Transistor Blast (The Best Of The BBC Sessions)

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Release Date: 1998-10-29

Label: Cooking Vinyl

Released as paper-laminated cardboard slipcase box, with the discs in transparent coloured J-card cases (green, orange, yellow and pink, each with an individual illustration printed on the front), and including a 12-page booklet with liner notes and credits.

Bottom spine of the box:
This compilation ℗ 1998 Cooking Vinyl. This compilation © 1998 Cooking Vinyl
Released by arrangement with BBC Music
MADE IN ENGLAND

Booklet:
CD1 and CD2 contain studio-recordings made for & transmitted on various radio shows (recorded/transmitted) by the BBC:
• John Peel Show: 1-12 (20.6.77/24.6.77); 1-9, 2-7, 2-11 (21.9.77/26.9.77); 2-5, 2-8 (13.11.78/23.11.78); 1-1, 1-5, 1-13, 2-3 (8.10.79/15.10.79).
• Kid Jensen Show: 1-2, 1-8, 2-12 (21.5.79/31.5.79); 1-7, 2-1, 2-10, 2-13 (14.1.82/25.1.82).
• Bruno Brookes Show Oct. 1984: 1-4, 1-11, 2-9 (-/19-22.11.84).
• Sunday Live: 1-1, 2-4 (-/22.2.87).
• Richard Skinner Show: 1-3, 2-6 (16.3.89/5.4.89).
• Andy Kershaw Show: 1-6, 2-2 (16.3.89/11.6.89).

CD3 contains recordings from two live performances in 1978 and 1979:
• recorded for Sight & Sound In Concert at The Hippodrome, Golders Green, London (9.3.78): 3-1, 3-2, 3-4, 3-6 to 3-8, 3-10 to 3-12.
• recorded for In Concert at Paris Theatre, London (17.1.79): 3-3, 3-5, 3-9.

CD4 was entirely recorded for In Concert at Hammersmith Palais (22.12.80) and is identical to XTC - In Concert-246

All songs published by Virgin/EMI except:
Track 3-8 published by D.Feldman & Co (UK publisher) Dwarf Music (USA)

The speech in 1-1 is by Andy Partridge but imitating John Peel.

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