Ramones - Athens 1989

Ramones, live in Athens Greece, "Blitzkreig In Athens" bootleg, 13th March 1989

I'm surprised I've never posted any Ramones shows as yet, I was <--> this close before but never did for some reason. This was recorded just after Dee Dee left the band to try his hand at rapping, and featured the line-up of C.J, Joey, Johnny and Marky.

1 Durango 95 / Blitzkrieg Bop
2 Teenage Lobotomy
3 Psycho Therapy
4 Do You Remember Rock And Roll Radio
5 I Believe In Miracles
6 Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
7 Beat On The Brat
8 Chinese Rock
9 Bonzo Goes To Bitburg
10 Go Mental
11 Sheena Is A Punkrocker / Rockaway Beach
12 Pet Sematary
13 Don't Bust My Chops
14 She's The One
15 Mama's Boy / Animal Boy
16 Wart Hog
17 Surfin Bird / Cretin Hop
18 I Don't Want To Walk Around With You / Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World
19 Pinhead
20 I Wanna Live
21 Somebody Put Something In My Drink
22 Do You Wanna Dance
23 Palisades Park / We're A Happy Family

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Ramones Athens

Smashing Pumpkins - Live at Palamalaguti 2008

Smashing Pumpkins, live at Palamalaguti Bologna, 3rd February 2008

What can I say about this band that people don't already know? I've been a fan since debut album Gish, and like many my fandom has decreased in the interveening years? I'm sure you could've guessed half of that anyway, so not much cop really. However...despite the fact the line-up isn't what it used to be, Billy still remains a hard task master, he demands the best out of any musicians within his band, it goes to show in their live performances, and this one is particularly fine.

01. Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans
02. Behold! The Nightmare
03. Bring The Light
04. Tonight Tonight
05. Mayonaise
06. Try, Try, Try
07. Superchrist
08. (Come on) Let's Go!
09. Stellar
10. Perfect (acoustic)
11. Lily (My One And Only)
12. The Rose March
13. Today
14. Tarantula
15. Stand Inside Your Love
16. Ava Adore
17. Drown
18. Bullet With Butterfly Wings
19. 1979 (acoustic)
20. That's The Way (My Love Is)
21. My Blue Heaven
22. The Everlasting Gaze
23. Cash Car Star
24. Easy Living (Uriah Heep)
25. Foreplay-Long Time (Boston)
26. For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield)
27. Wasted Years (Iron Maiden)
28. Daydream
29. Wound
30. United states\Encore Break

Encores:
31. I Don't Mind
32. Cherub Rock

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Bert Jansch - Live at Somerset House, London 2007

Bert Jansch and Friends, live at Somerset House, London, 14th July 2007.

Bert Jansch is a bona fide legend in the guitar world, how many other acoustic guitarists can be said to have inspired Page, Townsend, Butler and Marr? You could probably count them all on no hands.

A huge folk star in the '60's and '70's, Jansch has had a big resurgence in this century, partly down to his friendship with Bernard Butler the former Suede guitarist and youngsters producer of choice it seems. Bernard has played on several of Berts records in the past several years (possibly all since 2000's Crimson Moon, I don't own them all and can't be arsed to do the research!), as well as many others, including the other two people present at this performance, the lovely Beth Orton and relatively unknown guitarist Paul Wassif.

Disc 1
01. She Moved Through The Fair
02. Blackwater Side
03. Strolling Down The Highway
04. Rosemary Lane
05. Down Under
06. My Donald
07. The Old Triangle
08. It Don't Bother Me
09. Fresh As Sweet Sunday Morning
10. Casbah
11. Poison

Disc 2
01. She Moved Through The Fair
02. Black Cat Blues
03. My Pocket's Empty
04. A Woman Like You
05. A New Day Beginning
06. Blues Run The Game
07. Carnival
08. Katie Cruel
09. Safe In Your Arms
10. Watch The Stars
11. When The Sun Comes Up
12. Pass In Time

Bernard appears on tracks 8, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23
Beth appears on tracks 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
Paul appears on tracks 13, 14, 15, 21, 22, 23

Radiohead - On A Friday Demos

Radiohead, On A Friday demo tape, The Greatest Shindig, summer 1990

This tape is a collection of demos made over the summer of 1990. All the members were by this point at different Universities around the country, but reconvened over the summer, with the exception of Phil who was in Ireland. Although at this time the band did not have a settled name, having dropped On A Friday, but not come up with anything better. The band's working title was 'Shindig', which survived long enough for Thom to spray paint it on his acoustic guitar case, but by the time of their next 'proper' demo, they had reverted to On A Friday.

