The Soundhouse Tapes And Rare Early Tracks 1978-1981

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Release Date: 2017

Label: Top Gear

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Liner Notes by DJ Neal Kay from "The Soundhouse Tapes" EP. Tracks 1 through 3.

Tracks 1 to 4 recorded at Spaceward Studios, Cambridge on 31st December 1978.
Tracks 1 to 3 released privately as The Soundhouse Tapes on 9th October 1979.
Track 4 appeared on Best Of The Beast in September 1996.
Track 5 recorded at BBC Maida Vale Studios, London for the Friday Night Rock Show on 14th November 1979.
Tracks 6 and 7 recorded at EMI Studios London on 24th October 1979. Released on Metal For Muthas on 15th February 1980.
Tracks 8 and 9 recorded at Wessex Sound Studios on 25th and 26th November 1979.
Track 8 originally released (by mistake) on Axe Attack.
Track 9 released as a B-side of Running Free on 8th February 1980.
Tracks 10 and 11 recorded live at Marquee Club, London on 3rd April. Both released as B-sides of Sanctuary on 23rd May 1980.
Tracks 12 and 13 recorded at Battery Studios, London in the summer of 1980. Both released on Women In Uniform on 27th October 1980.
Tracks 14 and 15 recorded live at Marquee Club, London on 4th July 1980.
Track 14 released as a B-side on the 12-inch versions of Women In Uniform on 27th October 1980.
Track 15 released on Live!! + One November 1980.
Tracks 16 to 20 recorded at Kosei Nenkin Hall, Nagoya on 23rd May 1981. Originally released as Maiden Japan in September 1981.

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