The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - BBC Sessions 1968

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Originally posted August 21, 2010

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown   
BBC Sessions 1968 

Soundboards/Various Sources @256

The Story of Arthur Brown

 

Track List:
01 - Fire Poem (BBC 1968)
02 - Fire (BBC 1968)
03 - I Put A Spell On You(BBC 1968)
04 - Child Of My Kingdom(BBC 1968)
05 - Come And Buy (BBC 1968)
06 - Devil's Grip (Single)
07 - What's Happening (single B side of Nightmare)
08 - Space Plucks Dem Bones (from Lost Ears)
09 - You Don't Know (flexidisc)
10 - 'The Water Suite' (Listed as untitled)
11 - Gypsy (Kingdon Come Rehersal with Drum Machine)

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Playboy Playmate December 1968 - Cynthia Myers

aka - Ms Holy Toledo!

Joy Division - The Complete BBC Recordings

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Originally posted April 18, 2010

 Joy Division - The Complete BBC Recordings
 Studio recordings @flac & 320

Out of Print - available new for around $35-$75

Track List:
01. Exercise One" (Peel Session)
02. Insight" (Peel Session)
03. She's Lost Control" (Peel Session)
04. Transmission" (Peel Session)
05. Love Will Tear Us Apart" (Peel Session)
06. Twenty Four Hours" (Peel Session)
07. Colony" (Peel Session)
08. Sound of Music" (Peel Session)
09. Transmission" (live)
10. She's Lost Control" (live)
11. Ian Curtis & Stephen Morris interviewed by Richard Skinner

 

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Complete BBC (flac) 

mp3@320 

 

Echo and the Bunnymen - BBC 1988

Echo & the Bunnyman - BBC Live 1988 

Empire Theatre, January 11th, 1988

 Broadcast January 23, 1988

Excellent FM Source @320


Really strong show. Don't miss this one!

 

Track List:
01 Rescue
02 Heaven Up Here
03 With A Hip
04 Bombers Bay
05 All I Want
06 Back Of Love
07 Crocodiles
08 Zimbo
09 Seven Seas
10 Bedbugs And Ballyhoo
11 The Cutter
12 Show Of Strength
13 Lips Like Sugar
14 Thorn Of Crowns

 

 

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BBC '88

 

Bryan Ferry - Live St. Luke's London 2007

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Originally posted December 24, 2015 & June 30, 2018

Bryan Ferry - LSO St. Luke's Music 

Education Centre

February 10, 2007
London, England

TV Broadcast source @320

(First broadcast on BBC 1 2007-02-23. Rebroadcast on BBC4 2007-08-10)

Set List:

1-The 'In' Crowd

2-All Along the Watchtower

3-Slave to Love

4-Make You Feel My Love

5-Let's Stick Together

6-Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

7-Don't Stop the Dance

8-Gates of Eden

9-Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

10-I Put a Spell on You

11-A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall

12-Jealous Guy

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Debora Harry - Live London 1989 (Updated)

Debora Harry - Town & Country Club
London, England
November 30, 1989
BBC FM source @flac 

 

Corrected Date and Set List Thanks to Derek!

Corrected Set List File HERE 

 

Set List: 

 

 

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Elvis Costello / Kid Jensen Show, June 9, 1983

Elvis Costello

Kid Jensen Show
BBC Radio One
June 9, 1983
Maida Vale Studios, London

01 Elvis Costello - Danger Zone
02 Elvis Costello - Big Sister's Clothes-Stand Down Margaret
03 Elvis Costello - Pills and Soap
04 Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding

From the wiki at the Elvis Costello fan page:
https://www.elviscostello.info/

a. Danger Zone official release on Punch The Clock (Rhino reissue)
b. Big Sister's Clothes/Stand Down Margaret official release on Punch The Clock (Rhino reissue)
c. Pills And Soap unreleased
d. Shipbuilding unreleased

EC (vocal, guitar), Steve Nieve (keyboards), Bruce Thomas (bass), Pete Thomas (drums)

Session for the Kid Jensen show on BBC Radio One. Broadcast on Tuesday June 21, 1983.

Pills And Soap was re-broadcast in 2016.

This was stuck on the end of a Billy Bragg tape that I'm working on (and will have up here at VW soon...).

It's a bit hissy but not terrible.  Of note:  check out the version of Pills and Soap!

