Howard Devoto - Jerky Versions Of The Dream - 1983

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Originally posted August 22, 2015

Howard Devoto - Jerky Versions Of The Dream

Studio Recordings @320

{Out of Print}

Easily as good as anything from his Magazine days, Devoto's first solo lp follows on thematically (if not chronologically!) from the excellent 'Correct Use of Soap'. This sees young Howie stepping light, almost delicately through this clipped, precise collection of songs. Its as if he's deliberately moved away from previous somber (but beautiful) Mags fare and is exploring lighter, may one suggest, happier territory..

The album is chock full of clever lyrics and subtle, insidious pop melodies. There's at least 6 other songs of  haunting, deliberate sleights of hand, swirling infectious snippets of soulful wizardry.

It has stood times test superbly,and is as good for us today as its always been. Devoto's lp deserves much wider recognition than it got in 1983

~Paul Ess

Track List:

1. Cold Imagination
2. Topless
3. Rainy Season
4. I Admire You
5. Way Out Of Shape
6. Some Will Pay (For What Others Pay To Avoid)
7. Waiting For a Train
8. Out Of Shape With Me
9. Taking Over Heaven
10. Seeing Is Believing

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Magazine - Megapost III Live 2011

Rebooted...
Originally posted March 28, 2015
A Dave Sez contribution...

Magazine Live - 2011

Wolverhampton &
Manchester Academy

@flac

 

From the Dave Sez archive:
Thanks to the late great tarquinlive.blogspot.com, two AUD FLAC B+/B- recordings of Magazine with five tracks (*) from the new CD, "No Thyself" (2011). Tracklists and gig posters included, no cover art. Barry Adamson did not play on the new album nor during the 2011 live tour: the new bassist was "Jon 'Stan' White, who first played live with Magazine on 30 June 2011 in Wolverhampton" - see http://thequietus.com/articles/07193-magazine-howard-devoto-interview.

Howard Devoto - Vocals
Jon 'Stan' White - Bass guitar
Dave Formula - Keyboards
John Doyle - Drums
Noko - Guitar

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Wolverhampton Slade Rooms, 30 June 2011
(warm-up gig for November tour)
01 Intro music
02 (mainly instrumental with spoken word bit at the end)
03 The Light Pours Out of Me
04 Because You're Frightened
05 Motorcade
06 A Song From Under the Floorboards
07 Parade
08 Hello Mr Curtis*
09 Permafrost
10 Definitive Gaze
11 Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)
12 Shot by Both Sides
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Manchester Academy, 04 November 2011
01-Real Life
02-Give Me Everything
03-Motorcade
04-Happening In English*
05-The Worst Of Progress*
06-A Song From Under The Floorboards
07-Philadelphia
08-Parade
09-Rhythm of Cruelty
10-Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
11-Holy Dotage*
12-Permafrost
13-The Light Pours Out Of Me
14-Final Analysis Waltz*
15-band intro
16-Shot By Both Sides
17-I Love You Big Dummy

 

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Wolverhampton '11

Manchester '11

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Magazine - Megapost Part II

Rebooted...
A Dave Sez contribution
Originally posted March 3, 2015

Magazine - Live

Zodiac, Oxford, 10th February

Roundhouse, London, 22nd October 2009

Jools Holland

FM Source, Broadcast source @320

From the Dave Sez archive:
Continuing the Magazine Megapost to cover their reunion from 2009 on, two top-quality recordings, first of the secret warm-up gig at the Zodiac Oxford, and then the BBC recordings made at the Roundhouse and on the Jools Holland show. All A+ @320, full cover art included.

Howard Devoto - Vocals
Barry Adamson - Bass guitar
Dave Formula - Keyboards
John Doyle - Drums
Noko - Guitar
Rosalie Cunningham - Backing Vocals

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Zodiac, Oxford, 10th February 2009:

01 - Intro
02 - The Light Pours Out Of Me
03 - Model Worker
04 - The Great Beautician In The Sky
05 - Because You're Frightened
06 - You Never Knew Me
07 - Rhythm Of Cruelty
08 - I Want To Burn Again
09 - The Great Man's Secrets
10 - A Song From Under The Floorboards
11 - Permafrost
12 - The Book
13 - Twenty Years Ago
14 - Definitive Gaze
15 - band intros - Parade
17 - Shot By Both Sides
18 - Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
19 - Motorcade
20 - I Love You, You Big Dummy

Thanks to Eddie Duquenne at wwwadnauseam.blogspot.com

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Roundhouse, London, 22nd October 2009 ('Electric Proms'):

1.Shot By Both Sides.
2.Rhythm Of Cruelty.
3.A Song From Under The Floorboards.
4.Thank You Fallettinme Be Mice Elf Agin.
5.Sweetheart Contract.
6.Feed The Enemy.
7.Give Me Everything.
8.The Book.
9.Twenty Years Ago - The Light Pours Out Of Me.
10.I Love You, You Big Dummy.

