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Tuesday, August 14, 2018



Don't think I've posted much from the Midnight Cafe for a while and they have been re-sorting loads of fine fine music and re-linking stuff from ages ago and this is a peach. They have a compilation of live tracks from Van Morrison making up a live version of Astral Weeks (a favourite album - Top THREE!)




As is often (always?) the case over at the peerless Cafe the sounds are available in lossless or MP3 formats

TRACK LISTING:
Astral Weeks – Boston (05/19/72)
Beside You (Century Sound Studios, NYC, NY, USA, December 11th, 1967)
Sweet Thing (The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, USA, May 26th, 1973)
Cyprus Ave (Whita Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland, February 20th, 1979)
The Way Young Lovers Do (The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, USA, May 26th, 1973)
Madame George (Grand Opera House, Belfast, Northern Ireland, October 23rd, 1984)
Slim Slow Rider (Grand Opera House, Belfast, Northern Ireland, October 23rd, 1984)
Bonus Tracks
Sweet Thing/Astral Weeks (Casino De Montreux, Montreux, Switzerland, July 11th, 1990)
Slim Slow Rider (The Point, Dublin, Ireland, December 17th, 1995)
The Way Young Lovers Do_Town Called Paradise (Fairfield Hall, Croydon, England, November 17th, 1986)
Ballerina (Warners Publishing Studio, NYC, NY, USA, 1968)
The Way Young Lovers Do (Warners Publishing Studio, NYC, NY, USA, 1968)

this is not to be confused with Van the Man's own recording of Astral Weeks Live that is available here 


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