In order to keep recording and rehearsing a school friend who had recorded some previous demos for the band was drafted in to keep the drum stool warm. The Clifton Hampden tracks were recorded over a number of weeks with this line up, while Jonny took the four track home with him in between where him, Thom and Colin worked on tracks. When Phil returned the band recorded another demo track in rehearsal, 'What's That You See?', significant because it was the first time Jonny moved from keyboards to guitar. The song was the only one from this period that remained in the set up until just prior to the deal with Parlophone.

01. Climbing Up A Bloody Great Hill
02. Somebody
03. Mr. B
04. What's That You See?
05. Everyone Needs Someone To Hate
06. Upside Down
07. The Greatest Shindig
08. Give It Up
09. How Can You Be Sure?
10. Life With The Big F
11. Keep Strong
12. Rattlesnake
13. Burning Bush
14. Tell Me Bitch
15. New Generation

Talking Heads - Live at the Jabberwocky 1977

Talking Heads, live at the Jabberwocky Syracuse NY, 26th January 1977

One of the several highly Iconic bands from the mid-late '70's New York underground scene, Talking Heads are probably the most influential of the lot, and that's a big deal when you consider The Ramones, Patti Smith, Blondie and Television. Sure Blondie were probably the biggest with the girls, The Ramones with the alt crowd, but for allover appeal no-one beats Bryne, Frantz, Weymouth and Harrison.

Performed as a late show on the 26th of January, this bootleg was broadcast on FM radio, and going by the opening intro track this is taken from the pre-broadcast tapes. Anyway, it's a great set from such a rich period in their history, enjoy!...and yes, that is the Troggs track to close the set!

01. Radio Intro
02. Love > Building On Fire
03. Uh Oh, Love Comes To Town
04. Don't Worry About The Government
05. Take Me To The River
06. The Book I Read
07. New Feeling
08. A Clean Break
09. Stay Hungry
10. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
11. Pulled Up
12. No Cmopassion
13. Psycho Killer
14. I'm Not In Love
15. Love Is All Around

Also, visit http://journal.davidbryne.com/ for a very interesting look at what goes on in the world, and head, of Mr Byrne himself.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Live at the Warfield 1998 *updated links*

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Warfield Theatre SA, 17th December 1998

This is a rather lovely bootleg from Nick and the band, with a good mix of songs from over their term as the Bad Seeds, many classics such as Stagger Lee, Mercy Seat, From Her To Eternity etc. etc. When playing the harder edged songs, such as the above mentioned Mercy Seat, the band and Nick himself deliver them with a passion belying a group of their age, it's good to hear a band who still love performing old songs they've played thousands of times before, and do so with such fire in their bellies.

Rear cover

01. Far From Me
02. Do You Love Me
03. Lime Tree Arbour
04. Red Right Hand
05. Tupelo
06. Brompton Oratory
07. I Let Love In
08. From Her To Eternity
09. West Country Girl
10. Mercy Seat
11. Weeping Song
12. Nobodys Baby Now
13. Into My Arms
14. Henry Lee
15. Where The Wild Roses Grow
16. Deanna
17. Plain Gold Ring
18. Stagger Lee
19. The Ship Song
20. Your Funeral...My Trial

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Steve Malkmus and the Jicks, Seattle 2005

Steve Malkmus and the Jicks, live at Sonic Boom Records Seattle, in-store free show, 24th May 2005

The image is actually from 2nd March, but the show's certainly from 24th May as it was direct from the taper alienbobz.

