Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Jamaica World Music Festival, Montego Bay, Jamaica, 11-26-1982, Part 1: The English Beat

This is the first act of the second day of the three-day long 1982 Jamaica World Music Festival. This time, it's the English Beat.

The English Beat only stayed together long enough for three studio albums. They had just released the third one, "Special Beat Service," a couple of months prior to this concert. So, naturally, they played a lot of songs from that.

I believe this is the shortest set of the entire festival. It's possible there are other songs that didn't get recorded. Or it could just be a short and sweet set, I don't know.

I already posted a 1982 concert from the band, a BBC one. It's pretty similar, so I suppose this isn't that necessary. But of course I'm including it since it's part of the festival.

This album is 41 minutes long.

Note that I've restarted the song numbering from one, and the part number of the album goes back to one, because this is the first set of the second day. I'll do the same with the start of the third day.

01 talk (English Beat)
02 Hands Off... She's Mine (English Beat)
03 Big Shot (English Beat)
04 talk (English Beat)
05 Doors of Your Heart (English Beat)
06 talk (English Beat)
07 Save It for Later (English Beat)
08 talk (English Beat)
09 Too Nice to Talk To (English Beat)
10 talk (English Beat)
11 I Confess (English Beat)
12 talk (English Beat)
13 Spar wid Me (English Beat)
14 Ranking Full Stop (English Beat)
15 Mirror in the Bathroom (English Beat)
16 talk (English Beat)
17 Jackpot (English Beat)
18 talk (English Beat)
19 The Tears of a Clown (English Beat)
20 talk (English Beat)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16410996/VA-JmicaWrldMsicFstvlMntgoByJmica__11-26-1982Prt01EnglshBet_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is from this exact concert. However, there's a twist, because it's actually two photos put together. On the left, with guitar, is Dave Wakeling, and the right is Ranking Roger. I started with a picture that had both of them standing in these exact positions, but Wakeling didn't look good. I happened to have another photo from the concert of just him, probably taken just moments before or after the other photo, judging from the lighting and such. So I took out Wakeling from the original and replaced him with the one from the other photo.

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