Art communication:

 

 REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2021

Emily Barker - The Woman Who Planted Trees

ALBUMS OF THE YEAR

1. EMILY BARKER -  A Dark Murmuration of Words | Emily Barker - Bandcamp
2.    - EMILY BARKER: 'Flight Path Rhymes' - NEW META ALBUM!
3. STEPHEN FRETWELL - Busy Guy
4. NAT MYERS! - 'Hobo Wine & Remedy Blues'
5. MARTHA WAINWRIGHT - Love Will Be Reborn
6. AMY MACDONALD  'The Human Demands'
7. WILLIE WATSON - 'Folk Singer no 2'
8. BELLOWHEAD  'Reassembled'.
9. RADIOHEAD - KID A MNESIA
10. JOHNNY FLYNN 'Lost in The Ceddar Wood' (with Robert MacFarlane)
11. THEA GILMORE - 'AFTERLIGHT' & 'The EMANCIPATION OF EVA GREY'
12. KATHRYN WILLIAMS/CAROL ANN DUFFY - 'MIDNIGHT CHORUS'

Nat Myers - Willow Witchin Woman

Kathryn Williams - Midnight Chorus 

BEST SINGLES:

• NAT MYERS "WILLOW WITCHIN'!"
• WET LEG - Chaise Long
•  - WET LEG SINGLE NO 2 'WET DREAM'
• ANDREW BIRD "SOUVENIRS" [BY JOHN PRINE]
• RADIOHEAD - IF YOU SAY THE WORD
• BELLOWHEAD - NEW YORK GIRLS - ROLL ALABAMA ROLL!
• JOSIE PROTO - I JUST WANNA WALK HOME
• AMY MACDONALD - 'SPARK'
• EMILY BARKER (FEAT. FRANK TURNER) BOUND FOR HOME 
•  LINDA ORTEGA - RUN DOWN NEIGHBOURHOOD!

ANDREW BIRD - SOUVENIRS (John Prine) live on his porch

BEST NEW BAND/ARTIST:

NAT MYERS

WET LEG

ELLI DE MON - COUNTIN THE BLUES

AYNSLEY LISTER

(MS LAUREN SPEAR) LE REN

RADIOHEAD - IF YOU SAY THE WORD (Best VIDEO CONTENDER)

PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR - ROUTE 

BOOKS:

KATHRYN WILLIAMS' debut novel - 'The Ormering Tide'

THE CHAMELEON POET by John Bauldie

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

Lin Yung Cheng - art photography
Sand Mooney Else - photography online blog

Those we have lost:

NANCI GRIFFITH - folk singer songwriter

JON HASSELL  - musican

HELEN MCCRORY  - actor

MICHAEL NESMITH- singer songwriter

SEAN LOCK - comedian

LOU OTTENS, creator of the cassette tape

U ROY - Dub master and toaster

DON EVERLY- singer songwriter

CHARLIE WATTS  - Drummer and 'band leader'

“LEE SCRATCH” PERRY - musician producer

CHRIS BARBER - musican

BUNNY WAILER - musician

MONTE HELLMAN - director 

FRED DELLAR - writer

DUSTY HILL DEAD- guitarist

CHUCK CLOSE painter/artist

MICHAEL CHAPMAN - musician guitarist songwriter

PADDY MOLONEY - musician band leader

PAT FISH OF JAZZ BUTCHER (64)

PAUL RITTER - actor

ROB REINER - Maverick genius film director 

DEAN STOCKWELL - actor

TERRENCE 'ASTRO' WILSON - singer

ROBBIE SHAKESPEARE -bassman and producer

MICK ROCK - art rock photographer

STEPHEN SONDHEIM - musical genius

JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO - actor

MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS - actor

TOM T HALL -C&W singer songwriter

UNA STUBBS -actor

B.J. THOMAS - musician

LLOYD PRICE - musician

YAPHET KOTTO -actor

GEORGE SEGAL - actor

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI -poet legend and owner of City Lights bookstore and publisher 

PHIL SPECTOR - maverick music producer

TV PROGRAMME/SERIES OF THE YEAR

Hi-lights:

Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton (played by a mesmerising Martin Clunes here showing he can do really serious!) is tasked with reviewing Operation Minstead, an eleven-year, multi-million-pound enquiry to catch the 'Night Stalker'.After the first series looked at the true life killing of Amélie Delagrange and implicates him in the murder of Milly Dowler by Levi Bellfield Sutton is tasked to catch up a cold case of the so called Night Stalker ( Delroy Grant) which I had just watched a real crime profile of the case so it was timely and made a truly horrific criminal case edge of the seat watchable with a back up cast including the brilliant Claudie Blakley. I found Martin here little short of sheer brilliance.

FROM THE VAULTS WITH GUY GARVEY - brilliant archive footage from the television vaults from district tele to obscure second takes in pop programmes Guy Garvey gave the voice over to a brilliant series of videos

STONEHENGE - BBC The Lost Circle Revealed

DYLAN THOMAS - FROM GRAVE TO CRADLE - ARENA BBC 4

Keith Jarrett - The Art of Improvisation (BBC)

TV films and series:

Together

(BBC Two) Written by Dennis Kelly, directed by Stephen Daldry and starring James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan, this Covid two-hander certainly didn’t want for talent. A couple are, like the rest of the country, stuck inside together. And, like the rest of the country, they’ve started to hate each other. The real anger, though, is reserved for the government. As such, especially for those who lost a loved one in the first flush of Coronavirus, it was a staggeringly hard watch.

Starstruck

(BBC One) In New Zealand comic Rose Matafeo’s lovable romcom, her character Jessie is having a strange old time living in London, with a titchy flat, tedious jobs – and the fact that she can’t stop bumping into a movie star named Tom Kapoor (Nikesh Patel) that she had a one night stand with.

Motherland

(BBC Two) By its third series, you pretty much know where a sitcom will go. That’s true of Motherland, which barely attempted to deviate from its formula of middle-class mums being horrible to each other. But why bother when the blueprint is so good?

Ghosts

(BBC One) The best all-round British sitcom in years, Ghosts’ third series mined slightly more heartfelt territory than before. Not only were the phantoms fleshed out more fully, but the frankly wonderful Charlotte Ritchie’s Alison found herself yearning for a family that couldn’t quite manifest itself. As beautiful as it was funny.

The Cleaner

(BBC One) Greg Davies adapted and starred in this adaptation of the German series Der Tatortreiniger, about a man tasked with removing crime scene evidence from the homes of several guest stars. It might not be the most original premise, but when The Cleaner worked, it really worked.

Alma’s Not Normal

(BBC Two) Sophie Willan’s autobiographical show about the childhood she describes as being “the baby in Trainspotting, if she’d lived” won a comedy Bafta for the pilot alone. So this six-episode series, which saw her move from a job in a sandwich shop to becoming a sex worker and finally joining a theatre troupe, was an absolute riotous delight.

Help

(Channel 4) Another one-off Covid drama, Help starred Jodie Comer and Stephen Graham as a care home worker and resident respectively. Jack Thorne’s script surged with rage at the indifference with which the care sector was left to rot as the first wave of the pandemic rolled in. There’s plenty of warmth, but you’re never allowed to forget who the villains are.

Stephen Fretwell - The Long Water (Busy Guy album)

Guilt

(BBC Scotland/iPlayer) The first series of Neil Forsyth’s crime thriller was a word-of-mouth hit, largely thanks to Mark Bonnar’s psychotic growl of a performance. This year’s second series lost a little of its pace, but was still as compelling as ever. Let’s all cross our fingers for a third series.

Inside No 9

(BBC Two) By now you could be forgiven for taking Inside No 9 for granted. But this year, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton managed to find even greater heights. There was a Brexit episode, an episode about the uneasy relationship between fans and creators, an episode where Sian Clifford played against type twice at once. The invention here continues to be phenomenal.

This Way Up

(Channel 4) Like Back to Life, the second series of Aisling Bea’s This Way Up improved on its first. This time, as well as focusing on the recovery of Bea’s character Aine, the show was also bold enough to tackle Covid as a storyline. The fact that it was almost entirely alone in making the subject work with this little distance makes it doubly worthy of praise.