Stephen gained rightful acclaim fronting Pavement in the throughout the '90's, after which he started 'the Jicks', initially wanting to be called simply that, except his label had other thoughts on the matter, as they tend to do in such cases. So, Steve Malkmus released a Jicks album under his own name before officially using the moniker when he released (or should I say they?) Pig Lib in 2003.

The track Grace, I had some shit trying to find some info on it, but I now know it's unreleased, so have some of that mother lumpers! Enjoy ;-)

01. Intro
02. Freeze The Saints
03. No More Shoes
04. Malediction
05. Mama
06. It Kills
07. Grace (unreleased)

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*updated links*

Super Furry Animals, Dublin 2005

Super Furry Animals, live at the Olympia Theatre Dublin, September 27th 2005

This show was recorded (excellently by Johnky, his bootleg list is available here) during the Love Kraft tour, and features mainly tracks from the album as well as Phantom Power and Rings Around The World releases. It opens with a touch of Gruffs humour (and Bunfs I assume, being the DJ of the band), as the theme to the Rocky movies blasts out as they take the stage, then later shows a bit of the same, though with a touch of rebellion, as Bill Hicks calls out "All governments are liars and murderers", not sure which show that's from, but I'm pretty certain it was a reaction to the Koresh/Waco incident.

A couple of small points about SFA.
1) They should be bigger than they are.
2) Why do these new bands get so much love for using (nu)rave in their music? SFA have done it for years, and to a much higher standard too. Stupid fads!

01. Intro
02. Intro - Rocky Theme
03. International Language Of Screaming
04. Hello Sunshine
05. Zoom
06. Atomic Lust
07. The Horn
08. Ohio Heat
09. Run Christian Run
10. Cloudberries
11. Frequency
12. Ice Hockey Hair
13. Recepticle For The Respectable
14. Slow Life
15. Slow Life cont.
16. Juxtaposed With U
17. Lazrerbeam
18. Rings Around The World
19. Do Or Die
20. Something For The Weekend
21. Drygioni
22. The Man Don't Give A Fuck
23. The Man Don't Give A Fuck cont.

Stone Roses - live at the Hacienda, Feb 1989

Stone Roses, live at the Hacienda 27th February 1989, All The Colours Fade bootleg.

The first big hometown gig for the legendary Stone Roses, at the also legendary Hacienda Club in Manchester. The line-up, the songs, and the shit-hot band, they're all present and correct in this concert bootleg. Comprising mainly of tracks from their iconic debut album, the show fairly pings along as Reni, Mani, John and Ian are pretty much on the top of their game. Sally Cinnamon, later released by someone unscrupulous while court battles were raging between band and label, is a joy to hear, as are Here It Comes and Suger Spun Sister. I really can't 'big-up' this bootleg enough, just take it and see for yourself.

Made Of Stone
Sally Cinnamon


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R.E.M. Live in Toronto 2008

R.E.M. live at the Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto Canada, June 8th 2008

Finally here's the gig I promised when I uploaded the Modest Mouse support slot, I've been having a life for a change, I beg forgiveness. This is a pretty good audience recording (thanks Midy for this and the MM), and has a well rounded set, though I'm sure there's a few songs all of us wish they played, but that goes with being a band of such longevity. I myself would've prefered more '80's, first half-a-dozen albums stuff, but then that's just me.

Anyway, here it is, enjoy!

01. Here It Is
02. Horse To Water
03. What's The Frequency Kenneth?
04. Drive
05. Man Sized Wreath
06. So Fast, So Numb
07. Ignoreland
08. Accelerate
09. 7 Chinese Brothers
10. Chat
11. Hollow Man
12. Bad Day
13. Houston
14. Electrolite
15. Living Well Is The Best Revenge
16. The One I Love
17. Final Straw
18. Until The Day Is Done
19. Let Me In
20. Begin The Begin
21. Animal
22. Orange Crush
23. Supernatural Superstar
24. Losing My Religion
25. Second Crossing
26. Fall On Me
27. Man ON The Moon (with Johnny Marr)

Modest Mouse - Live in Toronto June 2008

Modest Mouse, Molson Amphitheatre Toronto, June 8th 2008

Here's the support set from the R.E.M gig (coming later) from the Issaquah WA band. I quite enjoyed their second album when I heard it, but in hindsight never really gave it enough of a whirl, not as much as it merits anyway. When I heard ex The Smiths guitarist, and one of my alltime guitar idols, Johnny Marr was playing with them a few years back my ears pricked up.

