Concerts for the People of Kampuchea, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 12-26-1979 to 12-29-1979: Day 2, Part 2: Matumbi, Ian Dury & the Blockheads

Note that I already posted a version of this album in 2023. However, I removed the Clash songs since I found enough to make a separate album out of those. I decided to delete the post of the remaining music of the Matumbi and Ian Dury and the Blockheads sets and repost it here to make it easier for you to find.

This is Day 2, Part 2 of the Concerts for the People of Kampuchea. It was actually a series of four concerts in a row, so it makes sense to post each of the concerts separately.

For the first night, the only musical act was Queen. But for this second night, there were three acts: Matumbi, the Clash, and Ian Dury & the Blockheads, in that order. I've numbered the songs so you can put all four parts together in the same folder if you want. That's why the first track here is already track 25.

I explained some in my Part 1 write-up how the only officially released album from this concerts was a double album that is now long out of print. Merely two of the songs here come from that. Luckily, a lot of music has come out unofficially on bootleg. Decades later, one bootleg emerged that was about as long as the official double album and had excellent sound quality. It seems these all were songs that were being considered for the album but didn't quite make the cut. That's where I got all but one of the songs but Ian Dury and the Blockheads and all the songs by Matumbi.

I had never heard of Matumbi before this. They were one of the most popular British reggae bands in the late 1970s. However, their 1979 song "Point of View [Squeeze a Little Lovin']" was their only Top Forty hit in Britain. They fizzled out, then broke up in the early 1980s.

There's a lot more music played than what is presented here. For instance, since the Clash performed an hour-long set, I'm sure the set by Ian Dury and the Blockheads was as long or longer, since they were the headliner act for the evening. If anyone has any of the other songs for this concert or the other ones with worthy sound quality, please let me know and I'll add them in.

This album is 50 minutes long.

24 Empire Road (Matumbi)
25 talk (Matumbi)
26 Come with Me (Matumbi)
27 After Tonight (Matumbi)
28 talk (Matumbi)
29 Point of View [Squeeze a Little Lovin'] (Matumbi)
30 talk (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
31 Clever Trevor (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
32 Blackmail Man (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
33 Blockheads (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
34 talk (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
35 My Ol' Man (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
36 Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
37 talk (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
38 Sweet Gene Vincent (Ian Dury & the Blockheads with Mick Jones)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/EA1Bb9oZ 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/oaN4VtJ9J04DADa/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. It's a screenshot of Ian Dury I took from a video that was taken from the movie.