Well another weblog of ROIOs has seemingly bitten the dust. The most excellent Mat Brewster over at Midnight Cafe has announced at least a sojourn away from his page for the foreseeable future. What with deaths and illness amongst the community and people just giving up from troll infections (Big O) to the music police making the mistake of taking down sites sharing files of live performances not available elsewhere (it actually does work and sells more music IMHO) this is a blow to the ever decreasing number of sites exploring bootlegs (so called) live recordings and Recordings Of Indeterminate Origin. He unerringly was worth following and despite a personal bias towards the Grateful Dead, Van Morisson and Bob Dylan came up with a surprising (at times) variety of sounds and links to recordings that I followed for years.

I can only hope that he is taking a sabbatical of some sort, that he continues in good health and will return to us at some point. Meanwhile I will take the opportunity to update my links to fellow travellers over on the right  . . . .there . . .  you see. . . . the list just there

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!)

Astral Weeks Live! - The Midnight Cafe

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 

Astral Weeks Live at The Hollywood Bowl 2009