Unforgotten

(ITV) A dusty old survivor like this ITV detective show always runs the risk of becoming set in its ways. Not so with Unforgotten, which this year said goodbye to its star the constantly reliable Nicola Walker. It’s bittersweet: she was perfect in this role, but now she’s freed up to become an Olivia Colman-style megastar.

Le Ren - May Hard Times Pass Us By

Vigil

(BBC One) How to create one of the most nail-biting televisual experiences of the year? Take a tense, twisty procedural plot, get Suranne Jones to fire on all cylinders as a trauma-racked action hero badass, then cram her into a ready-made environment for a claustrophobic whodunnit: a nuclear sub.

Time

(BBC One) Jimmy McGovern’s hard, horrifying look at prison life was seen largely through the eyes of former teacher Mark Cobden (Sean Bean), who was serving his first stretch. Bean’s performance was a masterclass in understatement, communicated mainly through silence and shuffles on the wing – and it made for even more devastating television.

Line of Duty

(BBC One) Now overshadowed by its finale, dismissed as anticlimactic by viewers and aggressively defended at length by Jed Mercurio, Line of Duty’s sixth series was just as tight and knotty as ever. And it absolutely pummelled everything else on television to pieces. Sixteen million people watched its final episode in May. In 2021, that’s incredible.

Disappointments that I don’t have Netflix or Sky, HBO, Apple TV or Amazon Prime TV

Get Back (Disney+) 

WandaVision, 

Squidgame, 

Mare of Easttown, 

Josie Proto - I just wanna walk home

RADIO

AMANDA KNOX INTERVIEWED ON BBC RADIO FOUR

Here . . . . .

FILM OF THE YEAR: ON TELEVISION

PARASITE - BONG JOON HO

Things that have kept us sane during lockdown

Kate Rusby - Singy Songy Sessions

well they spanned 2020 really but did finish in Spring of 2021 (March) so it still figures and all the posts from such folk did much to keep our sprits up

Ricky Gervais - Daily check ins from Facebook

Hilarious and uplifting too!

The Self Isolating Bird Club - Chris Packham and step daughter Megan 'Beast' McGubbin

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8IZMOohZNxP5thvS9sMqVy8cq8NX3Mou

 EMILY BARKER at the Downend Folk Club

FOLK ON FOOT THE LIVING ROOM CONCERTS!

Art communication:

BRILLIANT Cartoon on VACCINES! by Maki Naro (the Nib)

The Nib - Vaccines and How they work - Maki Naro

NEWS:

Brian Eno - Launches Sonos Radio HD

Brian Eno - Introducing The Lighthouse

Emily Barker returning to her homeland with her husband Lukas Drinkwater had to self isolate in quarantine in their hotel so what to do well record an album of cover songs obvs!!!

This came as a revelation by the Australian singer songwriter with his diatribe upon the green eco issues of the day . . . . . . . someone ensure they put this album out PLEASE!

Emily Barker ( and Lukas Drinkwater) - Sleep Australia Sleep

Song of the Day! Donna Summer 'I Feel Love!'

 

Donna Summer was born as LaDonna Adrian Gaines in Boston, Massachusetts on this day in 1948. She feels love.

Don't we all but . . . . . . .

TURN IT UP!

again yes I bought it when it came out (12" extended mix only!) and no I wasn't so much a disco diva but Georgio Moroder had that hook!

A life long non-smoker Donna died from lung cancer in 2012 and had a theory

that living in plain view of Ground Zero the fumes and toxic dust from 9/11 gave her the cancer . . . . . who is to say otherwise . . . . . . . .? She was 63

THE BEATLES - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM! 1964 and watching 'GET BACK'!

 A Mid-Summmer Night's Dream

&

GET BACK

The Beatles at Twickenham Film Stage Studios by Linda McCartney (damn she was good!)

Pretty sure that's Trevor Peacock (Jim Trott from Vicar of Dibley and Shakespearean actor) introducing the play and Long John Baldry heckling from the audience amongst others . . . . . . . . . 

