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Monday, January 3, 2011

Adverts - Live shows 1978

Here's three live Adverts shows from 1978. These shows are interesting because they are playing six new songs written after the first album, some of which would, in slightly different versions, end up on the second album. These were all recorded from the audience so the sound is raw. The Marquee has the best sound of the three despite some serious tape hiss.

@ The Star, Croydon 2-26-78
01. One Chord Wonders
02. Safety In Numbers
03. Bored Teenagers
04. Male Assault
05. Quickstep
06. Bombsite Boy
07. On The Roof
08. New Day Dawning
09. On Wheels
10. New Boys
11. New Church
12. Gary Gilmore's Eyes
13. Drowning Men
14. No Time To Be 21


@ Maidstone Art College, Kent 6-30-78
01. Fate Of Criminals
02. Gary Gilmore's Eyes
03. Drowning Men
04. Bombsite Boy
05. Television's Over
06. Male Assault
07. We Who Wait
08. New Boys
09. On Wheels
10. Safety In Numbers
11. Back From The Dead
12. Love Songs
13. Bored Teenagers
14. No Time To Be 21

@ Marquee, London 7-27-78 [from cassette tape]
01. Fate Of Criminals
02. Gary Gilmore's Eyes
03. Drowning Men
04. Bombsite Boy
05. Television's Over
06. Male Assault
07. New Church
08. We Who Wait
09. New Boys
10. On Wheels
11. I Surrender
12. Back From The Dead
13. Love Songs
14. Safety In Numbers
15. Bored Teenagers
16. No Time To Be 21
17. One Chord Wonders
18. The Great British Mistake

6 comments:

  1. Thanks for the post, the Croydon show is barely even hearable though... it almost sounds like muffled nails on a chalkboard almost mixed with the actual Adverts concert taken place itself...but at least I can still hear some of it. Really damaged.

    By the way, do you have any Nervous Gender by any chance you can upload?

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  2. Can't do anything about crap sound quality. It is what it is. All I can give you is what I got. Nothing by Nervous Gender.

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  3. OOOOOH!!!!! LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE IS A BIG FAN OF NERVOUS GENDER!!!! To the Anon, I have like 2 early Nervous Gender shows that I can suggest bat29 to post, so bat29, can you please post these shows on your blog? Here they are in chronological order:

    KPFK 9-79: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=98SMNOIS
    This was off a radio broadcast, but the sound quality is not as great as you would expect off a radio boot.

    Anticlub, LA 12-06-79 (audio only): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XSIHFWAR
    This was off a video, but this is not the full show sadly. I tried to find the full show, but I couldn't and this is all I could find. 6 songs, with half of them being cut... I don't even know how many songs could have been in this set. Does anyone have the full set??? If so, can you please inform bat29? Thanks.

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  4. Anyways besides this whole Nervous Gender thing, thanks for posting these Adverts shows from 1978, especially the Top Rank one from 1979. Sure, the quality on all 4 ain't that great but it is a great experience hearing them on stage, especially the Top Rank show when the guitars where replaced by keyboards which sounded very interesting!

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  5. Actually anon., there is a guitar on that Top Rank show but it is so low in the mix it's not possible to hear it. My comments were really a joke. It seems many people do not like the adverts second album because they added keyboards. When I wrote that I was just imagining how angry those people would be to hear and think they a band they loved would completely replace the guitar with keyboards and then dare to play those classic Punk songs with that arrangement. Fun.

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  6. Oh, at first I thought I believed that there was no guitar because I could rarely hear it, you got me with that! But still...even if there was a keyboard on the second album and the Top Rank show all in 1979...they sound so amazing just like they were in 1975-1978.

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