The story goes that Johnny was at a barbeque with a member of the band, they got chating and said they should work together sometime. A while later he gets the call, asking if he'd like to play a few shows with them. He run the idea past his son, a big Modest Mouse fan, who told him to do it, then promptly started to teach his dad the songs on guitar. I'm sure he plays them better than the little man now, but it must've been ace for him to be teaching Johnny how to play some stuff, and even better to see Modest Mouse from the side of the stage while his dad played.

01. Satin Coffin
02. Invisible
03. Dashboard
04. Here It Comes
05. Education
06. Truckers Atlas
07. Wlid Pack Of Family Dogs
08. Paper Thin Walls
09. King Rat
10. We've Got Everything Now
11. The Good Times Are Killing Me
12. Float On


I just noticed I mistyped on track 8. If you have a tagger prog you can fix it, if not....tough.

Foo Fighters - Wembley June 2008 *updated links*

Foo Fighters, Wembley Stadium, June 6/7th 2008

These tracks are taken from a BBC radio broadcast on the 9th June, which mixed songs played on both nights of the Foo Fighters double-header at Wembley. The broadcast set contains songs from over their career, or should I say Daves as a Foo, due to the fact the 1st record was just him alone, before bringing in Nate to play with the live band, then later adding Hawkins then Shiflett to what is now a stable, and very damn tight, rock band.

When he first released an album under the Foo Fighters banner, he was naturally, and perhaps unfairly, compared to former Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain. While it's obvious enough that Kurt would've been an influence on Daves playing and writing styles, it was a bit tough for him to be immediately compared to such a seminal band.

For that first album, self titled, Daves writing couldn't hold a candle to that of his deceased friend, and overall the album was rather patchy, though it did contain some great songs, notably I'll Stick Around and Big Me. As the band has grown and released more and more albums, Daves writing, helped of course by the other members, has grown exponentially. So much so, that his brand of more positive sounding rock music I think would outsell (and probably does) that of Nirvana, due to it's accessability.

Anyway, I'm rambling...thanks to Miki for this, and sorry for ripping it to MP3!

01. Intro
02. The Pretender
03. Times Like These
04. Long Road To Ruin
05. Break Out
06. Skin And Bones
07. Big Me
08. My Hero
09. Everlong
10. Monkey Wrench
11. All My Life
12. D.O.A.
13. Best Of You

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Arcade Fire - BBC Radio 3, October 2004

Arcade Fire, BBC Radio 3 session, October 2nd 2004.

This session was broadcast six or seven weeks after the release of Arcade Fires outstanding debut album Funeral, which is generally regarded as the finest 'indie' album of that year. As well as tracks five, eight and ten from the album, the band played the as yet unreleased (though there were demos in circulation) No Cars Go, later to be recorded for the second long playing release Neon Bible, and their often played Talking Heads cover This Must Be The Place, a track which David Byrne joined them onstage for during a gig in NYC.

Despite the fact that Funeral was recorded while the many members were attending a few too many than's good for a chap (two grandparents and an aunt died), the feel of the album is generally uplifting, not that the album tracks here properly reflect this. That situation probably had alot to do with the amount of coverage they got initially, yes I am a cynic, but that only helped to bring a fantastic album, which would otherwise have gone relatively unnoticed to the average prole, into peoples conciousness. No bad thing at all.

01. No Cars Go
02. Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)
03. This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
04. In The Backseat
05. Haiti

Jeff Buckley live at the Pacific Club 1994 *updated links*

Jeff Buckley, Pacific Club Antwerp, Sept 21st 1994.

