Dumbjaw - Converse Represents- 31st July 2012- The 100 Club, London

Right here's the opening act from the Converse Represents Punk night at The 100 Club.

As I have already warned you I fucked about & didnt take recording events very seriously so this aint the greatest recording quality you'll ever have in your collection- although I must admit I most definitely do have worse quality in my collection,

Its NOT track separated:


Tracks:
01 Selfish
02 Better Than You
03 We're A Riot
04 The Thirst
05 One In A Million
06 Bound & Gagged
07 I'll Give You Hell
08 Dissociative





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and here
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and here
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 The photos of Dumbjaw are mine, taken on the night

new download link here

Converse Represents - 31st July 2012 - live at the Legendary 100 Club

the 100 Club is more than just the venue for this summer’s Represent shows, it is one of the most important clubs in British musical history. For over seventy years the venue has been at the forefront of musical movements from swing and jazz through to punk, indie, reggae and Northern soul. This year the tickets were not on sale but available by signing up on the official site & names being drawn out of the hat as such - I was lucky enough to be one of those names- I only put in for the Punk night & that's what  I got-  happy days
I must admit I had every intention of going there to test my recording equipment & learn what different settings do so that I could, in the future, deliver enjoyable recordings to pass on - especially with 2 PIL gigs coming up this week
 well that was the intention ....... I fucked up, BIG TIME- sorry guys

the reality was that me & my mates met up in London 4 hours before the doors opened & we got pissed- I mean proper blurry eyed, wobbly legs pissed- this was well before we had even set foot through the 100 Club's doors

Once inside the100 Club, I claimed my free limited edition T shirt (given out to the first 100 punters) & hit the bar - no surprises there then and I must admit I'm chuffed with my T shirt.. very sad of me I know

But things got worse, all my plans & good intentions went right out of the window.  I went to the front of the stage, almost on top of the monitors, got crushed in crowds, jumped up & down like a teenager & fell over a few times- all of this with my little recorder doing its job, sitting in my shirt pocket. I did at least remember to press record when the bands came on - I even managed to record 5 of the 6 bands (I really have no idea what I did to lose Goldblade's recording)

Unfortunately this means the recordings are pretty poor- lots of annoying vibrations, the sound quality is up & down like a yoyo- 

in truth I HAVE already learnt quite a bit from this so hopefully my PIL recordings will be better- I doubt they will be perfect
I have learnt the following when recording  (some of this might help any of you wanting to try your first experience in doing the same)
1. Dont stand in part of the crowd where you will get jostled/crushed/knocked over
2. down the front of a gig is great for having fun, crap for recording
3. you have to try & stand as still as reasonably possible if you are making a covert recording- this will help with reducing vibrations as well as dipping sound quality
4 stand a reasonable distance from the stage to benefit from the venues speakers
5 low mic sensitivity for loud venues
6 filters on for heavy bass
7 VERY IMPORTANT _ set recording levels manually NOT on auto- being that lazy will only piss you off the next day when you listen back to what you have

finally 
8 ALCOHOL- leave it out if you are like me & cant just have 1 or 2 when I'm with my mates- it really does fuck up the best made plans & at the time you wont care....until the next day

All in all it was a great night, very enjoyable & lots of fun
Even though I'm quite ashamed/embarrassed by the quality of the recordings I made I'm still going to be sharing them with you 

You never know you might like them???

They are all lossless, taken straight from the master, no artwork & not track separated (they're not worth the time or effort) 

I'll be posting them over the next few days (but def not Wednesday or Thursday as I'll be seeing PIL)

Honestly guys if you download them please pop back & leave brutally honest feedback about what you've heard- we can all have a giggle about these ones 

Glen Matlock - 16th November 2011 - Rabid In The Kennel Session, Breakthru Radio

Here's another obscure recording. again, as far as I know, not available anywhere else.
Its a Radio Session from Glen, recorded last year for the Jack Rabid Show on Breakthru Radio.
Again there are 2 versions, 1 with the DJ intro and the second a cleaned up version

Tracks:
01 - Born Running
02 - Burning Sounds
03 - On Something
04 - Somewhere Somehow

Originally broadcast 16th November 2011

MP3 @ 320 kbps

Originally recorded & supplied to Acid Drops by Guttersnipe

Thanks for another great share

PIL - 29th June 2012 - Belgrade Calling Festival, USCE Park, Serbia

Yet another treat for you all to enjoy! This one is PIL's performance from the Belgrade Calling Festival at the end of last month- The gig was broadcast on Serbia's Radio B92 station.
In the file you get 2 copies. The first has been track separated & cleaned up by Guttersnipe, who sent it to me to share with you all. The second is the unedited version as broadcast on radio.
The only surprise for me was that there was a lack of songs from the 'This Is PIL' album.
So here it is- download & enjoy!
Tracks:
01 This Is Not A Love Song
02 Deeper Water
03 Albatross
04 Death Disco
05 Warrior
06 One Drop
07 Bags
08 Chant
09 Rise
10 Open Up

Supplied by Guttersnipe (track separated version) - Cheers for this
WAV here

Second version is .OGG file (playable on VLC with no problems)
supplied by stzeross using Screamer Radio to download
I'm afraid it skips a bit in places but it's all that's floating around at the moment

PIL - 19th July 2012 - Xfm Radio Session

Here's a little something special for you - an Acid Drops exclusive!

