Def Leppard - BBC Radio 2 Live in the Park, Hylands Park, Chelmsford, Britain, 9-7-2025

Here's the last of the six albums that I'm posting from the 2025 BBC Radio 2 Live in the Park Festival. For the second and final night of the festival, the headliner was Def Leppard. As a result, their set was significantly longer than most of the other sets from the festival.

I already posted another Def Leppard concert, their VH-1 Storytellers performance in 1999, which you can find here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2024/09/def-leppard-vh-1-storytellers-vh-1.html

So I don't have a lot to say about them. Clearly, by 2025, their peak commercial era was far behind them. They haven't had a Gold studio album since 1999. But they've had the same line-up since 1992, and they show in this concert that they can still rock.

This music here is unreleased, and the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and 16 minutes. 

01 Rock, Rock [Till You Drop] (Def Leppard)
02 Rocket (Def Leppard)
03 talk (Def Leppard)
04 Let's Get Rocked (Def Leppard)
05 Foolin' (Def Leppard)
06 talk (Def Leppard)
07 Armageddon It (Def Leppard)
08 Animal (Def Leppard)
09 Love Bites (Def Leppard)
10 talk (Def Leppard)
11 Just like '73 (Def Leppard)
12 Bringin' on the Heartbreak (Def Leppard)
13 When Love and Hate Collide (Def Leppard)
14 talk (Def Leppard)
15 Rock of Ages (Def Leppard)
16 Photograph (Def Leppard)
17 Hysteria (Def Leppard)
18 Pour Some Sugar on Me (Def Leppard)
19 talk (Def Leppard) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/zcJwPbMs

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/hr5uZI77jBuo08b/file

Frankly, by 2025, the band sounds a lot better than they look. So I figured this was a good occasion to show how large the crowd at the festival was. That's the band's lead singer Joe Elliott looking out over the crowd.

Suede - BBC Radio 2 Live in the Park, Hylands Park, Chelmsford, Britain, 9-7-2025

Here's another album from the 2025 BBC Radio 2 Live in the Park Festival. So far, I've posted four albums from September 6, 2025, the first day of the festival. I have two albums from the next day, and here's the first one, Suede.

Suede was one of the first and most important of the Britpop bands in the 1990s. They were considered one of the "big four" in that genre, along with Oasis, Blur, and Pulp. But for some reason, I've paid much attention to them until now. That's probably because I'm American, and they had less success in the U.S. than those other Britpop bands. For instance, they had three albums hit Number One in Britain, but none of their albums even made the Top 100 in the U.S.

Here's their Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more about them:

Suede (band) - Wikipedia 

As with all the albums from this festival, the music is unreleased and the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 35 minutes long. 

01 Trash (Suede)
02 Dancing with the Europeans (Suede)
03 Animal Nitrate (Suede)
04 Trance State (Suede)
05 She Still Leads Me On (Suede)
06 talk (Suede)
07 Saturday Night (Suede)
08 Metal Mickey (Suede)
09 Beautiful Ones (Suede)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Fjxg7z4A

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Yqp3Dpr4X2Ciy3i/file

The cover photo of the band's lead singer Brett Anderson is from this exact concert. 

Bryan Adams - BBC Radio 2 Live in the Park, Hylands Park, Chelmsford, Britain, 9-6-2025

Here's another album from the 2025 BBC Radio 2 Live in the Park Festival that took place earlier this month. (I'm writing this in September 2025.) This is the set by Canadian rocker Bryan Adams.

The festival mainly took place on September 6th and 7th, 2026. I've previously posted three sets from the 6th. Adams was the headliner for that day, so his set was twice as long as the others I've posted. After this, I'll post the sets from the 7th.

Adams has been extremely successful for a very long time. He's sold close to 100 million records worldwide. He had many hit albums from the early 1980s until the late 2000s, though his sales have slowed a lot since then. His most recent album, "Roll with the Punches," was released just a week prior to this festival. He played three songs from it: "Roll with the Punches," "Make Up Your Mind," and "Never Ever Let You Go."

Other than those, he generally focused on his earlier hits. He kept banter between songs to a minimum, squeezing in a lot of songs for the time he was allotted. He's 65 years old at the time of this concert, but he still sounds energetic and good.

This album is an hour and 16 minutes.

