Friday, September 12, 2025

Blondie - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-25-1999

I was all set to post a "PBS Soundstage" concert by Blondie today. But when I looked in my Blondie music folder, I noticed that I'd never posted this BBC concert, even though I was sure I had. So I'm posting this first. The Soundstage one will come soon. 

As an aside, note that I previously posted another Blondie BBC concert, from 1979. Since this is the second one I've found, today I renamed that other one "Volume 1." Here's a link to the updated version of that one if you want to redownload it:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/07/blondie-bbc-in-concert-apollo-theatre.html

Anyway, this concert is from 1999. The band Blondie was together from 1974 to 1982. They broke up for nearly two decades, but finally reunited in 1997, and put out a new studio album in 1999, called "No Exit." Usually when it comes to reunions like this, the new music doesn't sell very well. But Blondie found great success with their single "Maria," which reached Number One in Britain in 1999. So that made this a good time for another BBC concert. 

Naturally, they performed the song "Maria" here. But they only performed two other songs from their new album, "Screaming Skin" and "Nothing Is Real but the Girl." Otherwise, the album consists of their best known songs from the 1970s and 80s. One exception is "Shayla," a deep cut from their 1979 album "Eat to the Beat."

The sound quality is excellent. The music here remains unreleased.

This album is an hour and eight minutes long. 

01 Call Me (Blondie)
02 Hanging on the Telephone (Blondie)
03 Screaming Skin (Blondie)
04 Atomic (Blondie)
05 Shayla (Blondie)
06 Union City Blue (Blondie)
07 Denis (Blondie)
08 The Tide Is High (Blondie)
09 Sunday Girl (Blondie)
10 Maria (Blondie)
11 One Way or Another (Blondie)
12 talk (Blondie)
13 Nothing Is Real but the Girl (Blondie)
14 Rapture (Blondie)
15 Heart of Glass (Blondie)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/t5nGFyef

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/GkOTF0gtR3szYep/file

The cover photo of lead singer Deborah Harry is from this exact concert.

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