This fine show is one of my favourite of Jeff Buckleys bootlegged concerts, due to the fact he really shows his goofy, fun-loving mentality to its full. There are other shows like this about, but none to my knowledge which he plays so many 'covers' as he does here.

It'll come as no suprise that this show has an alias, a nom de plume, or some other phrase taken from some ancient European language, namely "Whole Lotta Led". I'm a little uncertain as to why this may be, okay so I'm not...Jeff was a big Zeppelin fan, having learned to play Physical Graffiti as a young lad (he recorded Night Flight during both his Sin-E and Grace sessions), and no doubt his request for a Gibson Les Paul was directly inspired by Jimmy Page having several. I don't think he ever modified his 'Black Beauty' as Jimmy did, unlike his friends Telecaster, which eventually made it home after many a year on the road with him.

The covers here that didn't usually appear are in fact only little blasts, snippets of the songs, some of which I'd have loved to have heard performed in full by Jeff with or without band. These are cool anyway...enjoy!

Disc 1
01. New Years Prayer
02. Celebration Day
03. Moby Dick
04. In My Time Of Dying
05. Give It Up Or Turn It Loose
06. Chocolate
07. Mojo Pin
08. Dream Brother
09. Talking (My Feet Are Too Big)
10. So Real
11. Last Goodbye
12. What Will You Say?
13. Lilac Wine
14. Grace
15. Hallelujah
16. Je N'en Connais Pas La Fin
17. Talking (Led Zeppelin Anonymous)
18. California Dreaming
19. Purple Haze
20. Eternal Life
21. Lover, You Should've Come Over
22. Encore Break
23. Kanga-Roo

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Other Covers:
Celebration Day/Moby Dick/In My Time Of Dying - Led Zeppelin
Give It Up Or Turn It Lose - James Brown
California Dreaming - The Mamas And The Papas
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix

Additional artwork:
Inner
Back


*phew! after going through about 250 discs I found this again. Stupid library file dying with my old computer...*

Nine Black Alps - live at the Manchester Academy 2005 *updated links*

Nine Black Alps live in the City, Manchester Academy, October 3rd 2005.

Headliners of this concert above the Arctic Monkeys, Nine Black Alps (the name taken from a poem by notorious optimist Sylvia Plath) were the only of the bands broadcast on BBC radio 1 that actually had an album released at the time of the concert, as they released debut Everything Is in the previous June.

My personal favourite of the three bands who performed at the show, they've since released second LP Love/Hate, and subsequently been dropped by their label Island Records. I'll have to quote myself from one of the earlier posts now I'm afraid "Life eh?"

01. Intro
02. Over The Ocean
03. Just Friends
04. Cosmopolitan
05. Not Everyone
06. Get Your Guns
07. break
08. Unsatisfied
09. Llana Song
10. Southern Songs
11. Ironside
12. Shot Down

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Alps Rar

iForward Russia! - Live at the Manchester Academy *updated links*

iForward Russia! live in the City, Manchester Academy, October 3rd 2005.

At this point in Forward Russias career they had all of two releases to their names, the split 12" single, shared with This Et All, namely Nine, and the White Heat Records release Thirteen/Fourteen. As you may have already noticed, the more observant of you anyway, the track titles are names are numbers, in the early days together they simply named their songs in the order they were written.

They formed in Leeds 2004, The Black Helicopters Tom and Rob hooked up with brother and sister Katie and 'Whiskas' Nicholls. Unsurprisingly pimped by N.M.E early on, this alternative rock band have released two full length albums to some little success, much less than this fine band deserves, while the Monkeys/Doherty clones sell bucket loads. Life eh?

01. Intro
02. Thirteen
03. Seventeen
04. Twelve/Eighteen
05. Nine
06. Eleven

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Russia Rar

Arctic Monkeys - Live at the Manchester Academy 2005 *updated links*

Arctic Monkeys at Live in the City, Manchester Academy, October 3rd 2005

Before they hit the bigtime but definitely not before the fabled hype, the Arctic Monkeys got some good coverage, notably this live concert performance broadcast by the BBC.

