The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series: Stiff Little Fingers Down Under

I'm always quite fascinated seeing how bands from the UK are received in other lands and I hadn't seen this concert footage before so a big thanks to the appropriately named Boot Leg for filming the show from earlier this year all the way down in Sydney, Australia.

It's great hearing the crowd singing along with every song and the place looked like it was bouncing.

Australia of course has it's own tradition of Punk Rock bands having seen the likes of The Saints and Radio Birdman gain some success in other places than their own. So I guess it shouldn't be too much of a surprise to see a band like SLF embraced so warmly.

A good strong set over almost an hour and half including three from the latest album No Going Back and all those classic singles like Suspect Device, Alternative Ulster, Gotta Getaway, At The Edge, Nobody's Hero, Tin Soldiers Just Fade Away and Silver Lining. Still sound great by the way. I'm going to see them next year at the Barrowlands on St Patrick's Day. Now that will be a real blast!

Stiff Little Fingers 

 Live @ Metro Theatre, Sydney Australia 

1 April 2016

Setlist
01 Wasted Life
02 Just Fade Away
03 Roots, Radicals, Rockers & Reggae
04 Guitar and Drum
05 Nobody's Hero
06 Barbed Wire Love
07 Listen
08 Doesn't Make It Alright
09 Silver Lining
10 Liar's Club
11 At the Edge
12 Strummerville
13 Fly the Flag
14 My Dark Places
15 When We Were Young
16 Tin Soldiers
17 Suspect Device
18 Johnny Was (filmer had some battery issues on this one)

19 Gotta Gettaway
20 Alternative Ulster

The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series: The Bangles

Seeing as we just posted about The Bangles why not have a concert from the band. They had reunited in 1999 and began writing and playing together once again. From 2000 Live at the House of Blues in Los Angeles and previewing a few new songs (marked * on setlist below) that would eventually end up on their fourth (and first for 15 years) studio album Doll Revolution in 2003.

1. Hazy Shade of Winter
2. Live
3. If She Knew what she wants
4. Between the Two*
5. The Rain Song *
6. Manic Monday
7. Here Right Now*
8. September Gurls
9. Going Down to Liverpool
10. I will take care of you*
11. Get the girl
12. In Your Room
13. Stealing Rosemary*
14. Angels Don't Fall in Love
15. Hero takes a Fall
16. Walk like an Egyptian
17. Pushin' too hard
18. Eternal Flame

(The Bangles 2000: Michael, Susanna Vicki and Debbi)

The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series: All About Eve

Today's Concert Series is another one of the shows that are part of the Rockpalast Series and features All About Eve live in 1991 spotlighting songs from their third studio album Touched By Jesus that had been released a month prior to this show.

 Recorded 5th September 1991 at Biskuithalle, Bonn for Rockpalast.

1 Strange Way*    
2 Share It With Me*    
3 Wild Hearted Woman    
4 Touched By Jesus*    
5 In The Clouds    
6 Hide Child*    
7 Road To Your Soul    
8 Farewell Mr. Sorrow*    
9 The Dreamer*    
10 Rhythm Of Life*    
11 Every Angel    
12 All Too Much

*All songs featured on the Touched By Jesus Album

The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series: Blondie (#2)

Two shows. Twenty Years apart. Blondie at the peak of their success and then reuniting to make their first album together for 17 years.

Perfect Pop!

Live At The Apollo Theatre Glasgow

1979

Live At The Town Hall, New York 

1999

The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series: The Psychedelic Furs

Today's Concert Series post is from Germany and Broadcast as part of the Rockpalast Series on German TV in 1981and features The Psychedelic Furs in action.

The 14 song set feature a couple of tunes from what was to be their newest album Forever Now as well as songs from their first two albums.

The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series: Girlschool

Dedicated to

Mick Thompson

Happy Birthday Fella!

A double dose of Girlschool today as part of The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series and a bit of a continuation with the Girls With Guitars theme begun yesterday.

