Steve Diggle - Demos 1-27-81

Here are some demo songs recorded by Steve Diggle in his home studio one month before the Buzzcocks split up in 1981. These songs feature guitar, drum machine and some vocals. None of the songs are finished and only the song Drift Away apparently ever got released (on a Flag Of Convenience album). These recordings provide insight into the songwriting process and also gets one wondering what a fourth Buzzcocks album might have sounded like in 1981 had they continued at that time.

track list:
01. Can You Dig It
02. Drift Away
03. Dancing At Dawn
04. By My Side
05. Don't Come Back

Athletico Spizz '80 - Marquee Club, London 8-06-80

This is a very good sounding soundboard recording.

setlist:
01. Energy Crisis
02. Rhythm Inside
03. Amnesia
04. No Room
05. Effortless
06. Person Impersonator
07. Spocks Missing
08. Central Park
09. Red & Black
10. Hot Deserts
11. Soldier Soldier
12. Where's Captain Kirk
13. Cold City
14. Virginia Plain

Madness - Live 1979/1983

Here's two shows from the Nutty Boys. The Bournemouth show is a good audience recording. The prize of that show is the cover of the Kinks hit song Lola. The Rock Hour show is very good sound but suffers from some FM interference buzz and sadly my favorite song Baggy Trousers cuts off. Still a great show.

@ Stateside Rooms, Bournemouth 12-16-79
01. One Step Beyond
02. Mistakes
03. Believe Me
04. My Girl
05. Swan Lake
06. Razor Blade Alley
07. Rockin In A Flat
08. Tarzan's Nuts
09. Mummy's Boy
10. Young And The Old
11. Land Of Hope And Glory
12. In The Middle Of The Night
13. Bed And Breakfast Man
14. The Prince
15. Night Boat To Cairo
16. Madness
17. Lola [Kinks]
18. One Step Beyond

@ BBC Rock Hour 5-29-83
01. House Of Fun
02. Disappear
03. Close Escape
04. Bed and Breakfast Man
05. The Sun and The Rain
06. Blue Skinned Beast
07. Embarrassment
08. The Rise and Fall
09. Sunday Morning
10. Razorblade Alley
11. Tomorrow's Just Another Day
12. Grey Day
13. Baggy Trousers

Secret Affair - University Of Bristol, Bristol England 2-11-80

Recently, while going through my music files, I discovered that I have this show twice from two different sources and with two different track lists. So, I edited them together into one long, more complete, show. There's also a third source out there with one other song I don't have - http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f90/secret-affair-bristol-university-1980-a-71655.html - does anyone have this one? This is a radio broadcast and the sound quality is excellent.

***Thanks to Pip the third source has been acquired and the missing song added.

setlist:
01. Glory Boys
02. Shake and Shout
03. Road Runner [Junior Walker & the All Stars]
04. Going to a Go-Go [Miracles]
05. When the Show is Over
06. Don't Look Down
07. New Dance
08. Let Your Heart Dance
09. One Way World
10. Time For Action
11. I'm Not Free (But I'm Cheap)

Buzzcocks - Top Rank, Brighton 3-08-78

Here is a better than usual audience recording from our favorite Punk Popsters.

setlist:
01. Breakdown
02. Fast Cars
03. I Don’t Mind
04. Noise Annoys
05. Autonomy
06. Get On Our Own
07. Sixteen
08. Walking Distance
09. Boredom
10. Whatever Happened To
11. Moving Away From The Pulsebeat
12. Fiction Romance
13. Love You More
14. Love Battery
15. Oh Shit
16. What Do I Get
17. Time’s Up

Drones - Skunx, London 4-20-82

Here's an audience recording from one of the Drones 1982 reunion shows.Three songs from this gig were released on their Expectations - Tapes From The Attic 75-82 CD in 1997. Sound quality is good.

Some info here: http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/drones/albums.jhtml?albumId=500017

setlist:
01. No More Time
02. I Just Want To Be Myself
03. Movement
04. Be My Baby [Ronettes]
05. The Change
06. City Drones
07. Bone Idol
08. Lookalikes
09. Persecution Complex
10. Lift Off The Bans
11. Lookalikes

Damned - Royal College of Art, London 10-19-78

They played this show as The Doomed. Teenage Dream and Second Time Around are introduced as White Cats songs and Anti-pope is introduced as another King song. Apparently Mick Rossi from Slaughter & The Dogs made a guest appearance but that performance doesn't seem to be on this tape. This show sounds like it is a soundboard recording. I stripped away a lot of tape hiss but some still remains. It's a good listen.

info here: http://www.whiterabbitskgs.co.uk/set_info/1978.htm#19781019

setlist:
01. Teenage Dream
02. Second Time Around
03. Problem Child
04. Burglar
05. Ballroom Blitz [Sweet]
06. Looking at You [MC5]
07. Help [Beatles]
08. Stab Your Back
09. Antipope
10. New Rose
11. Jet Boy Jet Girl [Elton Motello]
12. Stretcher Case
13. Neat Neat Neat