The reason this has been found is due to musical associate Progsprog, who sent it to me. So a big thanks to him. I've looked high and low, and this hasn't been available on the Internet for a long time. Let's hope this puts it back into wide circulation, because it's a great concert.
Thompson broke up with his wife and musical duo partner Linda Thompson in 1982. He put out a solo album, "Hands of Kindness," in 1983. Many of the songs here are from that, though he also does songs written earlier in his musical career, as well as some covers ("Amaryllis - Nonesuch a la Mode de France," "Pennsylvania 6-5000," "Danny Boy," and "Great Balls of Fire").
Most of this was broadcast by the BBC, and later given to me by Progsprog. But not all of it. It turns out there also is a surprisingly good sounding audience bootleg of this exact concert. I compared the two, and found three songs on the audience boot that weren't broadcast by the BBC: "Wall of Death," "Down Where the Drunkards Roll," and "Great Balls of Fire." So I did some audio editing to try to bring them up to the same sound quality as the rest. I used the MVSEP program to boost the lead vocals relative to the instruments, and also to erase the crowd noise in the middle of those songs. Furthermore, I used the X-Minus program to get rid of some excessive echo on them. The final result is pretty impressive. Most of the time, it's hard to tell which ones of these are from the audience boot, except for the different sound of audience applause at the ends, and a brief flawed area in the middle of "Wall of Death" that I couldn't fix.
Furthermore, the first 15 or so seconds of the first song, "The Wrong Heartbeat," were missed. So I patched in the missing portion from the audience boot. That's why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title.
This album is an hour and 31 minutes long.
01 The Wrong Heartbeat [Edit]
02 A Poisoned Heart and a Twisted Memory
03 Tear Stained Letter
04 How I Wanted To
05 talk
06 Amaryllis - Nonesuch a la Mode de France [Instrumental]
07 Don't Renege on Our Love
08 Shoot Out the Lights
09 talk
10 Hand of Kindness
11 Wall of Death
12 talk
13 Pennsylvania 6-5000 [Instrumental]
14 talk
15 A Man in Need
16 Two Left Feet
17 talk
18 Back Street Slide
19 talk
20 Both Ends Burning
21 Danny Boy
22 talk
23 Down Where the Drunkards Roll
24 Great Balls of Fire
all songs Richard Thompson
