The Smiths - Live at the Oxford Apollo 18-03-85

A live set from The Smiths recorded at the Apollo Theatre, Oxford in 1985. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 1.

1. William, It Was Really Nothing
2. Nowhere Fast
3. What She Said
4. Hand In Glove
5. How Soon Is Now?
6. Stretch Out and Wait
7. That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
8. Shakespeare's Sister
9. The Headmaster Ritual
10. Still Ill
11. Meat Is Murder
12. Miserable Lie
13. Barbarism Begins At Home
14. You've Got Everything Now

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Mew - Radio Sessions

Danish alternative rock band Mew performing mostly acoustic sessions for various radio stations.

AOL Interface Session 2005
1. The Zookeeper's Boy
2. Eight Flew Over, One Was Destroyed
3. Why Are You Looking Grave?
4. Comforting Sounds
Gideon Coe 6Music Session 2005
1. The Zookeeper's Boy
2. White Lips Kissed
Kerrang! Session 27-11-05 (incomplete: 3 tracks missing)
1. The Zookeeper's Boy
2. White Lips Kissed
Daytrotter Session 24-08-09
1. New Terrain/The Zookeeper's Boy
2. Special

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Minutemen - Live at Flynn's Ocean 71 02-08-84

San Pedro's Minutemen performing live at Flynn's Ocean 71 in Miami Beach, Florida in 1984.

1. It's Expected I'm Gone 2. Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing 3. Toadies 4. God Bows To Math 5. The Glory Of Man 6. Corona 7. Anxious Mo-Fo 8. Please Don't Be Gentle With Me 9. Retreat 10. Beacon Sighted Through Fog 11. The Only Minority 12. Mutiny In Jonestown 13. Life As A Rehearsal 14. '99 15. Black Sheep 16. Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs 17. The Anchor 18. Ack Ack Ack 19. The Big Foist 20. One Reporter's Opinion

21. Don't Look Now 22. Self-Referenced 23. Nothing Indeed 24. Two Beads At The End 25. No Exchange 26. The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts 27. This Ain't No Picnic 28. Green River 29. Themselves 30. Little Man With A Gun In His Hand 31. Mr. Robot's Holy Orders 32. Cut 33. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love 34. The Red And The Black 35. Jesus And Tequila 36. I Felt Like A Gringo 37. Paranoid Chant 38. Joe McCarthy's Ghost 39. The Product 40. Plight 41. Definitions

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Split Enz - Live at Pinkpop Festival 23-11-80

Split Enz live at the Pinkpop Festival in the Netherlands in 1980.

1. I See Red
2. I Wouldn't Dream Of It
3. Missing Person
4. My Mistake
5. Nobody Takes Me Seriously
6. Poor Boy
7. Shark Attack
8. What's The Matter With You
9. You Can Lead A Horse To Water
10. I Got You
11. I Hope I Never

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PJ Harvey - Radcliffe & Maconie Session 08-02-11

PJ Harvey in session for Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie on their BBC Radio 2 show. Featuring tracks from her new album Let England Shake.

1. The Words That Maketh Murder
2. Bitter Branches
3. The Last Living Rose
4. Written on the Forehead

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See also:
PJ Harvey - Live at the Forum, London 23-05-93
PJ Harvey - KCRW Session 23-09-93
PJ Harvey - Live at the Warfield Theater, SF 14-04-11

Tortoise - Radio Sessions

Chicago post-rock band Tortoise performing five radio sessions. The Maida Vale session was recorded as an improvisational set with Colin Newman from Wire and broadcast on BBC Radio 3's Late Junction show.

Peel Session 31-08-96
1. Wait
2. Vaus
3. The Taut And Tame
4. Tin Cans And Twine
KCRW 'Morning Becomes Eclectic' Session 18-11-05
1. Magnet Pulls Through/Eden 2
2. Five Too Many
3. Crest
4. Unknown/Dot/Eyes
5. Yinxianghechengqi
KCRW 'Morning Becomes Eclectic' Session 08-07-09
1. High Class Slim Came Floatin' In
2. Prepare Your Coffin
3. The Suspension Bridge At Iguazu Falls
4. Djed
5. Minors
WXPN Session 26-08-09
1. Prepare Your Coffin
2. Minors
3. Charteroak Foundation
Live at Maida Vale 26-08-09 (with Colin Newman)
1. Untitled 1
2. Untitled 2
3. Untitled 3
4. Untitled 4
5. Untitled 5

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Holy Fuck - Live at Pygmalion Festival 24-09-10

Holy Fuck's headline performance at the Pygmalion Festival in Illinois last September.

1. 1MD
2. Super Inuit
3. Frenchy's
4. Tone Bank Jungle
5. Latin America
6. Stay Lit
7. Lovely Allen
8. Red Lights
9. P.I.G.S.
10. Stilettos

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See also:
Holy Fuck - Marc Riley Session 17-11-10
Holy Fuck - Radio Sessions
Holy Fuck - Lauren Laverne Session 13-10-16

Micachu and the Shapes - Radio Sessions

Experimental band Micachu and the Shapes in session on BBC 6Music and Dublab radio in 2009.

Marc Riley Session 12-01-09
1. Golden Phone
2. Curly Teeth
3. Eat Your Heart
Dublab 'Sprout Session' 21-07-09
1. Lips
2. Floor
3. Curly Teeth

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See also:
Micachu and the Shapes - Marc Riley Session 17-10-12

Nina Nastasia - Radio Sessions

New York City-based singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia in session for various radio stations. Includes her 2002 set at Peel Acres.