Live From London

Camden Palace 1984

Setlist

1.C'Mon Let's Go
2.Nowhere To Run
3.You Got Me
4.Play Dirty
5.Love Is A Lie
6.Hit And Run
7.Out To Get You
8.Rock Me Shock Me
9.Running For Cover
10.Can't You See
11.Running Wild
12.I Like It Like That
13.Ready To Rock
14.Emergency 999

Live at Wacken

Germany 

5th August 2016

Setlist

Demolition

C'mon Let's Go

The Hunter

Hit and Run

I Spy

Come the Revolution

Take It Like a Band

Future Flash

Kick It Down

Watch Your Step

Race With The Devil

Emergency

The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series: Devo

Here's a little show from May 2012 featuring the mighty Devo.

Bonus

Devo - Live 1980.

The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series: XTC

The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series proudly presents the wonderful XTC live in both the United States and in Germany from the 1980s.

I saw them a few times at the tail end of the 1970s and they were always quite fascinating to see live. They were just as quirky on stage as they were in the studio and got better each time I saw them (always a good sign for a band that's going places).

So, the performances are from the USA, their first single release there had been Are You Receiving Me. They wouldn't have a charting single in the US until Generals and Majors (#104 - surprisingly this was their only chart single in America, though their albums fared a little better).

Second up is their performance for Rockpalast (one of the best TV shows for live music that here in the UK was often shown in the very early hours of the morning!).

 Gaston Hall at Georgetown University in Washington DC

24th January 1980

Intro
Beatown
Real By Reel
When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty
Life Begins At The Hop
The Rhythm
Meccanic Dancing
Roads Girdle the Globe
Ten Feet Tall
Helicopter
This is Pop?
Battery Brides
Instant Tunes
Crowded Room
Complicated Game
Making Plans for Nigel
Radios in Motion
Are You Receiving Me?
Outside World
Dance Band
Statue of Liberty

Rockpalast

10th February 1982

Respectable Street
Towers of London
Runaways
Jason and the Argonauts
Burning With Optimism's Flames
Snowman
Ball And Chain
Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)
No Thugs In Our House
Senses Working Overtime
Making Plans For Nigel
Living Through Another Cuba
Generals and Majors
Real By Reel
Life Begins At The Hop

Bonus

XTC Live In Australia 1979.

The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series: George Thorogood and The Destroyers

The Blues doesn't always come across well when recorded in the Studio, there are of course some exceptions to the rule but The Blues always sounds best played live.

A Double Dose of George Thorogood and The Destroyers will prove that point very clearly here on The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series.

 George Thorogood and The Destroyers

Capitol Theatre (Passaic, NJ)

1984

House Of Blue Lights
Instrumental Blues Jam
I'm Wanted
Who Do You Love?
Cocaine Blues
Bottom Of The Sea
Night Time
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
I'll Change My Style
Can't Stop Lovin'
The Sky is Crying
Madison Blues
Same Thing
Bad To The Bone
Move It On Over
Let The Good Times Roll
Boogie Chillen No. 2

 George Thorogood and The Destroyers 

30th Anniversary Tour 

Live In Europe

2004

Introduction    
Long Gone    
Who Do You Love    
Night Time    
I Drink Alone    
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer    
Don't Let The Bossman Get You Down    
The Sky Is Crying    
Sweet Little Lady    
Greedy Man    
Bad To The Bone    
Move It On Over    
The Fixer    
You Talk Too Much    
That's It I Quit    
Rockin' My Life Away

The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series: Spear of Destiny

Stumbled across this show from 2013 at Strummercamp by Spear of Destiny and thought I'd stick it up today...oh, and by the way...Happy Birthday Kirk Brandon.

Spear of Destiny

Strummercamp 26th May 2013

The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series: Go-Go's

Why not indluge in a double bill from New Wave Popsters the Go-Go's. Two shows twenty years apart featuring the classic line-up of the band that appeared on the debut album Beauty and the Beat.