While two here have been officially release (and you probably bought them twenty years ago...here you get the before and after remarks from the disc jockey.

https://mega.nz/file/2FhHVC7R#GpCuEf7LK5XaOYkKRS1i0nPCNysSMH0KBeWcsCU7oxI

Emmylou Harris / New Victoria Theatre, London, England Nov. 15, 1975

Emmylou Harris
New Victoria Theatre
London, England
Best of the BBC Rock Hour
recorded on November 15, 1975
(confirmed by newspaper review)

01 Brian Matthew - Best of the BBC Rock Hour Intro
02 Emmylou Harris & the Hot Band - Feelin' Single, Seein' Double
03 Emmylou Harris & the Hot Band - Amarillo
04 Emmylou Harris & the Hot Band - Together Again
05 Emmylou Harris & the Hot Band - Return of The Grievous Angel
06 Emmylou Harris & the Hot Band - Bluebird Wine
07 Emmylou Harris & the Hot Band - Band introductions
08 Emmylou Harris & the Hot Band - Wheels
09 Emmylou Harris & the Hot Band - Till I Gain Control Again
10 Emmylou Harris & the Hot Band - Ooh Las Vegas
11 Emmylou Harris & the Hot Band - Boulder To Birmingham
12 Emmylou Harris & the Hot Band - Shop Around
13 Emmylou Harris & the Hot Band - Hickory Wind
14 Brian Matthew - Best of the BBC Rock Hour Outro

Another tape I got in trade back when it all went through the U.S. Postal Service.

Often attributed to November 25, 1975..but that date is incorrect.

Possibly sourced from BBC Rock Hour #4 with the number 011779 on the tape box, indicating a broadcast date of January 17, 1979.  That matches with Brian Matthews dating the concert as "three years ago."

Tracks from the show were released on:
Emmylou Harris And The Hot Band – Stereo Pop Special-117
BBC Transcription Services – CN 2506/S
which adds If I Could Only Win Your Love, and Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down

There's a version at Guitars101 with even more tracks, and the note:

"The date is not quite correct: November 25 1975 was a Tuesday and my memory says this concert was on a Sunday. The generally accepted date seems to be November 15, a Saturday, so I may be slightly misremembering, but it was definitely a weekend.

Great gig and especially memorable for James Burton's solo in "Shop Around" which was played with his guitar held behind his head. Saw an interview with Emmylou a little later and she said he must have been really enjoying himself that night, as he only did this when he was.

I believe this was her first European appearance anywhere. The BBC later broadcast an hour from the show - my tape long disintegrated - but this is not that a) because it's longer and b) because the songs are not all the same ones - I seem to remember Cash on the Barrelhead was included and it's not here"

Using that eyewitness account as a guide, I confirmed the correct date is November 15, 1975 by finding a newspaper review.

https://mega.nz/file/CQwFHSIC#1zZ5Lp8b70qS5Fkiq6RHQ_yPXw99HrLIaMwgaxY9Fz8

Prefab Sprout / Reading University 1985

Prefab Sprout
Reading University
Live At Reading University, Reading, UK 1985-November-16

Sourced from 
In Concert-381
BBC Transcription Services CN 4747/S
released Jan. 11, 1986

01 Richard Skinner - Intro
02 Prefab Sprout - Moving The River
03 Prefab Sprout - Cars and Girls
04 Prefab Sprout - Bonny
05 Prefab Sprout - Faron Young
06 Prefab Sprout - Hallelujah
07 Prefab Sprout - Lions In My Own Garden (Exit Someone)
08 Prefab Sprout - Wicked Things
09 Prefab Sprout - Goodbye Lucille #1
10 Prefab Sprout - Tiffany's
11 Prefab Sprout - When Love Breaks Down
12 Prefab Sprout - When The Angels
13 Prefab Sprout - Appetite

Backing Vocals – Wendy Smith
Bass – Martin McAloon
Drums – Neil Conti
Guitar, Vocals – Paddy McAloon
Keyboards – Michael Graves
Presenter – Richard Skinner

The story behind this tape is the guy I was trading with had an actual copy of the BBC transcription disc.  It sounds like it, but unless I've done it myself I'm never 100% sure.  The songs on my tape had some vinyl surface noise, so it's a believable story.  I've gone through it and cleaned the clicks 'n' pops, so it sounds pretty darned good.

