Tonight’s first spin chosen indirectly by @scotspostpunk: U2 live at the Marquee 1980. This string of weekly gigs was the stuff of legends - from a handful of folks to sellouts with crowds outside in the street in only 4 or 5 weeks. SPP and I were each able to catch one of these and - whatever your opinion if U2 today is - they we objectively shit hot then.
Originally a fan club release, this was repressed as a 2 x 10” LP in 2015.
@CCRGMac@scotspostpunk@vinylrecords I used to have a BBC alive recording, 30mins of stuff from Boy, possibly from around the time they were recording October? Top band then. Still worthy
@kennybrown131@scotspostpunk@vinylrecords There were some great shows on Rock Goes To College. I still have this cassette of Green On Red, signed by Chuck Prophet 30 years after the broadcast.
@TheVinylApe@kennybrown131@scotspostpunk@vinylrecords
Agree 100%. Here in the UK, we give a lot of credit to John Peel for bringing us music that we’d never heard before, but Andy Kershaw was the DJ who brought us Green On Red, The Long Ryders and a bunch more from all corners of the world.
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