Tears for Fears - Capitol Theater, Port Chester, NY, 9-28-2015

Here's another concert from the recent release of soundboard boots from Port Chester, New York (as I write this is May 2026). At first, the vast majority of them were posted as a single sound file, without being broken into songs. But more and more are being broken into songs by other people. So I'm choosing to post albums out of those ones. I've already found about 30 of those, so expect to see a lot more of these get posted in the near future.

Tears for Fears mainly consists of Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal. Orzabal continued the band basically as a solo project for most of the 1990s, without Smith. But Smith rejoined the band in the early 2000s, and they've been together even since. At the time of this concert, they hadn't released a new Tears for Fears album since "Everybody Loves a Happy Ending" in 2004. So they mostly played older classics. They also included a drastically reworked version of Michael Jackson's "Billy Jean."

I didn't do much editing. But I did boost the volume of the cheering after many songs. One flaw with soundboards is they often capture the stage sounds well, but not much of the crowd. That was the case here, though only to a moderate degree. 

This album is an hour and 35 minutes long.

01 Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Tears for Fears)
02 Secret World (Tears for Fears)
03 Sowing the Seeds of Love (Tears for Fears)
04 talk (Tears for Fears)
05 Falling Down (Tears for Fears)
06 talk (Tears for Fears)
07 Pale Shelter (Tears for Fears)
08 Break It Down Again (Tears for Fears)
09 Everybody Loves a Happy Ending (Tears for Fears)
10 talk (Tears for Fears)
11 Change (Tears for Fears)
12 Mad World (Tears for Fears)
13 Memories Fade (Tears for Fears)
14 Closest Thing to Heaven (Tears for Fears)
15 Billie Jean (Tears for Fears)
16 talk (Tears for Fears)
17 Advice for the Young at Heart (Tears for Fears)
18 talk (Tears for Fears)
19 Badman's Song (Tears for Fears)
20 Head Over Heels (Tears for Fears)
21 talk (Tears for Fears)
22 Woman in Chains (Tears for Fears)
23 Shout (Tears for Fears)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/RnrZQJai

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/zz4aPZrhbkyFtM1/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from this exact concert.

Knebworth Festival, Knebworth House, Knebworth, Britain, 6-30-1990, Part 1: Tears for Fears

The Knebworth Festival has been happening most every year in Knebworth, England, since 1974. The 1990 festival was the first one since 1986, and was a special one, because it was the location for the Silver Clef Award winners concert, the only time that happened at Knebworth. This is a British music industry annual award. In 1990, the Silver Clef winner was Robert Plant.

The musical acts that played in the 1990 festival were bigger names than all festivals there before or since: Tears for Fears, Status Quo, Cliff Richard, Robert Plant with Jimmy Page, Phil Collins and Genesis, Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, Elton John, Paul McCartney, and Pink Floyd! Unlike other festivals such as Live Aid, there were a lot fewer musical acts, but each one got to play an average of a little less than an hour, for a total of eight hours of music.

The organizers behind this festival realized it was a big deal, because they later released audio and video versions of the festival. However, these were only about two CDs worth of highlights. The vast majority of the music has remained unreleased. The only exception is the Pink Floyd set, which was later released in full. Luckily for us, though, the entire concert was broadcast by the BBC at the time. So I'm posting the full concert, thanks to people who recorded the broadcast.

One snag about the festival is that the weather was not good. The outdoors crowd got rained on from time to time. Worse, from a listener's point of view is that it was very windy. In these recordings, there are occasional comments by the performers about how windy it was. That meant that sometimes the wind blew against the microphones, causing rustling noises. I tried fixing this, but I barely made a dent. So I've decided to post it, windy noises and all. Luckily, the wind was only noticeable during the banter between songs and especially quiet parts of songs. It also was pretty infrequent. Don't consider it a big problem, more like a minor annoyance here and there.

In 1990, Tears for Fears were arguably at the peak of their popularity. In 1989, they released the album "The Seeds of Love," which went to Number One in Britain. Tears for Fears was a duo made up of Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal. After the 1990 tour supporting the album, Smith would leave, and not rejoin for another ten years.

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 talk by Dave Dee (Tears for Fears)
02 Head Over Heels - Broken (Tears for Fears)
03 Change (Tears for Fears)
04 Pale Shelter (Tears for Fears)
05 talk (Tears for Fears)
06 Sowing the Seeds of Love (Tears for Fears)
07 All You Need Is Love (Tears for Fears)
08 talk (Tears for Fears)
09 Advice for the Young at Heart (Tears for Fears)
10 I've Got to Sing My Song (Tears for Fears with Oleta Adams)
11 talk (Tears for Fears)
12 Badman's Song (Tears for Fears)
13 talk (Tears for Fears)
14 Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Tears for Fears)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/7JGf9mjC

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/WNOHS7S5fKT8s72/file

The cover photo of Tears for Fears is from this exact concert.

Tears for Fears - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1982-1995

I'm rather surprised this is the first time I'm posting a Tears for Fears album, because I like them a lot. I guess part of it was that I didn't have anything worthy to post. But I've put together several BBC albums for them. Here's the first one. It's a collection of radio sessions.

The British duo Tears for Fears was formed in 1981. They didn't release their first album, "The Hurting," until 1983. But they made three appearances for the BBC in 1982 while promoting singles released in advance of their album.

The first two songs are from a BBC studio session that was later released on the super deluxe edition of "The Hurting." The third song, "Mad World," is from a live appearance on the BBC TV show "The Oxford Road Show." This is unreleased. I used the MVSEP audio editing program to remove the crowd noise from it. The next four songs, tracks four through seven, are from a different BBC studio session. These also were released on the super deluxe edition of "The Hurting."

The next three songs, tracks eight through ten, are from a 1985 BBC studio session meant to promote the band's 1985 album "Songs from the Big Chair." These were eventually released on the super deluxe edition of that album.

After 1985, it seems Tears for Fears didn't perform for the BBC for a long, long time. The last four tracks here, tracks 11 through 14, aren't from the BBC at all. But I wanted to include them because they're from a TV show instead of conventional concert, and I thought they were interesting song versions. These all come from the French show "Taratata" in 1995. The band was essentially just Roland Orzabal at this point. He was on the show to promote the new album "Raoul and the Kings of Spain." He did the title song from that album, as well as two older songs, and a cover. The cover of the classic soul hit "Stand by Me" is a duet with Julian Lennon, son of John Lennon. So that's particularly interesting.

All of the songs from the French TV show were performed before a live audience. However, I used the MVSEP audio editing program to remove all the crowd noise again, in order to get the songs to better fit with the studio tracks making up the bulk of this album.

This album is an hour and three minutes long.

01 Suffer the Children (Tears for Fears)
02 Ideas as Opiates (Tears for Fears)
03 Mad World (Tears for Fears)
04 Memories Fade (Tears for Fears)
05 The Prisoner (Tears for Fears)
06 Start of the Breakdown (Tears for Fears)
07 The Hurting (Tears for Fears)
08 Head Over Heels (Tears for Fears)
09 The Working Hour (Tears for Fears)
10 Broken (Tears for Fears)
11 Sowing the Seeds of Love (Tears for Fears)
12 Woman in Chains (Tears for Fears with Oleta Adams)
13 Raoul and the Kings of Spain (Tears for Fears)
14 Stand by Me (Tears for Fears & Julian Lennon)

NOTE: The link has been removed due to a copyright issue.

I didn't find any really good pictures from 1983. So the cover is a promo photo taken in 1984.