John Peel Session 04-07-02
1. Regrets
2. Treehouse Song
3. This Is What It Is
4. Deck In Vegas
5. All Your Life
6. Too Much In Between
7. Ugly Face
Rob Da Bank Session 02-10-06
1. Settling the Song
2. Late Night
3. Counting Up Your Bones
4. Odd Said The Doe
Daytrotter Session 10-12-06
1. Jim's Room
2. Why Don't You Stay Home
3. Underground
4. Lee
BCB Session 20-12-06
1. Treehouse Song
2. One Old Woman
3. Jim's Room
4. Stormy Weather

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Pop Will Eat Itself - Hit The North Session 1992

Stourbridge's PWEI in session for Mark Radcliffe on BBC Radio 5's Hit the North show in 1992.

1. Bulletproof!
2. Get The Girl! Kill The Baddies!
3. I've Always Been A Coward, Baby
4. Harry Dean Stanton
5. I Was a Teenage Grandad

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See also:
Pop Will Eat Itself - Radio Sessions

Gang Gang Dance - Live in Brooklyn, NY. 29-04-08

Experimental pop band Gang Gang Dance perform a live set to promote the Saint Dymphna album at Southpaw in Brooklyn, NY. 2008.

Total running time: 35.05

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John Grant - Radio Sessions

Former frontman of The Czars John Grant performing tracks from his solo album Queen of Denmark for various radio stations.

Strongroom Session 08-10-10
1. Queen of Denmark
2. Where Dreams Go To Die
3. Sigourney Weaver
4. It's Easier
KPCC session 16-12-10
1. Sigourney Weaver
2. It's Easier
KEXP session 22-12-10
1. Fireflies
2. It's Easier
3. Sigourney Weaver
4. Where Dreams Go To Die

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See also:
John Grant - Radcliffe & Maconie Session 21-03-11
John Grant with Midlake - Daytrotter Session 28-11-11
John Grant - Lauren Laverne Session 13-03-13
John Grant & The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - Live at Salford MediaCityUK 03-10-14

The Sugarcubes - Live at Manchester University 14-05-88

The Sugarcubes live at Manchester University Students' Union in 1988. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 1.

1. Motorcrash
2. Tidal Wave
3. Planet
4. Deus
5. Traitor
6. Water
7. Sick For Toys
8. Birthday
9. Delicious Demon

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See also:
The Sugarcubes - Peel Session
Björk - Maida Vale Session 2004
Björk - Live at United Palace, NY 05-05-07
Björk - Live at Manchester Academy 14-09-93
Björk - Live at Bunkamura Orchard Hall, Tokyo 05-12-01

Polysics - KEXP Session 03-01-06

Japanese new wave band Polysics in session for KEXP back in 2006.

1. Kaja Kaja Goo
2. My Sharona (The Knack cover)
3. Baby BIAS
4. I My Me Mine
5. Coelakanth is Android
6. Black Out Fall Out

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Tame Impala - KCRW Session 15-12-10

Another session from Tame Impala, this time on the 'Morning Becomes Eclectic' show for KCRW.

1. It's Not Meant To Be
2. Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind?/Alter Ego
3. Solitude Is Bliss
4. Desire Be Desire Go
5. The Bold Arrow Of Time/Island Walking (edit)

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See also:
Tame Impala - Marc Riley acoustic session 31-08-10
Tame Impala - KEXP Session 22-04-11
Tame Impala - Live at the Wireless 12-12-12

Menomena - Radio Sessions

Portland, Oregon's Menomena in session for various radio stations.

Daytrotter Session 20-08-07
1. Weird
2. Rotten Hell
3. The Pelican
XFM Session 13-03-08
1. Rotten Hell
2. Wet and Rusting
3. Muscle and Flo
KEXP Session 28-07-10
1. Five Little Rooms
2. Killemall
3. Queen Black Acid
4. Taos
Marc Riley Session 01-12-10
1. Killemall
2. Queen Black Acid
3. Tithe
4. Dirty Cartoons
WXPN World Cafe Session 09-12-10
1. Dirty Cartoons
2. Queen Black Acid
3. Killemall

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William D. Drake - Resonance FM Session 14-12-10

Ex-Cardiacs keyboard maestro William D. Drake in session for Resonance FM on the gLASSsHRiMP show earlier this month.

1. The Moth Surrendered to the Flame
2. A Husk

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See also:
William D. Drake - Marc Riley Session 18-06-15
William D. Drake - Marc Riley Session 29-10-12
William D. Drake - Marc Riley Session 11-07-11
Cardiacs - Radio Sessions
The Sea Nymphs - Peel Session
Cardiacs - Radio Leeds Session 19-10-87

Oh No Ono - Radio Sessions

Two sessions from Danish experimental pop band Oh No Ono.

Copenhagen X Session 2010
1. Miss Miss Moss
2. Ba Ba Baba Ba Ba Well Anyway
3. Fat Simon Says
Daytrotter Session 17-08-10
1. Internet Warrior
2. Miss Miss Moss
3. Swim
4. The Wave Ballet

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Daedelus - Radio Sets/Sessions

Three live sets from experimental electronic artist Daedelus.

Rob Da Bank set 18-02-07
1. BBC Radio 1 set (Running time: 13.47)
KCRW session 06-06-10
1. Fair Weather Friends/L.A. Nocturne/Order of the Golden Dawn
2. Stampede Me/Something Bells/I Took Two
Daytrotter Session 02-08-10
1. SXSW Set (Running time 13.37)

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The Seal Cub Clubbing Club - Marc Riley Session 14-12-10

The second Marc Riley session of the year from The Seal Cub Clubbing Club.

1. Supercars
2. Charity
3. Desperate Dan: Year One
4. Peewit

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See also:
The Seal Cub Clubbing Club - Marc Riley session 11-02-10