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PAUL WELLER
Huxley's Neue Welt, Berlin, GER 23. Apr. 2006
Soundboard
Disc 1:
01. From The Floorboards Up
02. Paper Smile
03. Out Of The Sinking
04. Science
05. Above The Clouds
06. Amongst Butterflies
07. Running On The Spot
08. Savages > Fly Little Bird
09. Up In Suze's Room
10. Wild Wood
11. Come On / Let's Go
12. Porcelain Gods > Walk On Gilded Splinters
Disc 2:
01. The Pebble And The Boy
02. You Do Something To Me
03. Long Hot Summer
04. Here's The Good News
05. In The Crowd
06. The Changing Man
07. Foot Of The Mountain
encore:
08. Broken Stones
09. A Town Called Malice
approx. 110 mins
recording info:
recorded by radioeins
PreFM Soundboard CD > EAC (logs included) >
TLH (with align on sector boundaries) > flac
Paul Weller - SFB Sendesall - Berlin 7th April 2001 [FM]
Sound Quality : FM Broadcast
Length . 74.51
01. Intro
02. Out Of The Sinking
03. Foot Of The Mountain
04. You Do Something To Me
05. Brand New Start
06. Clues
07. Country
08. Amongst Butterflies
09. Science
10. Back In The Fire
11. Sweet Pea, My Sweet Pea
12. That`s Entertainment
13. Down In The Seine
14. Wild Wood
15. There`s No Drinking
16. Everything Has A price To Pay
17. Headstart For Happiness
18. Fly On The Wall
01 Start
02 It’s Too Bad
03 Beat Surrender
04 Away From The Numbers
05 Ghost
06 In The Crowd
07 Boy About Town
08 So Sad About Us
09 All Mod Cons
10 To Be Someone
11 Smithers Jones
12 The Great Depression
13 Precious
14 Move On Up
15 Circus
16 Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
17 The Gift
18 David Watts
19 Mr. Clean
20 Pretty Green
21 Town Called Malice
22 Transglobal Express
23 Dreams Of Children
24 In The City
25 Going Underground
Known Issues:
-Transglobal Express: almost seamless splice
Introduction to the Beat Surrender-Final Tour Series
JEMS is pleased to launch a new series chronicling the final tour of one of our very favorite bands, The Jam. I’ve been a huge fan of the Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler since 1982, discovering them just months after their last North American dates. In fact, JEMS’ own Stan Gutoski drove to Vancouver and recorded them at the Kerrisdale Arena in June. By the time I was deeply immersed, they were already playing their farewell Beat Surrender tour in late November and December 1982.
Other bands broke up while they were at the peak of the powers and many of those eventually reunited. Of the few who didn’t (The Smiths and The Clash come to mind), The Jam is perhaps the ultimate example of calling it at day overtly at the height of their popularity and never looking back. The trio’s final single, “Beat Surrender,” which also serves as the name of their farewell tour, is one of my favorite songs ever by any artist. That I never got to see them play is one of my biggest rock and roll regrets.
But that is decidedly NOT the case for our friend RG. He became a huge Jam fan five years earlier and despite living in LA, he got to know Weller and the band. Incredibly, when The Jam announced their break-up and final tour, RG decided he had to go to the UK to see them. Not just one last time, but see EVERY SINGLE SHOW ON THE FINAL TOUR.
That’s right, RG was there for every night of the Beat Surrender tour, from opening night in Glasgow, through five nights and Wembley Arena, and the last show ever at The Centre in Brighton on December 11. Better still, RG recorded all the shows.
Those of you familiar with New Wave in LA, our on-going series of RG recordings done in Los Angeles circa 1977-85, will know RG didn’t have Millard-level equipment, but he was at the right shows at the right time, none more so than The Jam’s last tour.
RG did make copies of most of these shows for fellow fans back in the day. As such, we believe many of the extant recordings from the Beat Surrender tour were made by RG but suffer from considerable generation loss. Many of these venues were also acoustically challenged, so the recordings vary from passable to good. But few if any alternate recordings of the band’s farewell shows have ever surfaced, meaning RG’s tapes are often the only available captures of these historic performances.
For the first time, RG’s master tapes have been properly transferred and digitized. While the overall quality is still challenging, especially for some shows, they should all prove to be upgrades to circulating versions and to the best or our knowledge, represent the best available documents of the concerts, save for two of the five Wembley shows which have been officially released in the last 10 years.
Apollo Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland, November 25, 1982
First up in the series is opening night at the Apollo Theatre in Glasgow. The show came just three days after the release of the single “Beat Surrender” which became the band’s fourth song to debut at No. 1 on the UK singles chart and 20 days after the band performed it live on the premiere episode of legendary television series, The Tube.
Glasgow has something of a dream setlist as the band balanced recent material with more career-spanning choice including their debut single, “In The City.” Classics like “Start,” “Down In The Tube Station At Midnight,” “Town Called Malice” and “Going Underground” all feature, along with several sublime choices like “Ghost,” “Away From The Numbers,” “All Mod Cons” into “To Be Someone” and “Dreams Of Children.” We also get covers of Curtis Mayfield’s “Move On Up” and The Kinks’ “David Watts.” What’s not to like.
Sound quality for Glasgow is representative of the better recordings RG grabbed on the tour, clear, if low-fi and with an understandably excited audience. Samples provided.
I truly stand in awe of the fact that RG traveled to the UK and documented these shows. For a kid born and raised in LA to see the Jam’s last 14 gigs is miraculous. Thanks to him for letting us release these tapes and hopefully provide upgrades to Jam fans everywhere.
Thanks as well to mjk5510, for taking the driver’s seat on this series. All sonic improvements made after my cassette transfers are thanks to him.