"Cars and Girls" came out over two years later in March of 1988 on "From Langley Park to Memphis."  "Wicked Things" and "Tiffany's" wouldn't show up until "Protest Songs" in June 1989... three and a half years after this was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 1.

https://mega.nz/file/6chz3TLI#lj-dJCDYIzce6gX52fqiIyZXQ4Qi-y-uN0OAj2K4AaQ

Elvis Costello - Live London, UK. 1980

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Originally posted February 10, 2014

Elvis Costello - Hope & Anchor 

London, UK

May 14, 1980
BBC FM Source @ 320

 

Setlist:

01. intro
02. Temptation
03. Help Me
04. I Stand Accused
05. One More Heartache
06. Secondary Modern
07. (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
08. Little Sister
09. High Fidelity
10. Lipstick Vogue
11. Waiting For The End Of The World
12. Don't Look Back
13. Girls Talk
14. Watching The Detectives
15. You Belong To Me

Encore
16. Oliver's Army
17. Mystery Dance
18. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding?
19. Pump It Up---outro



Elvis Costello - Guitar,Vocals
Martin Belmont - Guitar
Bruce Thomas - Bass
Pete Thomas - Drums

 Thanks to Tony the Tiger at the once famous Nargo The Bort's Deviant Subculture



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Kirsty MacColl / BBC - June 26, 1991

Kirsty Macoll with Billy Bragg
BBC
June 26, 1991

01 Nicky Campbell - Intro
02 Kirsty MacColl - They Don't Know About Us (studio)
03 Nicky Campbell - Interview
04 Kirsty MacColl - There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis
05 Nicky Campbell - Interview
06 Kirsty MacColl - Walk Right Back
07 Nicky Campbell - Interview
08 Kirsty MacColl - Darling Lets Have Another Baby
09 Nicky Campbell - Interview
10 Clash - snippet of Clash song
11 Nicky Campbell - Interview
12 Kirsty MacColl - A New England
13 Nicky Campbell - Outro

The band:
Kirsty MacColl
Phillip Rambow
Robert David "Lu" Edmonds
Billy Bragg
Guy Pratt

Tracks 4, 6, 8 and 12 were released on What Do Pretty Girls Do (1998, on Hux Records).  It's out of print but copies are available on Ebay; the shipping will cost you more than the CD. Presumably the CD sound is better than my old cassette, but here get you the INTERVIEW, too.  

The interview is fun; they're all clearly having a great time.

Do I have to tell you?  It's flac files of wavs, digitized from one o' my old cassettes I got in trade when we used to send this stuff in padded packages via international mail.

https://mega.nz/file/2YA0wbbS#1uqhE-x-nYXKosGdP1wWWsYW-DLXgCcTnTyyBNUx2Vw

Billy Bragg / BBC Radio One - October 27, 1984

Billy Bragg
BBC Radio One
October 27, 1984
with the Hank Wangford Band, and Wiggy

01 Billy Bragg - BBC Intro
02 Billy Bragg - The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
03 Billy Bragg - From A Vauxhall Velox
04 Billy Bragg - It Says Here
05 Billy Bragg - The Island of No Return
06 Billy Bragg - A Lover Sings
07 Billy Bragg - Bill talks about Subbuteo
08 Billy Bragg - Which Side Are You On
09 Billy Bragg - Between The Wars
10 Billy Bragg - A New England
11 Billy Bragg - Intro to A-13, Trunk Road To The Sea
12 Billy Bragg - A-13, Trunk Road To The Sea
13 Billy Bragg - BBC Outro

This is a tape I received in trade back in the 1980s.  Back then...before the release on LP of BBC sessions, before the internet...tracking this stuff down required typing lists of tapes for trade, paying for international postage, and mailing them off to addresses in England or Japan that were posted in the classified ads in the back of Goldmine.  You hoped they'd find something of interest on your list.  Communication took weeks, so you couldn't take the time to say "tell me about that Billy Bragg show, what's on it and how's it sound?"  The whole thing was a shot in the dark.

This one was pretty good.  A bit hissy, so it's not from a master, but it's close.  It's a fun show, with my favorite being Bragg's rewriting "Route 66" for an English road. Some of it was baffling: what the heck was Subbuteo?

https://mega.nz/file/mcAkwTrS#S2Yb8IwYnjcMoNBm1CDhAJs6a806918kF5DiSb71oP8

Screaming Blue Messiahs - Live at the BBC

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Originally posted November 30, 2015

Screaming Blue Messiahs - Live at the BBC

Soundboard @320
Out of Print

 

