Sunday, March 10, 2024

Squeeze - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Regal Theatre, Hitchins, Britain, 10-30-1982

The British band Squeeze performed for the BBC a lot in the early 1980s. I've already posted BBC concerts they did from 1980 and 1981, and here's one from 1982. In my opinion, each concert got better than the last, due to the band having even more classic songs to play.

This unreleased concert already sounded pretty good, but I tweaked it a little to make it sound even better. The main change I did was boost the lead vocals relative to the instruments, since they were rather low.

One song needed a big edit, the last one, "Tempted." The song faded out halfway through. I'm guessing that the BBC had allotted a certain amount of time for the band to perform, and when that time went over, they ended the broadcast. So I found a different version of the song performed in the same year and patched it in to finish it off. That's why that song has "[Edit]" in the title.

It seems to me that the band was trying their best to make use of a limited time slot, because they wasted very little time between songs. There are only a few comments here and there. And they often went right into the next song before giving the audience a decent amount of time to clap. It makes for a fast-paced show, though a short one.

The band broke up by the end of 1982, but they reunited in 1985. That's when the next album in this series will take place.

This album is 47 minutes long.

01 Cool for Cats (Squeeze)
02 talk by Dave Hepworth (Squeeze)
03 I've Returned (Squeeze)
04 Another Nail in My Heart (Squeeze)
05 talk (Squeeze)
06 Annie Get Your Gun (Squeeze)
07 Someone Else’s Heart (Squeeze)
08 Points of View (Squeeze)
09 Piccadilly (Squeeze)
10 talk (Squeeze)
11 Pulling Mussels [From the Shell] (Squeeze)
12 Labelled with Love (Squeeze)
13 Up the Junction (Squeeze)
14 I Can’t Hold On (Squeeze)
15 In Quintessence (Squeeze)
16 Is That Love (Squeeze)
17 Tempted [Edit] (Squeeze)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16373244/SQUZE1982BBSssonsVlum4InCncrtRgalThtreHtchnsBrtin__10-30-1982_atse.zip.html

The cover photo shows the band performing on the U.S. TV show "American Bandstand" in August 1982.

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