XTC, but not Peel?

[haze_harrison]

Hi David,

Did you ever find out where your Statue Of Liberty came from?

When you first asked I thought it might come from a 1980 BBC In Concert but when I looked on Transistor Blast CD4 it wasn't included so I concluded my memory was playing tricks (again). 

However, my cassette of the broadcast has come to the top of the ripping pile and SoL is the last track before Tommy Vance does the credits. 

Sadly I missed the first few minutes of "Life Begins At The Hop" but that is on the CD so no great loss. The CD version has two tracks not originally broadcast and my tape has three tracks not on the CD

I have uploaded my rip of the broadcast (sorry I can't do the Mooo at the moment)
https://rapidshare.com/files/1969840278/1980-12-22_XTC.mp3

Here is a combined tracklisting of Transistor Blast CD4 and the broadcast show....
Life Begins At The Hop
Helecopter (not on CD)
Burning With Optimism's Flame
Love At First Sight
Respectable Street
No Language In Our Lungs
This Is Pop
Scissor Man
Towers Of London (not broadcast)
Battery Brides (not broadcast)
Real By Reel (not on CD)
Living Through Another Cuba
General And Majors
Making Plans For Nigel
Are You Receiving Me
Statue Of Liberty (not on CD)
Tommy Vance outro and credits

Enjoy, Haze

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "dgmccarthy" <dgmccarthy@...> wrote:
>
> No, it's not the OGWT version, if that's the one on YouTube with Andy Partridge introducing it as "a Rita Coolidge number"!
> 
> This one is stereo, quite hissy with some channel dropouts and possibly a click or two; so maybe cassette from vinyl (and/or off-air).  It's quite distinctive at the start as there is a vocal mimicking the guitar strums.  The end is clipped which could be to cut a back-anno.
> 
> Anyway, wandering off the Peel track (except that it was listed as a session track) so I'll take it to an XTC forum and see what I can find out.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Stuart" <stuartb@> wrote:
> >
> > The track is on an Old Grey Whistle Test compilation released by BBC
> > Worldwide in 2001
> > http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Old-Grey-Whistle-Test/release/1093502 .
> > You might be able to deduce from the audio where the track came from. 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I think DLT would have been mono AM, if it came from the OGWT then mono but
> > better than AM quality (probably) unless recorded by mic from a TV, and if
> > in FM stereo then may have been the single played on JP? Or else a much
> > later rip form the OGWT DVD (though don't know if OGWT were recorded in
> > stereo at the time)
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Stuart
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >   _____  
> > 
> > From: peel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> > dgmccarthy
> > Sent: 05 April 2011 04:14
> > To: peel@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [peel] XTC, but not Peel?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >   
> > 
> > I have an mp3 of "Statue of Liberty" by XTC but do not know its provenance.
> > It came in a torrent as a fifth track with their 2nd Peel session but, by
> > all accounts (Ken Garner, BBC), there were only four tracks recorded and
> > "Statue" wasn't one of them. 
> > 
> > It's not Sight And Sound or OGWT or any other versions I can find on-line,
> > but I see from IST that they did record it for DLT in January 1978.
> > 
> > Does anyone have that session? Or can anyone suggest where this may have
> > come from? I can upload it if anyone's interested.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > David
> >
>