$75+ at the 'Zon

Though only three Screaming Blue Messiahs BBC sessions are included on this compilation, it actually has quite a bit of material, owing mainly to the inclusion of 11 songs recorded in concert (as opposed to in a studio) on March 30, 1985. Otherwise, the CD has three songs apiece from more standard BBC sessions (in both length and sound) from July 6, 1985, and November 12, 1987. The March 1985 session in particular might hold special interest for fans, as it captures the Screaming Blue Messiahs in a live situation not long after their recording career started, including a couple of songs they'd never put on their official releases. The sound on that portion is good, though not wonderful, on a set dominated by songs from their debut EP, Good & Gone, and their debut LP, Gun Shy, which had yet to be released when this concert was recorded. Some fans might appreciate the rawness of this session, as well as the inclusion of "Vision and Blues" (recorded at the Good & Gone sessions but not issued) and the more impressive Bill Carter original "Destroyer" (which the band never did put on one of its official releases). In all honesty, however, the unconverted might be unimpressed by the lack of variety in their rough bluesy punkish rock at this stage, and the more polished sound and performances of their subsequent Beeb sessions are actually preferable. That's even true of the one from just a few months later in July 1985, where even the two songs reprised from the March 1985 concert simply benefit from more creative tempo changes, eerie guitar textures, and clearer singing. All three of the songs on the November 1987 session are taken from their second full-length LP, Bikini Red, including of course a rendition of their modest U.K. hit "I Wanna Be a Flintstone" -- which, while a little ways from their rawest roots, is simply the most memorable tune here. The package is embellished by lengthy historical liner notes that serve not just as a useful guide to the sessions, but also as a reasonable overview of much of their origins and early career.
~Richie Unterberger - All Music

Track List:

1. Good and Gone
2. Vision and Blues
3. Growing for Gold
4. Tracking the Dog
5. Let's Go Down to the Woods
6. Happy Home
7. Holiday Head
8. President Kennedy's Mile
9. Destroyer
10. Wild Blue Yonder
11. Twin Cadillac Valentine
12. Good and Gone
13. Tracking the Dog
14. Talking Doll
15. Sweet Water Pools
16. I Wanna Be a Flintstone
17. Big Brother Muscle

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Catherine Wheel - Live BBC 1995

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Originally posted February 23, 2015

Catherine Wheel - Live BBC
London, UK
August 9, 1995
FM Source @192

Catherine Wheel was one of the most tragically underrated bands of the ‘90s and a favorite of mine. Here’s a blistering live set that aired on the BBC in 1995 as part of their promotion for their recording "Happy Days". Check out the ridiculously awesome 12-minute version of “Black Metallic”.

 

Set List:
God Inside My Head
Crank
Judy Staring At The Sun
Heal
I Want To Touch You
Waydown
Black Metallic
 

Thanks to the original source!!

 

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Happy Mondays - In Session with Peel 1986, 1989

 

Happy Mondays - In Session with Peel
FM Source @320

 

Recorded: 1986-04-01. Broadcast: 09 April 1986. Repeated: 22 April 1986, 22 December 1986

    Kuff Dam / Freaky Dancin' / Olive Oil / Cob 20

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2. Recorded: 1989-02-21. Broadcast: 27 February 1989. Repeated: Mostly Peel Spring 1989, 24 July 1989, 27 December 1989

    Tart Tart / Mad Cyril / Do It Better

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Gang Of Four - The Peel Sessions Album (1990)

Gang Of Four - The Peel Sessions Album (1990)
BBC Studio recordings @320

Out of Print

 

Track List:

1-I Found That Essence Rare
2-Return The Gift
3-5.45
4-At Home He's A Tourist
5-Natural's Not In It
6-Not Great Men
7-Ether
8-Guns Before Butter
9-Paralysed
10-History's Bunk
11-To Hell With Poverty

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Killing Joke - BBC In Concert 1995

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Originally posted March 24, 2009

Killing Joke - BBC In Concert 1995
Soundboard @192
Out of Print

 

Recorded in 1985-86 Released by BBC in 1995 

Tracks 1 to 10 recorded at the 1986 Reading Festival
Tracks 11 to 13 recorded at the Paris Theatre, London on 6th March 1985.

Not the greatest mix by the folks at BBC but still a killer recording. 

 

Track List:
01 twighlight of the mortals
02 chessboards
03 kings and queens
04 darkness before dawn
05 love like blood
06 sanity
07 love of the masses
08 requiem
09 complications
10 wardance
11 tabazan
12 tension
13 psyche

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Electrafixion - BBC Sesssions 1994

 

Electrafixion - Mark Radcliffe Sesssions

BBC Session

June 27, 1994

FM Souce @160

 

Guitarist Will Sergeant and singer Ian McCulloch formed Echo & the Bunnymen with bassist Les Pattinson in Liverpool in 1978. The group later replaced a drum machine with Trinidad-native Pete de Freitas, and became one of the most important British indie bands of the '80s. Ian McCulloch left for a solo career in 1988, and his debut album Candleland proved successful. Meanwhile, his former band imploded after 1990's Reverberation, recorded with a McCulloch imitator named Noel Burke.

