Pete Townshend's 'Deep End' / Superstar Concert Series CO 89-11::VOODOO WAGON

 PETE TOWNSHEND

We love Pete and the short lived Deep End band did some great gigs from Brixton Academy to Cannes and often in aid of charity but it is long out of print in this entire format and even the selected down highlights featured on 'Deep End Live!' is no longer available it would seem. 

Lots of it (from Brixton Academy ) is available via Youtube and knock yourselves out looking there. It IS worth it but if you want the near as complete session as broadcast in America you could do worse than this. ( I tend to kick off the adverts!) 

Pete Townshend - Deep End - BRIXTON ACADEMY 1985 - Voodoo Wagon

The Deep End Band:

Pete Townshend - guitar, vocals 

David Gilmour - guitar, vocals 

John Rabbit Bundrick - keyboards 

Chucho Merchan - bass 

Simon Philips - drums 

Peter Hope-Evans - harmonica 

Jody Linscott - percussion 

Gina Foster - backing vocals 

Coral Gordon - backing vocals 

Billy Nicholls - backing vocals 

Ian Ellis - backing vocals 

Chris Staines - backing vocals 

The Kickhorns: Simon Clarke; Tim Saunders; Peter Thoms; Roddy Lorimer; Dave Plews

Some line up! As notes Draftervoi over at base on the back of The Voodoo Wagon

On November 1 and 2, 1985, Pete Townshend's band Deep End played a charity concert at the Brixton Academy in London, England for the Double O charity.  Double 'O' Charity, Ltd. is a charity established by the rock group The Who in 1976. Pete Townshend took a more active role in the charity after 1983 when The Who had their first of several "official retirements" from touring. The charity supports programs for drug and alcohol rehab, domestic violence and sexual abuse, music education, emergency disaster relief and young people's prison reform.

As a working band, Deep End was only in existence for a few months. Besides the two Brixton shows, Deep End performed at the Tube show, and at the MIDEM trade fair in Cannes, France on 29th January 1986. That Cannes show was later broadcast on Rockpalast TV in Germany.

The two Brixton concerts were recorded by the King Biscuit Flower Hour and have a complex release history. (see the notes; the most detailed you will find about this now rare live set)

If anyone knows any good reason to take it down please let me know before contacting any Web Sherrifs!)  Noting this is NOT the FACE THE FACE set or concert from Cannes or NIGHT TRAIN TO BRIXTON the bootleg of that evening (or one of them) the third night being cancelled due to poor ticket sales [sic!]

Thanks!