Later With Jools Holland, 13th October 2009:

11.Shot By Both Sides.
12.A Song From Under The Floorboards.
13.The Light Pours Out Of Me.

Thanks to royrocket of the late great rocketremnants.blogspot.com and to Pip at guitars101.com.

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Available on request: 
Five AUD FLAC recordings from 2009-2011 by the great tarquinlive. 

 
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Oxford

Electric Proms + Jools

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Magazine Mega Post - Part I

Rebooted...
Presented by Dave Sez...
Last posted July 24, 2014

MAGAZINE MEGAPOST
PART ONE 1976-1980
by Dave Sez

Here, in approximate chronological order, are the Magazine video and audio recordings that I have been able to find on the World Wide Wobble.

Here ya go:

Buzzcocks & Magazine videos (.flv files, 113 MB) 1976-80

Buzzcocks - Breakdown 1976
Magazine - Burst Granada TV 1978
Magazine - Definitive Gaze OGWT
Magazine - Motorcade Elizabethan Ballroom 1977 (25 MB)
Magazine - Motorcade live nov77 Queen Elizabethan Ballroom, Belle Vue, Manchester (13 MB)
Magazine - promo Feed the Enemy
Magazine - promo Light Pours out of me
Magazine - promo Motorcade
Magazine - Secondhand Daylight
Magazine - TOTP 16.2.78 Shot by Both Sides
Magazine - Touch and Go

'76-'80


Buzzcocks & Magazine - 1978 Granada TV 
show "B'dum B'dum" 
(DVD full, pro-shot, 1.4 GB).
A 'What's On' special featuring the Buzzcocks and Magazine, broadcast on Granada TV on July 27th, 1978 and presented by Tony Wilson. This copy appears to be taken directly from the production master, complete with slates. I've created a DVD out of it using TMPGEnc. Here are the technical data as reported by G-Spot: Audio: 48000Hz, 256 kb/s, stereo (2/0), Video: 704x576, 25fps (4:3) PAL. The programme lasts nearly 40 minutes and consists mainly of Tony Wilson interviewing Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto, but there is also live footage of both bands shot at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester on July 21st, 1978.

15 chapters:

01. Slate Part 1
02. Section 1
03. Buzzcocks: What Do I Get?
04. Section 3
05. Magazine: Motorcade
06. Section 4
07. Slate Part 2
08. Section 6
09. Buzzcocks: Love You More
10. Section 8
11. Magazine: Burst
12. Section 10
13. Buzzcocks: I Don't Mind
14. Section 12
15. Buzzcocks with Howard Devoto: I Can't Control Myself

Here is an 80MB version as 7 flv files:
FLV


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Magazine - The Crown Jewels: 
the Definitive Daze bootleg (FLAC)

Details and covers: http://www.bootlegzone.com/album.php?name=MCD001&section=664

Demos, Pennine Studios. Sept '77:

01.Shot By Both Sides
02.Sandwiches [early version Of "My Mind Ain't So Open"]
03.The Light Pours Out Of Me
04.Motorcade
05.Touch & Go
06.Burst

Live at The Electric Circus. 02.10.77, recorded for the Electric Circus 10" LP but never used.

01.Shot By Both Sides
02.The Light Pours Out Of Me
03.I Love You, You Big Dummy

Flac - Daze

MP3 Daze

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Next up, one of Magazine's earliest TV performances, at the  
BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test 
Studio in London on 19th September 1978. MPEG video thanks to DCRoom4

OGWT - London

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Magazine - Hurrah’s, NYC - 2nd August 1979  
(FM, mp3 @ 320)

The sound quality is very good. There are a few spots where the radio seems to have lost reception during the recording, but it's only a minor distraction.

Setlist: [from cassette tape]
01. My Tulpa
02. Give Me Everything
03. Definitive Gaze
04. Parade
05. Boredom [Buzzcocks]
06. Permafrost
07. The Light Pours Out Of Me
08. Shot By Both Sides

Thanks to bat29 of the late great noiseaddiction.blogspot.com.

Hurrah's '79


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Magazine - Paradise Club, Boston - 4th August 1979 
(FM, FLAC, 294 MB).
The first and best live vinyl bootleg, Back to Nature. Full covers and text included.

01.My Tulpa
02.Give Me Everything
03.Definitive Gaze
04.Back To Nature
05.Parade
06.Boredom
07.Permafrost
08.The Light Pours Out Of Me
09.I Love You, You Big Dummy
10.Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
11.My Mind Ain't So Open

Thanks to Dark Circle Room 4
Boston

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Magazine - Melkweg, Amsterdam - 8th June 1980 
(FM, FLAC)

01. Intro
02. I'm A Party
03. Permafrost
04. The Light Pours Out Of Me
05. You Never Knew Me
06. Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin
07. Shot By Both Sides
08. Song From Under The Floorboards
09. Outro

Thanks to DCR4 for flac and AuralSculptors for mp3

Flac

MP3

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Magazine - Main Act, Lynn, Mass. 10th August 1980 
(mp3 @ 256)

01.Intro - The Book
02.Feed The Enemy
03.Stuck
04.I'm A Party
05.Permafrost
06.The Light Pours Out Of Me
07.Because You're Frightened
08.Parade
09.Thank You [Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin]
10.Shot By Both Sides
11.I Want To Burn Again
12.A Song From Under The Floorboards
13.Model Worker
14.Twenty Years Ago
15.Definitive Gaze
16.Give Me Everything

Thanks to Marky Dread!