Sounds of 71 says

The Beatles in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, 1964

This is one of the best f****** things you will ever see: The Beatles performing Shakespeare more or less as written. 

Specifically, the play within a play from Act 5, Scene 1 of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with John and Paul as lovers Pyramus and Thisbe, George as The Man in the Moon, and Ringo as a lion. Plus a goat, playing itself.

This was part of a British TV special Around The Beatles, recorded April 28, 1964, when celebrations of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth were in full swing. These boys (all in their early 20s) were up for anything, and here’s a prime example. 

You’ve seen a million photos of this on tumblr, and a few gifs, but when I found this clip, I knew you needed to see it too!

 

Just finished watching Get Back thanks to my daughter and her wonderful fellah for sorting that out for me (!) and what an emotional roller coaster that was, (SPOILER: Episode One made me actually weep! as George leaves . . . . . . ) although obviously I wouldn't let people know quite how much it affected me!!    ? . . . . . . . . . . . ..  !

Could conceivably have done with a final edit  (there IS a lot of throw away jamming during episode two and three but hey . . . I am not really complaining) 7 and half hours of bliss!

check these quotes out from various other sources and always check out The Beatles Bible too

INT: Who are some contemporary artists you admire most? 

George: There are so many, I’m madly in love with Smokey Robinson, from the old Miracles. When the Beatles first came here everybody was amazed that we all liked Tamla/Motown which was at that time a relatively new company. I like Smokey but just to try and pick one or two, Smokey Robinson is my favorite. I like Dickey Betts, there are a lot of guitar players – Ry Cooder I think is sensational and I hope Warner Bros. will try and sell a few more of his albums.

—
George interviewed by Steven Rosen at Warner Bros. Records offices in Burbank, California (1974)

~

“Pure Smokey started out with nice chord changes. I’ve always liked Smokey Robinson and he’s probably one of the best songwriters around. He writes great lyrics and great melodies, and he is fantastic to see in concert, because one tends to forget how many good tunes he has written. He brought out an album called Pure Smokey, and I’ve met him once or twice.

Sometimes you get an idea and write a specific song, but other times – often – it turns itself into whatever it’s going to be – with the effort put into it – and it turned into Pure Smokey.

I’m trying to make the point – if I like someone I want to say ‘I like you’. I don’t want to die and then to think ‘Oh I forgot to tell them I liked them’.

Throughout my lifetime I’d hesitate I’d feel some joy But before I showed my thanks It became too late

So this song turned into an all purpose thing of generally trying to show appreciation, and then to focus on my appreciation of Smokey.”

— George Harrison, I, Me, Mine (1980)

~

“Of all Tamla-Motown acts, George listened hardest to The Miracles, whose leader, Smokey Robinson had an ‘effortless butterfly of a voice**’ that he would never bring himself to criticize.”

— Alan Clayson, George Harrison (2001)

** “It’s hard to see the greats go, and I’m a big fan of so many kinds of rock and popular music, from Bob Marley to Cole Porter to Smokey Robinson to Hoagy Carmichael. I mean, I wrote ‘Pure Smokey’ on 33 1/3 as my little tribute to his brilliant songwriting and his effortless butterfly of a voice. The Beatles did Smokey’s ‘You Really Got A Hold On Me,’ and there was a song John did that was very much influenced by Smokey - ‘This Boy.’ If you listen to the middle eight of ‘This Boy,’ it was John trying to do Smokey. It suddenly occurs to me that there’s even a line on ‘When We Was Fab’ where I sing, ‘And you really got a hold on me.’”

— George Harrison interviewed for Musician Magazine (November 1987 Edition)

“And this was one of the main faults of John and Paul. They were so busy being John and Paul, they failed to realize who else was around at the time.”

- George Harrison, West 57th Street interview with Selina Scott (1987)

“If anything happened to one of us we wouldn’t go on,” Paul told me. He was standing beside me in the kitchen of my London flat while I fixed some scrambled eggs, Paul’s favourite meal, for a very late breakfast. I nearly upset the pan as I looked up at him.


