Tim Finn
VARA Public Broadcasting
Likely recorded at:
the Venue
Melbourne, Australia
October 29, 1983
01 Through The Years
02 Below The Belt
03 Grand Adventure
04 Growing Pains
05 Not For Nothing
06 Shape I'm In (Joe Camilleri)
This version from Hans Devente's tape, posted as a single flac file in June 2014. His source was marked as VARA-FM, the former Omroepvereniging VARA public radio broadcaster which merged with BNN in 2014 to form BNN-VARA.
I normalized channels, removed any audio glitches, and chaptered it.
Hans had this cassette marked as "The Venue, London" with a date of April 9, 1984.
On listening to the tape again in 2025, Mr. Finn introduces Joe Camilleri (of Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons) to the audience as "your very own Joe Camilleri." I had to look up where Mr. Camilleri was from...and it wasn't London. His family immigrated to Australia from Malta.
Further exploration led to the Setlist.fm website, which lists the London show and the April 9 date, but also has a show at the Venue, Melbourne, Australia, from October 29, 1983. As we have seen before, Setlist.fm occasionally aggregates incorrect data. Just because something is written on the Internet does not make it true (and that goes for what I write, too...but I do try to provide documents to help prove my claims).
Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons were from Melbourne. It was clear Camilleri was being introduced to a hometown audience.
My conclusion is the attribution to London on April 9 is incorrect. I found an ad and press coverage for the October 29 date in Melbourne.