First up Totally Go-Go's that was released on video way back in 1981 (does contain some interview segments). Followed by a performance at Central Park, New York in 2001.

Totally Go-Go's

1981

Live in Central Park

2001

The Go-Go's will be heading out for an 18 Date Farewell Tour. The band features four of the Classic Go-Go's Line Up: Jane Wiedlin, Gina Schock, Belinda Carlisle and Charlotte Caffey.

Kathy Valentine is absent from the Go-Go's for the Farewell Tour after departing the band in 2013 (having played her final show in 2012) and launching a lawsuit against her former group (which was settled out of court in 2014).

Dates for the  Go-Go's Farwell Tour Starting in August 2016 Can Be Found

HERE.

The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series: Elvis Costello

I think it's about time to unleash some Elvis Costello live footage on The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series. I honestly thought I had posted at least one concert of his as part of this series but it seems not.

Let us rectify that with not one but two Elvis Costello shows, the first from 1978 featuring The Attractions. This was filmed in Germany as part of the Rockpalast Series for German TV.

The second is pretty much an acoustic performance from Woodstock 99. It's interesting seeing the difference between the two and how much confidence Costello has mustered over the course of 21 years!

 Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Rockpalast
15th June 1978
 

Elvis Costello
Woodstock 99 East Stage
25th July 1999
 

Setlist:
Pads, Paws And Claws/Mystery Dance
Accidents Will Happen
(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
New Amsterdam / You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Veronica
Everyday I Write the Book
I'll Never Fall In Love Again
(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
Radio Sweetheart / Jackie Wilson Said
God's Comic
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
Alison
Pump It Up

The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series: Good Charlotte

Here's the opening night of the Good Charlotte Reunion Tour in the USA at The Theater of Living Arts in Philadelphia back in April 2016.

They had just come back to the States after playing some shows in the UK and Ireland with All Time Low.

It's not exactly a brilliant video and soundwise it could be better but it nicely captures of the atmosphere of a really rocking Good Charlotte show.

 

The TLA, Philadelphia

The Reunion Tour

18th April 2016

Good Charlotte 2016

The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series: The B-52's

A double hit from The B-52's on today's S4L Concert Series.

Capitol Theater, Passaic, New Jersey

11th July 1980

For some reason I can't see to post the embedded video but here's the Link:

 Dortmund 14th May 1983

(For Rockpalast)

The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series: Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers (2)

The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series has featured Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers before with a concert from 1978. This time though here's a show from 2005 as part of the Soundstage Presents Live In Concert Series.

The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series: Robyn Hitchcock

Robyn Hitchcock is probably best known for his time with The Soft Boys and for his work with Venus 3 and the many records he released with his band The Egyptians. The two shows below are just him on his own with a guitar.

One is a longer show from a couple of years ago in Austria where he was playing with Gallon Drunk and the second one is a shorter performance filmed during SXSW in 2013 at a Bike Shop of all places.

He's quirky, funny and most of all he writes some spectacular songs.

Enjoy

Live at Chelsea

Austria

24th March 2014 

 

Live at Mellow Johnny's Bike Shop

Austin Texas

13th March 2013

Tracklist

The Abyss
Be Still
Olé! Tarantula
Sometimes A Blonde
I Love You
End of Time

The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series: James Brown

Next in The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series is a real cracker. Filmed in 1968 at The Olympia in Paris it's in Black and White and features James Brown. Hope you enjoy this.

The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series: Johnny Cash

A bit of a Johnny Cash double header, first up the show from 1994 at The Manhattan Center and then because Glastonbury is coming up at the weekend I thought it would be cool to post his Glastonbury set from 1994. It's a bit of a similar set to The Manhattan Center but I thought seeing him in a setting with such a huge crowd was such a cool thing, and I think this was the first time he had ever played at the Festival as well. It was also good as well to see that his music though rooted in Country and America really transcended that and appealed to a much wider audience.

