Another band rapidly approaching the 30th anniversary milestone is Scottish band, Teenage Fanclub. The band formed in 1989 and released their first album, A Catholic Education in 1990. They hit their stride with 1991's classic, Bandwagonesque and continued an incredible run through the 90's of some great albums. As recently as this month, TFC re-released on vinyl and digital their five Creation label era albums (Bandwagonesque, Thirteen, Grand Prix, Songs From Northern England and Howdy!) remastered with a 7" of rarities included with each record. To celebrate these reissues the band is touring in October and November, Songs From Teenage Fanclub: The Creation Years playing in four cities, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham and London performing three nights in each with a setlist from different periods of the Creation era (night one: songs from 1991-93, night two: songs from 94-97, night three: 98-00). As well, the band announced tour dates to Japan, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand in February and also the news that founding member bass player, Gerald Love will not accompany the band on that tour and beyond. Love explained he was reluctant to fly frequently around the world and that the split was amicable, that he didn't quit the band nor was he fired. Sparky's Dream might just be the greatest song ever! He will be surely missed.
Originally, I wasn't planning to include a Teenage Fanclub show for the 12 Days of Trouble series, but I was spinning this disc the other night while reading the news about Gerald's departure and thought it would be a timely post. I chose this show from the Phoenix Festival in 1997 because the sound quality is flawless, their performance is spot on and the setlist is from my favourite TFC era. It is without doubt my best-loved TFC live recording as all but one song from the set is from their trio of their greatest albums (my opinion, but I don't think I'm alone with that statement), Bandwagonesque, Grand Prix and Songs of Northern England. An absolutely perfect recording that I'm surprised it hasn't been officially released yet. Trust me, this is a good one!
Enjoy!!
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TEENAGE FANCLUB
Phoenix Festival
Stratford Upon Avon, England
July 18, 1997
Source: FM Broadcast
Lineage: Unknown, but the sound quality is amazing
01. Start Again
02. Don't Look Back
03. I Don't Care
04. Alcoholiday
05. Mellow Doubt
06. Ain't That Enough
07. About You
08. Starsign
09. Neil Jung
10. Sparky's Dream
11. He'd Be A Diamond
12. The Concept
TEENAGE FANCLUB- 1997-07-18 Phoenix Festival FLAC. rar
Wow!! Thank you so much for this treasure - it sounds amazing.
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