Monday, January 12, 2026

Chris Rea - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: In Concert, Exhibition and Conference Centre, Aberdeen, Britain, 2-15-1993

The mini-flood of Chris Rea BBC albums continues. Here's one from 1993. Like all previous ones in this series so far, it's a BBC concert. But all the previous ones had been edited down to an hour or less. This one appears to be a full concert.

At the time of this concert, Rea's popularity was still peaking. In 1991, he released the album "Auberge," which reached Number One in the British album chart. Then in late 1992, he released the album "God's Great Banana Skin," which reached Number Four in Britain. The songs "Auberge" and "Nothing to Fear" were his best selling singles from those albums, and both of them were performed in this concert.

Unfortunately, he still refused to tour the U.S., so he remained little known there. He later said that he regretted that.

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

This album is an hour and 31 minutes long. 

01 Auberge (Chris Rea)
02 Daytona (Chris Rea)
03 Josephine (Chris Rea)
04 You Must Be Evil (Chris Rea)
05 Soft Top, Hard Shoulder (Chris Rea)
06 Nothing to Fear (Chris Rea)
07 Gone Fishing (Chris Rea)
08 The Road to Hell I and II (Chris Rea)
09 Looking for a Rainbow (Chris Rea)
10 On the Beach (Chris Rea)
11 God's Great Banana Skin (Chris Rea)
12 Working on It (Chris Rea)
13 Let's Dance (Chris Rea)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/jCNbSkho

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/1x4tTs7ZCrIZtbt/file

The cover photo isn't from this exact concert, but at least it's pretty close, from one less than a week later. It comes from a concert in Birmingham, on January 21, 1993.

2 comments:

  1. Thank you. So glad to have his live music from this time period!

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  2. So pleased with all the Chris Rea. Thanks again

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