Heatwave Festival, Mosport Park, Bowmanville, Canada, 8-23-1980, Part 2: Rockpile

The second set I have from the 1980 Heatwave Festival was performed by Rockpile, a rocking foursome led by both Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds.

Rockpile played many concerts from 1977 to 1981, but Lowe and Edmunds were on different record labels, so they were only able to release one studio album, "Seconds of Pleasure," in 1980. That album actually came out two months after this concert, so none of the songs here are from it. But there are some songs from the most recent solo albums by Edmunds ("Repeat When Necessary") and Lowe ("Labour of Lust").

This album perhaps is a bit redundant, because two official Rockpile live albums were eventually released that are from 1980 concerts, "Live at Montreux 1980" and "Live at Rockpalast." But in my opinion, it's hard to have too much live Rockpile, at least when it has this level of sound quality, since this unreleased concert is from a soundboard source. 

There was a problem with one song, "Sweet Little Lisa." The sound balance was really off for most of the song, with the overall volume fluctuating and different instruments out of whack. But I was able to fix that in Audacity, so it should sound pretty normal now. This kind of thing sometimes happens with the first songs of concerts, while the sound mix was being adjusted on the fly.

This album is 55 minutes long.

Note that the song numbering continues from where the last album in the festival left off, in case one wants to hear all the songs from it in a row. Also, I have zeroes at the start of the track numbers because there were over a 100 songs in the festival.

023 talk (Rockpile)
024 Sweet Little Lisa [Edit] (Rockpile)
025 So It Goes (Rockpile)
026 I Knew the Bride [When She Used to Rock and Roll] (Rockpile)
027 talk (Rockpile)
028 Queen of Hearts (Rockpile)
029 Switchboard Susan (Rockpile)
030 Trouble Boys (Rockpile)
031 Girls Talk (Rockpile)
032 Three Time Loser (Rockpile)
033 talk (Rockpile)
034 You Ain't Nothing but Fine (Rockpile)
035 Crawling from the Wreckage (Rockpile)
036 talk (Rockpile)
037 Let It Rock (Rockpile)
038 Singing the Blues (Rockpile)
039 I Hear You Knocking (Rockpile)
040 They Called It Rock (Rockpile)
041 Ju Ju Man (Rockpile)
042 Down Down Down (Rockpile)
043 Let's Talk about Us (Rockpile)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16272681/VAHtwveFstivlMsprtPrkBwmnvlleCnda__8-23-1980_02Rckple.zip.html

The cover photo comes from this exact concert. That's Edmunds on the left and Lowe on the right.