Tuesday 28 February 2017

#102 BROADCAST - BBC Radio & TV Sessions (1996-2000) (Flac)




BROADCAST - BBC Radio & TV Sessions

01 The Note
02 Untitled
03 Forget Every Time
04 The World Backwards

05 Come On Let's Go
06 Look Outside
07 The Book Lovers
08 Lights Out

09 Long Was The Year
10 Echo's Answer
11 Where Youth & Laughter Go I Am Not Welcome

12 Until Then (cuts in)
13 Come On Let's Go
14 Look Outside
15 Papercuts

16 Come On Let's Go
17 Unchanging Window

tracks 1-4 John Peel session #1 BBC FM Radio 1 broadcast - 6 October 1996
               (recorded at Maida Vale 4 studio in London on 15 September 1996)
tracks 5-8 Steve Lamacq session BBC FM Radio 1 - March 1997
tracks 9-11 John Peel session #2 BBC FM Radio 1 - 9 February 2000
               (recorded at Maida Vale 3 studio in London on 23 January 2000)
tracks 12-15 The Queen Elizabeth Hall, London BBC FM Radio 1 - 20 June 1998
tracks 16-17 Later with Jools Holland, BBC2 TV broadcast - 20 May 2000

Lineage: CDR received in trade > Soundforge WAV > dBpoweramp Music Converter FLAC

 Around the year 2000, several albums showcased electronic music, the most well known and controversial of these was Radiohead's album 'Kid A'. It continuously cropped up on critics lists because it defined the dread, alienation, anxiety, and malaise of the digital era in the new millenium. Another album also spoke of these same themes, the band was called Broadcast and their debut album was titled ‘The Noise Made By People’. Unlike Radiohead, Broadcast were subtler, more rhythmic, and worked in a less obscure medium. Coming some four years after the group's initial single release, the debut has attained a striking classical timelessness. It has a delicate balance between the electronic experimentation and the crystalline elegance of film scores (especially the swinging basslines and jazzy percussion of the '60s). Floating above this is the ethereal vocals of siren Trish Keenan.

This set is an excellent introduction with six radio session performances from their debut. Influences from Portishead are apparent but this music has a softer and warmer edge to it.

These three BBC Radio One sessions were culled from broadcasts between 1996 and 2000. The bonus tracks were taken from a live appearance for the John Peel curated Meltdown Festival at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London 1998. Four of the eight tracks performed live are included here. The two final tracks were taken from a BBC2 television appearance, Later with Jools... these are in slightly inferior audio. The inclusion of the third John Peel session from 2003 would have made this set more comprehensive. At present a lossless version does not circulate. Despite that, this is still one of the best Broadcast bootlegs available. I also rate highly their Black session and the VPRO performance in Amsterdam, both from the year 2000.

LINK 1

 
John Peel session #3
(mp3 320kbps)

01. Pendulum
02. Colour Me In
03. Minim
04. Sixty Forty

Recorded 24 July 2003 - Maida Vale Studio 4, London, England
Broadcast 19 August 2003 - John Peel show, BBC Radio 1 FM

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Thursday 2 February 2017

#101 JOE STRUMMER & the Mescaleros - Seattle 2001

From this show onwards I have decided to add a further 50 bootlegs.


Prior to downloading this show, the best sounding complete live Mescaleros set I had heard was the famous Benefit Concert (Firefighters) at Acton Town Hall in London, from November 2002. In fact it originally featured as the second post on the blog in 2011. It was then removed with some others, during a restructuring of those that had been officially released during the blog's lifetime. It's now available as a digital download from Hellcat Records and also on a limited Record Day vinyl release.

Joe Strummer, former frontman of the Clash, took to the road with his band the Mescaleros, for promotional work and live dates to publicise the release of their second album 'Global A Go-Go'. The album was released by Hellcat Records/Epitaph on July 24, 2001.

After a set of in-store appearances and a one-off show in Los Angeles on August 4, the Mescaleros returned to North America in October 2001 for a limited set of shows. The North American tour was followed quickly by a short five-date UK tour, during November 2001. I was fortunate to be present for one of those shows. It was the second time I had seen the Mescaleros and when Joe took to the stage, he strode on wearing a suit, earning immense cheers and surprise at his attire. The set list was similar to this earlier show from the Key Arena in Seattle, Washington on October 17, 2001.

Where this live recording has been previously posted, the lack of source details must surely have caused many to overlook it, believing it to be an audience recording. It is either a soundboard or FM recording and has an excellent mix. I have seen it noted as an FM broadcast on old trader's lists and some compression is noticeable on the louder uptempo numbers. Limited quality recordings are available from this tour and for those reasons I recommend it to any Clash fan.

The radio interview is a bonus track and was broadcast by the BBC earlier in the year on May 24, 2001. Joe can be heard discussing Bob Dylan's 60th birthday, along with Stevie Wonder and a rather snobbish BBC presenter, who allows Joe to sing brief snatches of 'Blowin' In The Wind' and 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'

Interviews with ex members of the band mention they had misgivings over the quantity of Clash songs included in the set lists of this tour. Here there are only three Strummer/Jones compositions. The new Mescaleros album has eight of its eleven songs performed live. Most of the 'Clash' songs were actually covers of some of Joe's favourite reggae tunes.


JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROS   
Key Arena, Seattle, WA.
October 17, 2001

Soundboard / FM
Lineage:  Trade > CDR > EAC > WAV > Traders Little Helper > FLAC

CD1:
01. Cool 'N' Out 
02. Global-a-Go-Go 
03. Rudy Can't Fail 
04. Bhindi Bhagee 
05. Armagideon Time (Willi Williams) 
06. Shaktar Donetsk 
07. Mega Bottle Ride 
08. Tony Adams 
09. Police And Thieves (Junior Murvin/Lee Perry)
10. Mondo Bongo 
11. Johnny Appleseed 
12. Bummed Out City

CD2:
01. Police On My Back (Eddy Grant) 
02. The Harder They Come (Jimmy Cliff) 
03. Pressure Drop (Toots Hibberts) 
04. I Fought The Law (Sonny Curtis)
05. Bankrobber 
06. Yalla Yalla
07. A Message To You Rudy (Dandy Livingstone)
08. London's Burning 
09. Blitzkrieg Bop (Ramones) 
10. Radio Interview

                                  released by Hellcat Records/Epitaph on July 24, 2001

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