The Manhattan Center

9th June 1994

Johnny Cash

 Glastonbury 1994

Setlist

Folsom Prison Blues
Get Rhythm
Sunday Morning Coming Down
I Walk the Line
Ghost Riders in the Sky
Guess Things Happen That Way
Delia's Gone
The Beast in Me
Let the Train Blow the Whistle
Tennessee Stud
Like a Bird on a Wire
The Man Who Couldn't Cry
Redemption
Big River
Jackson (with June Carter)
If I were a Carpenter (with June Carter)
Orange Blossom Special
A Boy Named Sue

The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series: Ramones

A double hit of the Kings of Queens, New York City - Ramones. First show is from 1978 and was filmed at by the venue. It's all in black and white. The set includes some songs from the Road To Ruin album which had been released in September of that year.

The second 14 years later in Cologne, Germany with a blistering 32 song set. Included in the set were a few songs that would feature on their Mondo Bizarro album that would be released in September 1992.

Winterland, San Francisco

28th December 1978

Setlist

01. Rockaway Beach (Incomplete)

02. Teenage Lobotomy
03. Blitzkrieg Bop
04. I Don't Want You
05. Go Mental
06. Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
07. Rock 'N' Roll High School
08. I Wanna Be Sedated
09. I Just Wanna Have Something To Do
10. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
11. I'm Against It
12. Commando
13. Needles and Pins
14. Surfin' Bird
15. Cretin Hop
16. Listen To My Heart
17. California Sun
18. I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You
19. Pinhead
20. Do You Wanna Dance?
21. We're A Happy Family

Cologne, Germany

12th May 1992

Setlist

1. Durango 95
2. Teenage Lobotomy
3. Psycho Therapy
4. Blitzkrieg Bop
5. Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio?
6. I Believe In Miracles
7. Gimmie Gimmie Shock Treatment
8. Rock & Roll High School
9. I Wanna Be Sedated
10. Censorshit
11. I Wanna Live
12. Bonzo Goes To Bitburg
13. Tomorrow She Goes Away
14. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
15. Rockaway Beach
16. Pet Semetary
17. I Wanna Be Well
18. Glad To See You Go
19. Take It As It Comes
20. Somebody Put Something In My Drink
21. Commando
22. Wart Hog
23. Cretin Hop
24. Judy Is A Punk
25. Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World
26. Pinhead
27. Poison Heart
28. Chinese Rock
29. We're A Happy Family
30. Strength To Endure
31. Beat On The Brat
32. California Sun

The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series: Siouxsie and the Banshees

The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series today spotlights The Seven Year Itch concert by Siouxsie and the Banshees at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in 2002. It had been seven years since the Banshees had played together.

After their 1995 album The Rapture (their 11th Studio Album) Polydor Records sensationally dropped the band from the label. A tour followed which was to be the last (well at least for the time being). After 20 years Siouxsie and the Banshees were no more as they broke up in 1996. Siouxsie and Budgie had decided to continue work as The Creatures and would release a further two albums together.

Such a reunion you would have expected a setlist that featured all their chart hits from over the course of their successful career, think again though, because Siouxsie and the Banshees were going to to play the songs they wanted to play and not neccesarily what everyone wanted to hear. What you got was B-Sides and obscure album tracks and only a few A-Sides. There was no Hong Kong Garden, no Love In A Void, and no Dear Prudence. The only singles played were Happy House, Christine, Cities in Dust, Spellbound and Peek-a-Boo.  

Setlist

Pure
    Jigsaw Feeling
    Metal Postcard
    Red Light
    Happy House
    Christine
    Lullaby
    Lands End
    Cities in Dust
    I Could Be Again
    Icon
    Night Shift
    Voodoo Dolly
    Spellbound
    Blue Jay Way
    Monitor
    Peek-a-Boo