The Kinks - Royal Albert Hall, London, Britain, 7-11-1993

I've posted a lot of live concerts from the Kinks, but none from the 1990s until now. (The Kinks put out their last studio album in 1993, and kept touring until 1993.) This is a great sounding concert that only became available this year (2025).

Most of this was officially released earlier in 2025 as part of an archival release called "The Journey, Part 3." A double disc album, the first concert is a greatest hits of sorts from the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the second disc is this concert. If all of the concert had been released there, I wouldn't have posted this. But it turns out only about two-thirds of the concert was included. Furthermore, the song order was moved around. So this is an attempt to present the full concert, in the correct song order.

I ran into a problem though, because this concert has never been bootlegged, meaning I couldn't find the rest of it. My solution was to use another soundboard bootleg from the same year for five of the missing songs (from Saratoga Springs, New York). Then I found two more from a soundboard bootleg from 1994 (from Stuttgart, Germany). 

Between those two sources, I was able to find all of the missing songs except for one, "Waterloo Sunset." This is frustrating, because that's one of the greatest songs of all time, in my opinion. But there are only a couple of soundboard bootlegs from the 1993 or 1994 time frame, and none of them have that song. I could have used an audience bootleg from those years for that one song, but it would have meant a big drop in sound quality. If anyone knows of a live version of that song from that era with worthy sound quality, please let me know.

In order to make this concert flow in a pleasing way, I did some editing of the transitions between songs. For instance, I might have one song ending with a wildly cheering crowd and then the next song starting with no crowd noise. In a case like that, I would patch in more crowd noise from elsewhere in the concert to have the cheering die out before the quiet at the start of the next song began. I fixed a lot of those transitions, even in the songs actually from the Royal Albert Hall source when the song order of those was changed.  

At the time, the Kinks had just released their last studio album, "Phobia." Five of the songs here are from that. Otherwise, the concert consisted of the band's biggest hits, plus a cover of "Twist and Shout" at the end. I would argue this now is the best sounding, best performed concert recording of the band from the 1990s, even though it is stitched together from three different sources.

This album is one hour and 25 minutes long.

01 Intro [Instrumental] (Kinks)
02 Till the End of the Day (Kinks)
03 Where Have All the Good Times Gone (Kinks)
04 Low Budget (Kinks)
05 talk (Kinks)
06 Phobia (Kinks)
07 talk (Kinks)
08 Only a Dream (Kinks)
09 talk (Kinks)
10 Scattered (Kinks)
11 Apeman (Kinks)
12 Celluloid Heroes (Kinks)
13 talk (Kinks)
14 Drift Away (Kinks)
15 I'm Not like Everybody Else (Kinks)
16 Dedicated Follower of Fashion (Kinks)
17 The Informer (Kinks)
18 Death of a Clown (Kinks)
19 Dead End Street (Kinks)
20 Come Dancing (Kinks)
21 Welcome to Sleazy Town (Kinks)
22 Sunny Afternoon (Kinks)
23 All Day and All of the Night (Kinks)
24 Lola (Kinks)
25 Days (Kinks)
26 talk (Kinks)
27 You Really Got Me (Kinks)
28 talk (Kinks)
29 Twist and Shout (Kinks)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/vyqQVkML

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/SRLvvzXPkAgnjO0/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.