Lynn, MA. '80

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 Magazine - 1980.08.15 Fox Warfield, San Francisco

This top-quality soundboard recording made by KALX FM engineer Terry Hammer is online, in FLAC at http://darkcircleroom4.blogspot.com/2020/04/magazinedead-boysthe-members-fox.html or as one mp3@320 file at pastdaily at http://pastdaily.com/2014/07/12/magazine-live-fox-warfield-1980-nights-roundtable-concert-edition/

(Click on the Audio Player link, then, as the music plays, (right click/save) as on the file menu and download).

Other groups are also covered: http://pastdaily.com/?s=Terry+Hammer, or http://darkcircleroom4.blogspot.com/2020/04/ultravox-old-waldorf-san-francisco-ca.html and http://darkcircleroom4.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-jam-fox-warfield-san-francisco-ca.html.

Terry's recordings, not all available: http://www.angelfire.com/oh/liveperformances/livetapes.html. Terry's youtube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_FrVJcRG0ocgJ8gTjnb-Qg which includes tons of groups not upped to pastdaily - due to the low bitrate of youtube, best to get the recording from pastdaily or darkcircleroom4.

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Magazine - Music Hall Theatre, Toronto, Canada 
21st August 1980 
(FM, FLAC)

1. A Song From Under The Floorboards
2. Permafrost
3. The Light Pours Out Of Me (sung in French)
4. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
5. Parade
6. Philadelphia
7. I Want To Burn Again
8. Because You're Frightened
9. Model Worker

Thanks to...DCR4
Toronto


mp3version
Thanks to rabbit

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Magazine - Rydalmere Inn, Sydney Australia  
20th September 1980 (mp3 @ 320)

A worrying tinny beginning for ten seconds but then an excellent soundboard recording and solid performance. Eight of these songs were remastered and officially released on the Live And Intermittent CD several years ago. These are the un-remastered and unreleased versions from a cassette rip.

01. Feed The Enemy
02. Stuck
03. A Song From Under The Floorboards
04. Permafrost
05. The Light Pours Out of Me
06. Model Worker
07. Parade
08. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
09. Sweetheart Contract
10. I Want To Burn Again
11. Because You're Frightened
12. I Love You, You Big Dummy
13. Twenty Years
14. Definitive Gaze

Thanks to bat29 of the late great noiseaddiction.blogspot.com;
he continues to blog at https://noiseaddiction2.blogspot.com.

Sydney

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Magazine - Metropol, Berlin 
30th October 1980, Rockpalast
Audio (FLAC) and video (.flv, 420 MB)

01.Feed The Enemy
02.Give Me Everything
03.Stuck
04.I'm A Party
05.A Song From Under The Floorboards
06.The Great Beautician In The Sky
07.Permafrost
08.The Light Pours Out Of Me
09.Model Worker
10.Parade
11.Thank You [Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin]
12.Because You're Frightened
13.I Love You, You Big Dummy

Audio- Thanks to DRC4
Rockpalast

Video:
Rockpalast '80


Part 2 of the megapost covering the Magazine reformation in 2009 will follow. Cheers for now, Dave Sez.

Howard Devoto - Pandora's Music Box Festival 1983

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Luxuria - Beast Box -1990 {Out of Print}

Luxuria - Beast Box -1990 

Studio Recordings @ 320

{Out of Print}

Luxuria was a British pop music band made up of vocalist Howard Devoto (formerly of Buzzcocks and Magazine) and instrumentalist Norman Fisher-Jones, aka "Noko." The band was active in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Devoto and Noko met through Pete Shelley, supposedly bonding over a competition to read Marcel Proust (Noko won). The two recorded six collections of material.
In 1987, they signed to Beggars Banquet and formed Luxuria. In 1988, they released their debut album, Unanswerable Lust. Their second and final album, Beast Box, was released in 1990.
~Wiki

Anyone remember this recording? I had forgotten all about Howard Devoto and The Luxuria project put together by him and former bandmate Noko until digging through my music looking for something else. An excellent recording, stands up really well even 25 years later!

Track List:
The Beast Box is Dreaming
Stupid Blood
Against the Past
Our Curious Leader
We Keep on Getting There
Ticket
Animal in the Mirror
Dirty Beating Heart
Smoking Mirror
I've Been Expecting You
Karezza
Beast Box

Enjoy or Not!

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