“It’s true,” Paul said. “When Ringo was ill we didn’t want to do the tour of Holland and Australia. It’d be a drag without him, we thought. If it hadn’t been a temporary illness, then that would have been it. We’d all have packed in.


“If one of us dropped out the group would break up. We definitely wouldn’t perform as three Beatles. I hate that idea. It’d be—well, like the son of somebody famous trying to get by on his father’s name.”


I ladled out the food. “But I thought Jimmy Nicol did a good job for those twelve days,” I said.


“Oh sure,” Paul said. “We got along all right. Jimmy was fine. But he wasn’t Ringo. And it was Ringo we missed.”

— Paul interviewed by Alan Freeman for Rave Magazine, No. 8 (September 1964)

 

“As soon as he dropped Paul at the entrance, Bill Corbett [Beatles Chauffeur] headed back into town on an errand—to pick up a couple of dozen shirts and casuals which were being specially made up from Paul’s drawings.


Between them, Paul and John Lennon are the creative side of the group. And apart from songwriting, one of Paul’s big interests is designing gear for himself and the others.


He has been painting since he was twelve—in fact, he won his school’s art prize. As you’d expect from a Beatle, his preference was for action painting.”

 

Paul interviewed by Alan Freeman for Rave Magazine, No. 8 (September 1964)

There was a knock at my door. Paul sat up and grinned a welcome to Bill the chauffeur as he came in carrying a pile of boxes. “I got the shirts, Paul,” he said.


“Let’s see them” Paul said, eagerly tearing off the string as if he was opening a birthday present.


He took out one shirt after another, all very sharp. A white one with a black velvet collar, a few in deep reds and blues with the latest big buttons, three open-weave casuals tailored in sackcloth and silk.


“Want to try one?” Paul said. In five minutes the flat was like Carnaby Street on a Saturday morning as we tried on Paul’s designs.


Listen. A certain Brian Epstein knows a little about clothes. If anything ever splits the Beatles, he and Paul could make a No 1 living in the rag trade!


Paul’s a keen eye for price, too! What he paid to have that gear made up would make some big clothing names blink. It was less than half what you’d expect to shell out in a good shop.

— Paul interviewed by Alan Freeman for Rave Magazine, No. 8 (September 1964) 

Paul Brady - Arthur McBride

 A song for to rouse us from Christmas morning you say? . . . . . . . . why of course that calls for a tale of some rowdy dow-dow when English Soldiers tried in vain to raise recruits to the Queens Army from the Irish . . . . . . . . . . 

One for my Gaelic roots unashamedly! 

Long gathering dust on a shelf this is Tiernan McBride's 1977 film of Paul Brady's song 'Arthur McBride'. 

A wonderful document of a wonderful song.

Stevie Wonder - Live on Sesame Street

SUPERSTITION!

April 12, 1973, Season 4, Episode 0513. About to enter high school when this originally aired, I was supposed to have outgrown Sesame Street by now, but nobody should outgrow THIS: Stevie Wonder fully into the peak of his powers, leading a scorching jam on “Superstition”, the most blazing funk you may ever behold.

There’s so much to love about this video! One of the best live recordings I’ve ever heard (every instrument is crystal clear, a true feat for early 70s TV), a 19 year old Ray Parker (who’d write and perform the original Ghostbusters theme) on guitar, two guys seriously bringing the horns, this kid on the balcony at :39 and again at 4:10 who’s dancing for us all, multiple shout-outs to Sesame Street along the way, and not one but TWO false endings ‘CAUSE STEVIE AIN’T FINISHED JAMMING YET, Y’ALL. 

The thing is, Sesame Street was more than a TV show to me. It inspired me. It shaped my career choices (I became a teacher, worked in the inner city in Baltimore and DC, and later made nature documentaries shaped by those amazing little animal shorts on the show), but more broadly, Sesame Street was a vision of the urban utopia I wanted to live in. 

This was true for the performers in some ways, too. Sonia Manzano (”Maria”) joined the show in 1971, and when asked in 2015 about the single most standout moment in her 44 years on the show, this is the one she chose.

