The Specials - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-26-2009

I hadn't planned on posting this, because I prefer music from artists when they were in their prime, and this concert took place long after the Specials had their prime in the late 1970s and early 1980s. However, I made an exception here because the band reunited in 1993 and stayed together after that, but it wasn't until some months before this concert that Terry Hall, the band's original lead singer until 1981, rejoined the band. So this was an important reunion of sorts. Hall was the singer on the original versions of most or all of these songs.

Another reason I posted this is because the bootleg recording of this show sounded excellent in general, but had one big flaw that I could fix: the lead vocals were way too low in the mix. I used the UVR5 audio editing program to bring up the vocals. It sounds much better now.

Virtually all of the songs here were originally done in the 1979 to 1981 time frame. The band continued until about 1986 without Hall (as "Specials AKA"), and had some hits, including "Free Nelson Mandela," but I guess Hall didn't feel comfortable doing those.

The album is 59 minutes long.

01 talk (Specials)
02 Do the Dog (Specials)
03 Gangsters (Specials)
04 It's Up to You (Specials)
05 Rat Race (Specials)
06 Monkey Man (Specials)
07 talk (Specials)
08 Blank Expression (Specials)
09 Too Hot (Specials)
10 Doesn't Make It Alright (Specials)
11 talk (Specials)
12 Concrete Jungle (Specials)
13 Friday Night, Saturday Morning (Specials)
14 Man at C&A (Specials)
15 A Message to You, Rudy (Specials)
16 talk (Specials)
17 Do Nothing (Specials)
18 Hey Little Rich Girl (Specials)
19 Nite Klub (Specials)
20 Too Much, Too Young (Specials)
21 You're Wondering Now (Specials)
22 Ghost Town (Specials)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16604043/TSPECLS2009BBSssonsVlum4GlstnbrFstivlWrthyFrmPiltnBitin__6-26-2009_atse.zip.html

The photo of lead singer Terry Hall is from this exact concert. I couldn't find any good photos showing the entire band.