Stevie Wonder - New York 1973

Stevie Wonder, live at the Rainbow Rooms, NYC, 13th July 1973

A truly beautiful recording today, from the legendary, and equally beautiful (in the 79's at least!) Stevie Wonder. Classic songs, funk and soul, a great band, and some great extended jam versions of songs surely we all know and love? If you don't, then you really should. Enjoy!

01. Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing
02. Higher Ground
03. Superwoman
04. To Know You Is To Love You
05. Signed Sealed Delivered
06. Visions
07. Living For The City
08. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
09. Superstition
10. My Dreams

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Wonder Rooms

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Beck - Demo Tape 1992

Beck, Like The Beer, 4-track demo tape, circa 1992

Second post for the day then. The story goes that Beck passed a copy of this demo tape (that's it pictured above) to a friend in a record store in Silver Lake, wherever that is, and it later found it's way to the guy who copied it and shared online. That said, his copy never had the 7th track, so what the source for that is I don't know...anyway, enjoy!

1. Unknown
2. Hollow Log
3. Gettin' Home
4. Gettin' Home
5. Puttin' It Down
6. Unknown
7. Unknown

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Beck Beer

Nine Black Alps - Lamacq Live 2004

Nine Black Alps, Lamacq Live, Maida Vale Studios London, 2nd August 2004

Two posts for today, both not easy to get hold of, and I'm guessing the next post will be more sought after, not that Nine Black Alps don't have their merits of course. A couple of tracks from the BBC Maida Vale studio accmopanied by interviews with the band on Steve Lamacqs show. Enjoy!

01. Interview
02. Shot Down
03. Lamacq Speaks
04. Interview
05. Not Everyone
06. Outro

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Alps Lamacq

Arcade Fire - New York 2005

Arcade Fire, live at Central Park, New York, 15th September 2005

Another of those bands I'm suprised I've never posted before, especially as I have lots of their bootlegs in my collection. This particular show features a guest spot on vocals from none other than David Bowie, on his own composition Queen Bitch. Arcade Fire also did this kinda thing with David Byrne on his classic, and their often played Naive Melody (This Must Be The Place), perhaps I'll share that in time. Anyway, enjoy!

01. Intro
02. Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels)
03. Crown Of Love
04. Neighbourhood #2 (Laika)
05. No Cars Go
06. Haiti
07. Headlights Look Like Diamonds
08. I'm Sleeping In A Submarine
09. Vampire/Forest Fires
10. In The Backseat
11. Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out)
12. Rebellion
13. Encore Break
14. Queen Bitch
15. Wake Up

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Fire Park

Devendra Banhart - Santa Monica 2004

Devendra Banhart, live on Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW Santa Monica, 5th May 2004

A little freak folk from the lovely Devendra Banhart for you today, I think accompanied by previous postee Vetiver on guitar, playing the famous Morning Becomes Eclectic session, sadly no longer hosted by Englishman Nic Harcourt. This performance was during the promotion of one of my favourite folk albums Niño Rojo, and 2004's other release Rejoicing In The Hands, something I really need to replace as I've worn the CD out. Enjoy!

01. Intro
02. This Is The Way
03. The Body Breaks
04. Todo Los Dolores
05. Autumn's Child
06. Interview
07. This Beard Is For Siobhan
08. A Sight To Behold
09. Will Is My Friend
10. Unknown Song (I Googled my ass off, but nothing...)
11. Michigan State
12. Outro

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Banhart KCRW

Talking Heads - CBS Demos 1975

Talking Heads, CBS Demos, New York 1975

Surely I don't need to say much about this post? Talking Heads demos from prior to their recording their debut album. Right, I'm off to the local pub...Enjoy!

01. Psycho Killer
02. Sugar On My Tongue
03. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
04. I Want To Live
05. I Wish You Wouldn't Say That
06. The Girls Want To Be With The Girls
07. Who Is It
08. With Our Love
09. Stay Hungry
10. Tentative Decisions
11. Warning Sign
12. I'm Not In Love
13. The Book I Read
14. Love Goes To Building On Fire
15. No Compassion

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Heads CBS

Xiu Xiu - Nuremburg 2004

Xiu Xiu, live at K4 Zentral Cafe, Nuremburg, 13th May 2004

Formed in 2000, Xui Xui's (Jamie Stewart's baby, being the only constant member) experimental brand of Indie/Alternative music has given them a good following, and deservedly so. This soundboard tape showcases just why, with a 50/50 mix of tracks from their then just released 3rd album Fabulous Muscles, and tracks from earlier records, giving an excellent incite into what Xiu Xiu are all about. Enjoy!

01: Poe Poe
02: Fabulous Muscles
03: Crank Heart
04: Clowne Towne
05: I Broke Up
06: Rose of Sharon
07: Jennifer Lopez
08: Sad Pony Guerilla Girl
09: I Luv the Valley OH!
10: Nieces Pieces
11: (applause)
12: Suha

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Xiu Nuremburg

Mark Geary - Austria 2009

Mark Geary, live at Rittersaal, Hartberg Austria, 6th February 2009

A little St. Patricks Day treat for you today, Mark Geary, friend of The Frames and a regular at the now extinct Sin-E, owned and run by Irish folk, when he moved to NYC in the early '90's. This Austrian show features a few covers towards the end of a nice set, one obvious Bob Dylan song and two less obvious covers which I cannot find the source of, as the name supplied to me was of a physicist...Enjoy!

01 Always
02 Cold Little Fire
03 Ghosts
04 It Beats Me
05 Tuesday
06 Suzanne
07 Mid-Nite Sun
08 Gingerman
09 See-saw
10 Volunteer
11 Morphine
12 You´re The Only Girl
13 Blue Sky
14 Bleib
15 I´ve Been Away
16 Just Like Tom Thumb`s Blues

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Geary Hartberg

Richard Ashcroft - Gateshead 2006

Richard Ashcroft, live at The Sage, Gateshead, 21st January 2006

It's a little surprising that I've not posted more Verve/Ashcroft shows really, as I've only posted the one at all, I'll see what I can do about that in the future.

This performance from Richard is very good, a great setlist comprising a few of the huge The Verve hits, with a smattering of his debut solo album to flesh out a good set of songs from the second solo effort. Enjoy!

01 Keys To The World
02 Music Is Power
03 Sonnet
04 Song For The Lovers
05 Science Of Silence
06 Sweet Brother Malcolm
07 Drugs Dont Work
08 Words Just Get In The Way
09 Why Not Nothing
10 Lucky Man
11 History
12 Check The Meaning
13 Lonely Soul
14 Break The Night With Colour
15 Bittersweet Symphony

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Ashcroft Sage 1
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The Raconteurs - British Radio Sessions 2006

The Raconteurs, British Radio Sessions, March 2006

Been a while since my last post, was away for a while and had no internet there...

This post is an amalgamation of three seperate sessions, all recorded in March of 2006. They are the Dermot O'Leary (1-5) and Zane Lowe (6-8) BBC shows, and an XFM session. Naturally a few of the songs are repeated, but this doesn't really detract from the whole. I'm sure y'all will enjoy anyway!

01. Interview
02. Steady As She Goes
03. Interview
04. It Ain't Easy (David Bowie cover)
05. Outro
06. Store Bought Bones
07. Call It A Day
08. Intimate Secretary
09. Interview
10. Level
11. Intimate Secretary
12. Steady As She Goes
13. Together
14. Hands

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Raconteurs Radio