“The whole studio rocked out and it was great because, white people, black people, young people, old people — everybody was on the same page,“ she said.

“It was a moment of clarity. You know, we started this show, we thought we were going to end racism, we were going to close the education gap. … We had big dreams! And moments like Stevie being on the show gave us a glimpse of the way things could be.”

So prepare to jam, yes, but also open yourself to the possibilities of this world of Wonder.

TURN IT UP!

with Thanks to Sounds of '71

AS WE HEAD TOWARDS NEW YEAR

THE BEST OF 

THE END OF THE YEAR SHOW 2021

So people have posted some nice stuff over the Christmas period and the last few days as we head towards 2022!

Take your pic! (sic) . . . . . . . . . . . 

LATER: Jools Holland Vol One :: Brit Beat  (The Right Ear of Nash!)

https://blonderazorblade.blogspot.com/2021/12/various-artists-later-volume-one-brit.html

Various Artists: ...Later Volume One: Brit Beat

TREON274

 A compilation album featuring artists from the "Britpop" era. All are live performances recorded at "Later with Jools Holland" show.

Tracklist:

01 - Paul Weller - The Changingman
02 - The Charlatans - Just Lookin'
03 - Supergrass - Alright
04 - Elastica - Car Song
05 - Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You
06 - Ocean Colour Scene - The Day We Caught The Train
07 - Ash - Goldfinger
08 - Suede - Heroine
09 - McAlmont/Butler - Yes
10 - Oasis -Wonderwall (Acoustic Version)
11 - Radiohead - The Bends
12 - Super Furry Animals - If You Don't Want Me To Destroy You
13 - Audioweb - Sleeper
14 - The Auteurs - Lenny Valentino
15 - Cast - Finetime
16 - The Bluetones - Slight Return
17 - Blur - The Universal
18 - Manic Street Preachers - Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
19 - Pulp - I Spy

 

Then there's these too:

David Bowie :: For My Daughter 2002 [FRESH & ALIVE]

http://freshandlive.blogspot.com/2021/12/david-bowiefor-my-daughter2002.html

this is gorgeous!

David Bowie played an exclusive concert for less than 100 people in London and filmed the show for his young daughter Alexandria.

He performed the special concert at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios in West London, which was recorded for Radio 2.

Of the 10 songs he played, the majority came from his album Heathen.

David Bowie 'For My Daughter' 2002

Maida Vale Studios (Studio 3

London, England

September 18th, 2002

Soundboard Recording

Track List:

01 - Sunday

02 - Look Back In Anger

03 - Cactus

04 - Survive

05 - 5:15 The Angels Have Gone

06 - Alabama Song

07 - Everyone Says 'Hi'

08 - Rebel Rebel

09 - The Bewlay Brothers

10 - Heathen (The Rays)

Dr. John LIVE in Washington DC 1978 (Floppy Boot Stomp)

http://floppybootstomp-ii.blogspot.com/2021/12/dr-john-live-in-washington-dc-1978.html

Fancy a funky Christmas? 

Overeaten? Over indulged somewhat? In need of a Doctor!?

Dr. John

The Cellar Door

Washington DC

1978-11-10

01. Swanee River Boogie

02. Dance The Night Away With You

03. Wild Honey

04. He's A Hero

05. City Lights

06. Street Side

07. Mama Roux

08. Snake Eyes

09. Right Place Wrong Time

10. Let's Make A Better World

11. Rain

12. Fire Of Love

13. Such A Night

14. Iko Iko 

Dr. John - Piano, Vocals

Hugh McCracken - Guitar

Buzzy Feiten - Guitar

Neil Larsen - Organ

Jim Calhoun- Bass

Steve Gadd - Drums

David Sanborn - Alto Saxophone

Kim Hutchinson - Alto Saxophone, Woodwinds

Joyce Kaye - Vocals

Tami Lynn - Vocals

A couple of rare TV tracks from The Doors by So Many Roads

The Doors live on Johnathan Winters' Show 1967

The Doors

1967-12-27

Jonathan Winters Show

CBS TV Studios

Los Angeles CA

TV Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. Introduction > Moonlight Drive

