Van Morrison - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-21-1987

Here's another Van Morrison BBC album. This time, it's a full concert at the annual Glastonbury Festival.

I believe Morrison has performed at Glastonbury more than any other major music act. He's performed there eleven times so far: in 1982, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1997, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2016, and 2021! But weirdly, out of all of those times, it seems the only time his performance was broadcast on the BBC was this 1987 concert. That's especially strange because at least since 1997, the BBC has been broadcasting virtually the entire festival. He must have had some special exception against broadcasting his sets. I couldn't even find worthy audience bootlegs from his other Glastonbury concerts.

But at least we have this one. Serious Van Morrison fans have put this in the top ten of all of his concert recordings, according to a poll I saw. Personally, I'm not a big fan of his 1980s music, where he moved to more of a mellow New Age style with occasionally overt Christian themes. But at least a concert like this is more lively, mixing his best 80s songs with classics from earlier decades.

The bootleg recording of this concert is excellent. There was only one minor problem in that the applause after a few of the songs obviously got cut off early. So I patched in more applause in those cases, and made sure the transition to the next song sounded good, without any drastic drops in volume.

This album is an hour and 32 minutes long.

01 Moondance [Instrumental] (Van Morrison)
02 Celtic Swing [Instrumental] (Van Morrison)
03 Northern Muse [Solid Ground] (Van Morrison)
04 Vanlose Stairway (Van Morrison)
05 It's All in the Game (Van Morrison)
06 Help Me (Van Morrison)
07 Foreign Window (Van Morrison)
08 Dweller on the Threshold (Van Morrison)
09 Cleaning Windows (Van Morrison)
10 A Sense of Wonder (Van Morrison)
11 And the Healing Has Begun (Van Morrison)
12 Celtic Ray (Van Morrison)
13 One Irish Rover (Van Morrison)
14 In the Garden (Van Morrison)
15 Summertime in England (Van Morrison)
16 Full Force Gale (Van Morrison)
17 Bright Side of the Road (Van Morrison)
18 Rave On, John Donne - Did Ye Get Healed (Van Morrison)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/BRTGZbDC

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/sMFHuIGRbl9CvaH/file

The cover photo comes from a concert at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago, Illinois, on July 16, 1986.