Richard Thompson Big Band - 10 November 1983: London, England

Disc 1

  1. Tear Stained Letter
  2. How I Wanted To
  3. Amaryllis/Nonesuch A La Mode De France (Trad.)
  4. Don't Renege On Our Love
  5. Shoot Out The Lights
  6. Pennsylvania 6-5000 (Gray/Sigman)
  7. (Band Introductions)/Man In Need
  8. Back Street Slide
  9. Both Ends Burning
  10. Danny Boy (Weatherly)
  1. Banish Misfortune (Trad.)
  2. Honky-Tonk Blues (Williams)
  3. The Choice Wife (Trad.)
  4. Borrowed Time
1-10
Recorded live at The Venue in London, England on November 10, 1983
11-14
Recorded live for BBC London's Breakthrough programme on May 9, 1981.
"This is a couple of tunes now that had them jiving in the aisles during the Great Plague [...] Yes, there was music before Roxy Music" (before Amaryllis/Nonesuch A La Mode De France)

An FM broadcast from BBC London's In Concert series. This has definitely been edited, but I'm uncertain whether the original broadcast was more complete or if this represents the entire airing. What's here is well worth hearing, with Tear Stained Letter and the instrumentals amongst the highlights.

The filler is also a BBC London radio broadcast, this one an in-studio solo acoustic session for Breakthrough.

"This is a song that a rather well-known heavy metal band have just covered, so you'll have to use a lot of imagination to figure out how this sounds with 2,000 watts going down it..." (before Borrowed Time)