02. Introduction > Light My Fire

Musicians: 

JIM MORRISON- Vocals 

ROBBY KRIEGER- Guitar

RAY MANZAREK- Keyboards

JOHN DENSMORE- Drums 

Neil Young & Crazy Horse Saratoga Springs, NY, - 1996-08-25  (SoundAboard)

http://soundaboard.blogspot.com/2021/12/neil-young-crazy-horse-saratoga-springs.html

Pink Floyd LIVE in San Francisco CA 1970 (Voodoo Wagon)

http://voodoowagon.blogspot.com/2021/12/pink-floyd-live-in-san-francisco-ca-1970.html

Superb early Floy and my favourite period just post PATGOD and UMMAGUMMA great quality all things considered as to how old this is. Highly listenable and well worth collecting:

Pink Floyd 1970-04-29 FIllmore West San Francisco CA
FIllmore West
San Francisco CA
1970-04-29 

01. Grantchester Meadows

02. Astronomy Domine

03. Cymbaline

04. Atom Heart Mother

05. Embryo

06. Green is the Colour

07. Careful With That Axe, Eugene

08. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

09. A Saucerful Of Secrets

10. Interstellar Overdrive

Pink Floyd - The Screaming Abdabs Quebec City 1971 (Only Good Song)

http://onlygoodsong.blogspot.com/2021/12/pink-floyd-screaming-abdabs-quebec-city.html

Four track special and whilst slim it is worth having tho' maybe not up to the San Francisco set from Voodoo Wagon

OGS says:

Legendary rock band Pink Floyd has quietly released a treasure trove of 12 live albums on streaming services. The band hasn’t publicly commented on the recordings, all of which document its early ‘70s golden age period.

On Dec. 10, a commenter on a Pink Floyd fan site first posted about the recordings being dropped. All of the albums boast a copyright of Pink Floyd Music Ltd. It’s possible the British band is taking a similar strategy from artists like the Beach Boys, Beatles, and Bob Dylan - all of whom have issued collections as a form of copyright protection, adhering to a 2011 change in European law.

A rep for Sony told Rolling Stone back in 2013, “The copyright law in Europe was recently extended from 50 to 70 years for everything recorded in 1963 and beyond. With everything before that, there's a new 'Use It or Lose It' provision. It basically said, 'If you haven't used the recordings in the first 50 years, you aren't going to get any more.’”

To give an example of the provision: in 2012, Bob Dylan released a collection of limited-edition outtakes from 1962. If he had waited to release the collection, his recordings would have become public domain. Therefore, Dylan's label pressed roughly 100 copies and distributed them to stores in France, Germany, Sweden, and the U.K.

Pink Floyd likely released the EP 1965: Their First Recordings in 2015 because of the "Use It or Lose It" provision as well. The recordings later resurfaced in the band’s Early Years box set.

All of the concerts from Pink Floyd's new live albums occurred between 1970 and 1972. During that period, the band released: Atom Heart Mother (1970), Meddle (1971), and Obscured by Clouds (1972). Since the band began playing songs from Dark Side of the Moon prior to its release, one recording - a March 1972 Tokyo gig - features a near-complete performance of that LP in sequence.

01. Embryo

02. Fat Old Sun

03. One of These Days

04. Echoes

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A couple of sites posted some Nine Below Zero I guess by coincidence over at sister site both Rockasterias! but as I bought the single Three Times That's Enough when it came out and was going through a Dr Feelgood period ( I had seen them live at The Oxford Polytechnic with Wilco and they blew us all away! This is in tribute to those Britrockers who loved this sound! Two double albums here:

NINE BELOW ZERO [Plain & Fancy]

http://therockasteria.blogspot.com/2021/12/blog-post.html

Nine Below Zero Live at The Marquee 1980 (Rockasteria)

http://rockasteria.blogspot.com/2021/12/nine-below-zero-live-at-marquee-1980-uk.html

 

Rock on!

and a Happy New Year!!!

TURN IT UP!