As Xfm celebrates 20 years in 2012 Xfm's X-Posure with John Kennedy this week aired Public Image Ltd's first new radio session in over two decades!

John aired the new session this week playing one song each night from Monday to Thursday.  The session was recorded on 19th July 2012

I ripped the tracks each night & have put them together for you all to enjoy!

Tracks: (Original broadcast date in brackets)

01 One Drop (23 July 2012)

02 Deeper Water (24 July 2012)

03 Out Of The Woods (25 July 2012)

04 Reggie's Song (26 July 2012)

get ya FLAC upgrade here

updated 16th September 2015

The International Swingers - 8th December 2011 - Metro Theatre, Sydney, Australia

The International Swingers is a rock & roll band. Another example of well known musicians with a great history behind them that love playing live. Even though they may have been known for original successes in different genres (maybe not so different)

 Clem Burke, a founding member of Blondie, is the drummer.  

On bass is Glen Matlock, I don't really need to say anything about Glen do I?

 Guitarist James Stevenson played with Gen X, Chelsea and Gene Loves Jezebel, among others. 

The front man is Gary Twinn, singer for Twenty Flight Rockers, Speedtwinn & Supernaut.

Glen & Gary had previously worked together in the short lived Dead Horse.

If you love rock 'n' roll you'll love this gig. A great, quality sounding MP3 @320 kbps

I'm not gonna lie -I'm a bit unsure about copyright issues on this recording as it was ripped from a streaming site- So if anyone has a problem with me posting this please email me & I will remove the content in full

Because of this please feel free to share via traditional methods but dont put it on another site. As you know my blog is members only & cant be found by internet search engines- also please don't post my link for this gig anywhere else as I don't want any grief from mediafire cancelling my account (they have been known to do that)

Here's the full show

Tracks:

01 Out Of Control

02 Hanging On The Telephone

03  Friday On My Mind

04 I'm Not Your Stepping Stone

05 Fall In Love With You

06  I Like It Both Ways

07 Burning Sounds

08 Jealous

09 What I Like About You

10 Stay With Me

11 All The Young Dudes

12 Dancing With Myself

13 Call Me

14 Pretty Vacant

15 C'mon Everybody + Let's Get Together

16 God Save The Queen

17 No Fun

18 Born To Lose

get MP3 here

Thanks to GS for the snatch - good work mate

PIL - 21st April 1992, The​ Ritz​, New​ York​, USA​

There's not too many gigs from 1992 floating about so I'm happy to pass this little gem onto you all.
Pretty terrible audience recording really.
01 This Is Not A Love Song (cuts in)
02 Criminal
03 Love Hope
04 Think Tank
05 Rules & Regulations
06 Disappointed
07 Acid Drops
08 Cruel
09 The Body
encore
10 Covered
11 Rise

FLAC rip from CD-R I got in a trade

PIL - 13th May 1986, Capitol Theatre, Aberdeen Scotland

Another audience recording, another hard to find bootleg dug out of my archives - Enjoy!

Tracks:

01 Kashmir

02 FFF

03 Annalisa

04 Fishing

05 Poptones

06 Pretty Vacant

07 Banging The Door

08 Flowers Of Romance

09 Bags

10 Tie Me To The Length Of That

11 Round

12 Home

13 Public Image

14 Rise

15 Low Life

16 World Destruction

17 Ease

FLAC  rip from CD-R

PIL - 7th August 1987, Hultsfred Festival, Folketspar, Sweden

Another one where I cant remember who sent me the recording (apologies for my absent mindedness)

It's a short set as the band walked off stage after 6 tracks, so this is the whole gig!

Tracks:

01 Rise

02 Low Life

03 Open & Revolving

04 Hard Times

05 World Destruction

06 Home

Photo from the gig supplied Johan W from Sweden - Thank You
MP3 here

The Jimmy Norton Explosion - 30th July 1979 - John Peel Session

I thought I had posted this before but couldnt find it on the blog. So here it is (again???)

this band later became known as The Spectres. 

The Jimmy Norton Explosion - Peel Session

Recorded - 30/07/1979

Broadcast - 06/08/1979

Producer - Tony Wilson

Engineer - Dave Dade

Studio - Maida Vale 4

TRACKLIST

01 Getting Away With Murder

02 Just Like Lazarus

03 Ambition

04 Lost In A Landslide

LINE UP

Glen Matlock (Bass, Lead Vocals)

Danny Kustow (Guitar, Backing Vocals)

Budgie (Drums)

get FLAC here

Marky Dread artwork supplied