At this point the Arctic Monkeys had only EP releases to their credit, self released at that for the first, yet this setlist shows they had the tunes that would later become their record breaking debut. The show was rather like the N.M.E. gigs, get a bunch of up-and-comers, put them on a stage together, make some money from the kids. This shows what a good record label media push, oh I mean 'internet word of mouth' *coughs*, can do for a band, as they were below the Nine Black Alps on the bill yet they've sold billions more albums, okay, maybe I exagerate a tad, but you know what I'm saying...

01. Intro
02. I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
03. Fake Tales Of San Francisco
04. Still Take You Home
05. Perhaps Vampires Is A Bit Strong But.../Dancing Shoes
06. Mardy Bum
07. Sun Goes Down

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Monkeys Rar

R.E.M. - live in Durham NC 1984

R.E.M. - We Are Having A Heavenly Time bootleg, Live at the Page Auditorium, September 26 1984

An excellent early set from the Athens band, but though this concert is soundboard sourced, it is sadly a tad out on the timing front, very noticably so at one point. Other than that this is a fine bootleg. As with the early albums Stipe's a little low in the mix on some tracks, but as it's the same on the releases it's no biggie. Including such classics as Rockville, So. Central Rain, Radio Free Europe and Driver 8 this is a must have for fans.

01. Seven Chinese Brothers
02. Catapault
03. Radio Free Europe
04. Khoetek
05. Letters Never Sent
06. So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
07. Driver 8
08. (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
09. 1,000,000
10. Hyena
11. Old Man Kensey
12. Second Guessing

Interpol - Live in Copenhagen 2004

Interpol
Copenhagen Store Vega, Denmark
26. November 2004

Interpol are obviously a rather fine band, and although they're naturally compared to Joy Division, Paul Banks vocals are heavily reminiscent, and due to their dark imagery and rather bare instrumentalism, I do feel there's happy music just trying to step out of the gloom.

Say Hello To The Angels for starters, this tune has elements of traditional punk in it's simple driving rythmn, and of course echoes of The Clash. NARC and Obstacle 1, in fact many songs, have driving dance beats ala the Stone Roses and their peers, the later again has the offbeat rythmn guitar stabs of Reggae courtesy of The Clash, also echoed in the closed hi-hat hits on Length Of Love.

Essentially what I'm saying is this, despite the obvious love for the British music of the '70s and '80s, Interpol are really an upbeat '60s Garage band a couple of places removed. Just listen to those rythmns and try not to think of The Sonics, the Amboy Dukes, Bunker Hill, Count Five and a myriad of other primarily Chicago based bands you've probably never heard of, and tell me there's no root there. Of course we could take it further back, but why be quite so pedantic? I'm full of shit you say? Shut up and enjoy the gig fucko! ;-)

Next Exit
Say Hello To The Angels
NARC
Pervert
Obstacle 1
Not Even Jail
Hands Away
NYC
Lenght Of Love
Slow Hands
Evil
P.D.A.
Roland
Stella Was A Diver

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*updated links*

Edit:
Fileden deleted Rar files instead of the sample MP3s I uploaded. I'll replace part 1 ASAP.

Belle Orchestra - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2005

Belle Orchestra, Museum of Fine Arts, 4th November 2005.

Led by the Arcade Fires multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed-Parry, this disperate band of various members of other bands frequenting the Montreal scene, have found some success in playing their contemporary brand of orchestral/chamber/folk music, mostly from the championing by, and support slots with, aforementioned Montreal scene leaders, but certainly not without having a certain merit of their own.

You might be lead to think that from the genres they cover in their music that maybe the music is a bit on the dour side, but this is far from the fact. Tunes like Quintet have violin refrains which echo the most jiving Irish jig, and are driven at times by beats reminiscent of the kind of north African music championed by the likes of Plant and Albarn. Piazolla has the kind of jazzy upright basslines that may be found on the finest of Bristols Trip-Hop classics. All-in-all, a cracking little show this.

The Upwards March
Quintet
Piazolla
Recording A Tape...Typewriter Duet
As Seen Through Windows
Music Box Intro
7 Song
Noviembre
Organ Song
Raj