edge Of The Deep Green Sea (8:00)
11. Endsong* (10:50)  

Lineage: BBC Radio 2 FM broadcast > Denon FM tuner TU-260L > Audacity > Wav 16bit 44kHz > dBpoweramp > Flac (8)

Show

Encore: not broadcast on Halloween night, see below
 

8:20 to 9pm: The Cure after-party with Jo Whiley

Jo hosts the Cure In Concert after-party and catches up with frontman Robert Smith.

12. Audience comments about the show > Siouxsie & The Banshees (5:36)
13. Robert Smith interview pt. 1 > NewDad (10:04)
14. Robert Smith interview pt. 2 > Beatles (11:13)
15. Robert Smith interview pt. 3 > Jimi Hendrix (5:26)
16. Robert Smith interview pt. 4 > David Bowie (6:16)
17. Robert Smith interview pt. 5 > Mogwai (6:27)
18. More comments about the show > The Cure (9:21)

Lineage: BBC Radio 2 FM broadcast > Denon FM tuner TU-260L > Audacity > Wav 16bit 44kHz > dBpoweramp > Flac (8)

Recorded from the FM broadcast and editing / tracking in Audacity from
thebasement67 (Oct 31 2024)

Interview

The encore from the Radio Theatre show is available on the link below. Track listing as follows:

E01. Lullaby           
E02. Friday I'm In Love       
E03. Close To Me           
E04. Why Can't I Be You       

Lineage: BBC 2 Radio Zoe Ball morning show > I-Sound recorder for Windows 7/10 > BBC i-player UK stream > Wav 16bit 44kHz > TLH > Flac (8)

Note the UK i-player stream bitrate is 320k

Encore 

 

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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