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The Jam live in Newcastle from October 1980, a blistering gig, with the band at their peak, previewing songs from forthcoming album ‘Sound Affects’.
In the time between The Jam’s show at Reading University (on Disc 3 of the ‘Fire & Skill’ box set) and their appearance at Newcastle City Hall 20 months later, there had been more extraordinary developments in the group’s world. ‘Setting Sons’, their fourth album, had given them a Top 3 hit with ‘The Eton Rifles’, which was followed in February 1980 with the stirring Number 1 single, ‘Going Underground’. After three years on Polydor, The Jam had finally become the biggest group in the UK.
Tracklisting:
Disc One
Side 1
1.Intro
2.Dreamtime
3.Thick As Thieves
4.Boy About Town
5.Monday
6.Going Underground
7.Pretty Green
Side 2
1.Man In The Corner Shop
2.Set The House Ablaze
3.Private Hell
4.Liza Radley
5.Dreams Of Children
6.The Modern World
Disc Two
Side 1
1.Little Boy Soldiers
2.But I’m Different Now
3.Start!
4.Scrape Away
5.Strange Town
6.When You’re Young
Side 2
1.The Eton Rifles
2.Billy Hunt
3.Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
4.To Be Someone
5.‘A’ Bomb In Wardour Street
6.David Watts
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