In 1992, McCulloch's second solo album, Mysterio, flopped, and he reconciled with Sergeant two years later. Sergeant and McCulloch recruited bassist Leon de Sylva and drummer Tony McGuigan and toured England as Electrafixion. Crowds and the press approved of the group's groove-heavy update of Echo & the Bunnymen's moody, slightly psychedelic indie pop. In November 1994, Electrafixion released "Zephyr" on their Spacejunk label, and followed with the album Burned in late 1995. 

~John Bush at All Music

 

 Set List:

 01-Interview 1
02-Zephyr
03-Radciffe 1
04-Sister Pain
05-interview 2
06-Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed
07-Mark Radcliffe 2
08-Bed Of Nails

 

 Thanks to Zigzag Wanderer!

 

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Chicken Shack - Live BBC 1968

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Originally posted April 5, 2011 and July 20, 2017

Chicken Shack - Live BBC 1968 
(featuring Christine Perfect)

BBC Broadcast @192

*Original Notes*

For many, British blues band Chicken Shack are best remembered for the smouldering I’d Rather Go Blind. The song was popular enough in Malaysia in the late ’60s and early ’70s to be found on a number of pirated 7-inch vinyl singles, which were quite the rage then. However, the name (and vocalist) Christine Perfect wasn’t well known then, until she married John McVie and joined Fleetwood Mac.

Chicken Shack probably had the most success with Perfect in the lineup - she got a Melody Maker award for female vocalist for both 1969 and 1970 respectively - and, on the track, When The Train Comes Home, she gets to showcase her bluesy keyboards skills. The bonus is having blues singer and musician Duster Bennett on harmonica on Mean Old World.

Track List:

01. When The Train Comes Home

02. Love Me or Leave Me

03. Mean Old World (with Duster Bennett)

04. It’s OK With Me Baby

Lineup:

Christine Perfect - keyboards, vocals

Stan Webb - guitar

Andy Sylvester - bass

Dave Bidwell - drums

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BBC '68

The The - On The Radio

1993-06-05 Brixton Academy (FLAC)

 01 Infected
02 Helpline Operator
03 Love Is Stronger Than Death
04 Dogs Of Lust
05 August And September
06 Heartland
07 Sweet Bird Of Truth
08 The Violence Of Truth
09 Armageddon Days Are Here Again
10 Lonely Planet
11 True Happiness This Way Lies

 as played tonight on BBC 6 Classic Concert

 recorded: PC -> WAV -> FLAC

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2000-12-16  Christmas Special, Palladium, Köln (MP3)

01 Boiling Point
02 Voidy Numbness
03 Dogs of Lust
04 Helpline Operator
05 Global Eyes
06 Soul Catcher
07 This Is The Day
08 December Sunlight
09 Swine FeverP
10 hantom Walls
11 Love Is Stronger Than Death
12 Bluer Than Midnight

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+ with Jools Holland - Uncertain Smile

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1993-06-21 BBC Session (FLAC)

 The The - Armegeddon Days
The The - Sodium Light Baby
The The - Soul Mining
The The - This Is The Day

source: Gideo Coe Show

 

rec: PC -> WAV -> FLAC

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Feel Good with the Doctor

"Down in the South of France,

Where all  the ladies love to dance ..."

Francois' car 1975 (shot with a 007-style Minox)

We found ourselves playing Boule with french friends

on a public place. Out of a car aside came this music 

that made us dance, too, all of a sudden

changing our musical preferences

 

1980-10-31 FM Metropol Berlin (Rockpalast)

 01 Best In The World
02 Who's Winning
03 Java Blue
04 Jumping From Love To Love
05 Stupidity
06 Riding On The L+N
07 Back In The Night
08 No Mo' Do' Yakamo
09 Lovehound
10 Case Of The Shakes
11 Shotgun Blues
12 You Upset Me Baby
13 Drives Me Wild
14 Milk And Alcohol
15 Down At The Dr's
16 She's A Windup
17 Riot In Cell Block No. 9
18 Roxette

 

1973-10-24 BBC session

She Does It Right

Tore Down 

1975-01-21 John Peel Session

01 I'm A Hog For You Baby
02 Keep Out Of Sight
03 Route 66
04 I Don't Mind
 

1975-09-04 Paris Theatre

part 1

01 I Can Tell
02 Going Back Home
03 Air
04 Don't You Just Know It
05 Roxette
06 Another Man

part 2

01 I Don't Mind

02 Riot In Cell Block No.9 

03 Rollin' And Tumblin'

04 Going Back Home

The BBC stuff is taken from Gideon Coe's picks

PC -> .WAV -> lamed

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Bonus: some pic(k)s from Rock & Folk 2010-05