Thursday, December 15, 2022

Kirsty MacColl - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-26-1992

In searching for more BBC material, I keep coming across tons of great music that I'd otherwise missed. One thing I've discovered is the music of Britain's yearly Glastonbury Festival. This festival has been taking place every summer since 1970. Since around the start of the 1990s, the BBC has been broadcasting most or all of it, usually after the festival is over. So expect many more Glastonbury Festival posts in the future. Here's one.

Kirsty MacColl was shy about performing in public, and didn't tour that much. There are only a few live recordings by her with excellent sound quality. So it's a lucky thing that the BBC recorded this Glastonbury Festival performance in 1992. It finally got officially released as part of a box set in 2023.

The song selection for this concert is about what one would expect. However, she did surprise with a cover of the Clash song "Train in Vain (Stand by Me)."

The main concert is 38 minutes long.

UPDATE: On November 26, 2023, I changed the album title and cover art. The music of the concert is still the same, but I've made this Volume 2 in a series of BBC albums. I also removed the last two songs, because they weren't part of the concert. They were from a BBC TV show, so they've been moved to a different BBC album in this series.

01 A New England (Kirsty MacColl)
02 Innocence (Kirsty MacColl)
03 talk (Kirsty MacColl)
04 You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby (Kirsty MacColl)
05 Fifteen Minutes (Kirsty MacColl)
06 Happy (Kirsty MacColl)
07 Don't Come the Cowboy with Me, Sonny Jim (Kirsty MacColl)
08 Tread Lightly (Kirsty MacColl)
09 Train in Vain [Stand by Me] (Kirsty MacColl)
10 Walking Down Madison (Kirsty MacColl)
11 Free World (Kirsty MacColl)
12 talk (Kirsty MacColl)
13 There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis (Kirsty MacColl)
14 Soho Square (Kirsty MacColl)
15 Angel (Kirsty MacColl)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15260616/KirstyMacC_1992_BBinConcertGlastonuryFestivl__6-26-1992_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is undated, but I'd guess it comes from the early 1990s. The lettering of her name comes from one of her albums, but with the color changed.

5 comments:

  1. Thank you for this! Still miss Kirsty...she made so much great music.

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  2. Hi, are you ok to please re-upload. Thanks!

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