Squeeze - 1992-08-09 - Joliet, IL (FM)
a SPEEDY SPECIAL
I think I would always try and post a Squeeze set and like Speedy I have seen them a few times and the best gig I ever saw was around the time of Some Fantastic Place which I forever associate with the loss of a friend
Squeeze1992-08-09Rialto Theatre Joliet ILWRXT-FM Broadcast
01. Pulling Mussels From A Shell
02. Labelled With Love
03. Is This Love?
04. Footpronts
05. Another Nail In My Heart
06. Up The Junction
07. The Day I Got Home
08. The Truth
09. Tempted
10. Hourglass
11. Take Me I'm Yours
12. Annie, Get Your Gun
13. Goodbye Girl
14. Black Coffee In Bed
Speedy says: I've seen Squeeze on 2 occasions - in August 1981 at the South Mountain "Music Festival" - in reality, the side of a hill - and in August 1985, at Pier 84 in New York.
Today's post goes back to 1991 when Squeeze released their 9th studio album, entitled Play. The liner notes to the album are, appropriately, in the form of a play that incorporates the lyrics of the songs in a script that also references the plays Our Town by Thornton Wilder and Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. While the album did not have much commerical success, crtical reviews were strong, with AllMusic gving the disc 4 stars, calling it "Squeeze's best post-reunion album" and naming the tracks The Truth and Walk A Straight Line as "particular highlights". This FM broadcast captures Squueze on tour in suppprt of Play about a year after its release, in Joliet on August 9, 1992, 34 years ago today.
for Speedy
Squeeze - Labelled with Love (Live at Liverpool Philharmonic, 2019)
two of the most underrated songwriters in the British pop canon and in Glen a fine fine guitarist