01 Kick Ass (Bryan Adams)
02 Run to You (Bryan Adams)
03 Somebody (Bryan Adams)
04 Roll with the Punches (Bryan Adams)
05 talk (Bryan Adams)
06 18 til I Die (Bryan Adams)
07 talk (Bryan Adams)
08 Shine a Light (Bryan Adams)
09 Heaven (Bryan Adams)
10 talk (Bryan Adams)
11 Make Up Your Mind (Bryan Adams)
12 talk (Bryan Adams)
13 You Belong to Me [False Start] (Bryan Adams)
14 You Belong to Me - Blue Suede Shoes (Bryan Adams)
15 talk (Bryan Adams)
16 When You're Gone (Bryan Adams with Melanie C)
17 The Only Thing that Looks Good on Me Is You (Bryan Adams)
18 Never Ever Let You Go (Bryan Adams)
19 [Everything I Do] I Do It for You (Bryan Adams)
20 Back to You (Bryan Adams)
21 So Happy It Hurts (Bryan Adams)
22 Cuts like a Knife (Bryan Adams)
23 Summer of '69 (Bryan Adams)
24 talk (Bryan Adams)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/GBa6n6Pj

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/0yLdirePNuDCVvr/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Stereophonics - BBC Radio 2 Live in the Park, Hylands Park, Chelmsford, Britain, 9-6-2025

Here's another album from the 2025 BBC Radio 2 Live in the Park Festival. This is the set by the British band Stereophonics.

I have to say Stereophonics haven't really been on my radar screen until now. Maybe that's because I'm an American, and they are very big in Britain but not the U.S. Nine of their albums have hit Number One in Britain, and they've had lots of hit singles there too, but not even a single hit single in the U.S. 

Listening to this album, I thought it was okay, but I wouldn't be posting this had it not been for them doing well in the poll I posted about this festival. Maybe I haven't listened to their music enough yet.

Note this album is pretty short. I think it's the shortest out of all the albums I'm posting from this festival. But it seems to be complete.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. This album is 33 minutes long. 

01 Vegas Two Times (Stereophonics)
02 I Wanna Get Lost with You (Stereophonics)
03 talk (Stereophonics)
04 Have a Nice Day (Stereophonics)
05 talk (Stereophonics)
06 There's Always Gonna Be Something (Stereophonics)
07 Maybe Tomorrow (Stereophonics)
08 Dakota (Stereophonics)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ADaxDCSy

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/TwRR6POO61O0Gq5/file

The cover photo the band's lead singer Kelly Jones is from this exact concert. 

Belinda Carlisle - BBC Radio 2 Live in the Park, Hylands Park, Chelmsford, Britain, 9-6-2025

Here's more from the poll results for the BBC Radio 2 Live in the Park Festival from earlier this month (writing this in September 2025). This is a set by Belinda Carlisle, former lead singer of the Go-Go's.

While I think Carlisle is a good singer and I like a lot of her songs, I'm bummed she didn't sing even one song by the Go-Go's. Not even "We Got the Beat?" Really? She had a lot of success with a solo career in the late 1980s and 1990s, and most of the songs come from that. Curiously, she released a new album just a couple of weeks prior to this concert, "Once Upon a Time in California," and she didn't play a single song from it. It's a covers albums of famous songs, so I think those songs would have gone over reasonably well with the crowd. Perhaps she felt limited by the time, since this concert is pretty short, due to there being lots of musical acts getting squeezed into the festival.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 43 minutes long. 

01 [We Want] The Same Thing (Belinda Carlisle)
02 talk (Belinda Carlisle)
03 Summer Rain (Belinda Carlisle)
04 talk (Belinda Carlisle)
05 Big, Big Love (Belinda Carlisle)
06 talk (Belinda Carlisle)
07 I Get Weak (Belinda Carlisle)
08 Circles in the Sand (Belinda Carlisle)
09 Big Scary Animal (Belinda Carlisle)
10 Live Your Life Be Free (Belinda Carlisle)
11 Leave a Light On (Belinda Carlisle)
12 Heaven Is a Place on Earth (Belinda Carlisle)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/uVyb3KxB

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/R6pfRWgubak9to3/file 

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Kid Creole & the Coconuts - BBC Radio 2 Live in the Park, Hylands Park, Chelmsford, Britain, 9-6-2025

I promised that I would post the musical acts that got the most votes in a poll for the BBC Radio in the Park Festival, which was held on September 6th and 7th, 2025. Here's the first result. I'm starting by posting the set from my favorite musical act from the festival, Kid Creole and the Coconuts.

The band's peak years were in the 1980s, which was a long time ago. But listening to this, you'd never know that so many years have passed. It was a solid show, but a short one. That's because most musical acts in the festival had sets under 40 minutes, except for the big headliners.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 35 minutes long. 

01 Caroline Was a Drop-Out (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
02 I'm a Wonderful Thing, Baby (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
03 Stool Pigeon (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
04 Trombone - Stool Pigeon (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
05 talk (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)
06 Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy (Kid Creole & the Coconuts)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/DNnWs6iM

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Of8DKuXj5SlLcTo/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. It show's the band's lead singer August Darnell with the three women making up the Coconuts.