Unzipping The Abstract (1980, UK, new wave) 
Sunday, October 25, 2020, 08:24 PM - Music, - UK, English
Bands Of The Manchester Musicians' Collective



Side one:
1 Bathroom Renovations - Intensely Henna'd
2 Cajun Cutie - Black Man's World
3 Dislocation Dance - You Can't Beat History
4 The Enigma - Play With Fire
5 Gods Gift - Creeps In
6 The Hoax - World War III
7 If Only - If Only...

Side two:
1 The Liggers - Pretty Girl
2 The Mekon - Must Have More
3 Outer Edge - Old Wives Tales
4 Performance - Natural Equilibrium
5 The Spurtz - Boyfriends Or Your Money Back
6 The Still - 9.5
7 Undercovermen - Of No Fixed Abode
8 Vibrant Thigh - Walking Away

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Peter Hammill - Rockpalast 1981 (UK, progrock) 
Wednesday, October 21, 2020, 03:27 PM - Music, - UK, English
With the new electronic tom-tom.
German TV (mono) recording of concert Markthalle Hamburg 1981-11-26.



1 The Future Now
2 Losing Faith In Words
3 Stranger Still
4 My Experience
5 The Sphinx In The Face
6 Flight
7 The Spirit
8 Door (partial)

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The Police - Pinkpop 1979 (UK, new wave) 
Wednesday, October 14, 2020, 03:53 PM - Music, - UK, English
Dutch radio mono recording, except for the two last songs, taken from lp Propaganda, recorded at The Bottom Line, New York, April 4, 1979.


Original photo by Karel Meijer

1 So lonely
2 Fall out
3 Born in the 50's
4 Hole in my life
5 Roxanne
6 Next to you
7 Can't stand losing you
8 Landlord
9 Next to you

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Hicks from the sticks (1980, UK, new wave) 
Tuesday, October 13, 2020, 06:27 PM - Music, - UK, English
Compilation from bands around Manchester.



Side one:
1 Airkraft - Move In Rhythm
2 Expelaires - Sympathy (Don't Be Taken In)
3 Clock DVA - You're Without Sound
4 Music For Pleasure - The Human Factor
5 Nightmares In Wax - Shangri-La
6 Ada Wilson and Keeping Dark - Head In The Clouds
7 Modern Eon - Choreography
8 Medium Medium - Them Or Me

Side two:
1 Radio 5 - True Colours
2 They Must Be Russians - Where Have I Seen You
3 Section 25 - After-Image
4 Art Failure - Gimmick
5 I'm So Hollow - I Don't Know
6 Wah! Heat - Hey Disco Joe
7 Stranger Than Fiction - Immortal In Mirrors
8 The Distributors - T.V. ME

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Presage(s) (1980, UK, new wave) 
Tuesday, October 6, 2020, 03:52 PM - Music, - UK, Personal, English
A sampler on the 4AD label.

I'm a sucker for covers.
For the Psychotik Tanks' Lets have a party, I liked it so much I did a cover of their version at the Debutistenfestival in the Roermond youth center S'61 (51.197252, 5.9894048), November 3rd 1984.
As equipment I used a Yamaha PortaSound PC-100, a Sinclair ZX-81 computer with a program that could modulate the save-tone (that was the only audio the ZX could produce), a microphone of an old Sharp tape recorder, the Akai GXC-46 cassette deck as booster for a Sonolor Plein Vent transistor radio that acted as an amplifier (boy, did that work) and some kind of guitar.
The radio was the same one I used for the static noise in Jah Wobble's Blueberry Hill.
The microphone was taped to my mouth but let loose halfway. Anyway, a lot of fun (for me, not sure about the audience).



Side one:
1 Psychotik Tanks - Security Idiots
2 The Last Dance - Malignant Love
3 C.V.O. - Sargasso Sea

Side two:
1 Psychotik Tanks - Let's Have A Party
2 Modern English - Home
3 Spasmodic Caress - Hit The Dead
4 Red Atkins - Hunk Of A Punk

Bonus:
wieL - Let's have a party

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Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Pinkpop 1977 (UK, symphonic rock) 
Monday, October 5, 2020, 03:28 PM - Music, - UK, English
Dutch radio recording.


original photos by Wouter van Essen

1 Instrumental
2 Blinded by the Light
3 Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)

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Avon Calling - The Bristol Compilation (1979, UK, new wave) 
Sunday, October 4, 2020, 06:21 PM - Music, - UK, English
An excelent compilation from Bristol bands.



Side one:
1 Gl*xo Babies - It's Irrational
2 Europeans - On The Continent
3 Private Dicks - Green Is In The Red
4 Moskow - Too Much Commotion
5 Essential Bop - Chronicle
6 Directors - What You've Got
7 Various Artists - Own Up

Side two:
1 Sneak Preview - Slugweird
2 The Stingrays - Sound
3 The X-Certs - Anthem
4 Apartment - The Alternative
5 The Numbers - Cross-Slide
6 Vice Squad - Nothing
7 Stereo Models - Move Fast - Stay Ahead
8 Double Vision - My Dead Mother

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