The Blue Nile - Free Trade Hall, Manchester - 21/09/1990 (As broadcast by The BBC)

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  • I used to really enjoy listening and indeed recording the BBC Radio 1 In Concert series on a Saturday evening during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. I still have the cassette tapes and as the BBC has no immediate plan to make these available to the public I have decided to release close to 250 of these historical recordings on my TH-cam channel.
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  • @reubenroman8801
    @reubenroman8801 4 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    One of the greatest (and criminally overlooked) bands ever. Life changing music.

    • @brett66
      @brett66 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yeah, it's crazy how influential they've ended up being. Talk Talk as well. I think they just tapped into some deeply resonant well.

    • @romanschokutas8729
      @romanschokutas8729 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@brett66 Базара нет, согласен они безумны - это бесконечнось.

    • @Jonni1027
      @Jonni1027 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@brett66Yes, and Talk Talk too! Mad respect for both bands❤️

    • @tgtrout
      @tgtrout 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And Level 42 as well.

    • @cmcc3721
      @cmcc3721 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@tgtrout Yeah. Now you're pushing it in the creativity stakes lol

  • @georgeoldham8899
    @georgeoldham8899 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    I'm 80 years' old. Please, please, Paul, try and get the guys together, if only for one last gig, before I pop my clogs.

    • @davidizod1243
      @davidizod1243 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      You still with us, George?

    • @martinespinomusic
      @martinespinomusic ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I agree

    • @ruudvandiermen8747
      @ruudvandiermen8747 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hope you are still able to listen to them George, peace for you Ruud from the Netherlands ❤

    • @wendyhandley9463
      @wendyhandley9463 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I do really hope for the same thing

    • @troytempest290
      @troytempest290 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The only band I’d cross the globe to see.

  • @robinvanzelst828
    @robinvanzelst828 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    I was there!!! So bloody good to find it here. The finest gig I've ever attended. The audience so profoundly absorbed in each and every song. It is very difficult to describe such a soul filling experience; communal musical hypnosis. I will never forget this evening over thirty years ago! Thank you Blue Nile.

    • @ianwright4324
      @ianwright4324 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      You're right Robin.. this gig was the closest I've come to a religious experience. You will know what I mean..

    • @mccallkeller578
      @mccallkeller578 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ianwright4324 wow that's amazing to hear. I was just listening to a podcast of some guys reviewing A Walk Across the Rooftops and they all seemed to agree that The Blue Nile seemed like they would be the worst perfomring band of all time. I had a hard time agreeing and glad to hear this proves them wrong.

    • @ianwright4324
      @ianwright4324 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​​@@mccallkeller578 well those guys must be complete idiots then. The Blue Nile are one of the finest live bands ever to set foot on stage. And nobody needs to take my word for it...they just have to read the comments on here and anywhere else on you tube !!

  • @eddiesmith514
    @eddiesmith514 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I was at this concert - the fourth ever concert the Blue Nile did. Thirty years on this recording fills me with the emotions I had that night. Beautiful.

    • @brumanlcy
      @brumanlcy ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I was there too. I didn't know it was only their fourth gig ever! I went backstage and met them. And then we bumped into them later in The Hacienda.

  • @sdc8547
    @sdc8547 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Paul Buchanan's voice is just stunning, heartbreaking, emotive and fabulous. 👍

    • @graemeyetts3465
      @graemeyetts3465 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      A voice that can reduce me to tears! ❤

  • @scientifico
    @scientifico 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I caught this tour when they came to NYC. I was a young man on a motorcycle who rode in from the outer boros... parked downtown and walked into the venue with the others (a rarified few) who loved Blue Nile. When they began... to hear Walk Across the Rooftops as I'd heard it all those times before... alone, in my room with the emotions washing over me was almost too much to bear.
    For all my affectations, all my leather jackets and motorcycles and pierced ears.. I was a lovelorn and melancholic youth more suited to books and solitary interests. And all I ever wanted was to share my love for such things and The Blue Nile with a woman of a particular beauty; a woman of intelligence and kind eyes. A woman with soft hands for kneading bread or playing a piano or painting a canvas. A woman who would understand why 40 years later... I can still feel tears welling in my eyes at the memory and the realization that I'd had her and lost her.

  • @user-ou8zy2xr6k
    @user-ou8zy2xr6k 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Okay, I think this is the concert I attended as a 21 year old. I shouted out EADGBE whilst Mr Buchanan was having a guitar tuning problem (only he chuckled - I was an idiot of course). The next day me and my late father (who introduced me to the Blue Nile) were painting the outside of a soon to be nightclub on Back Tib Street Manchester (the Sound Garden). Out of Sasha's hotel came the Blue Nile. I shouted EADGBE at them. They came over and we had a chat. Lovely people. Perhaps it was not this concert, but there's the anecdote. OH GOD, that's me shouting. don't be nervous. I was such a fool and there's my stupid EADGBE heckle. As a 54 year old, that's my only claim to fame. What a band. What a voice. Tinsel Town was played at my dad's funeral.

    • @chrisward2162
      @chrisward2162 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lol. Was that you? I remember it well.

    • @paulmca9731
      @paulmca9731 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I’m sure I’ve heard that audio too and Paul laughed out loud. Brilliant memory to have mate.

    • @ianwright4324
      @ianwright4324 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No way..that was you?? I was there too and remember it vividly!

    • @jeffblack5024
      @jeffblack5024 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      God, I remember it like it was yesterday. I saw them again at the Opera House a few years later and Paul said "I'm not tangling with any Manchester wits". You obviously made an impression.

  • @davidizod1243
    @davidizod1243 5 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    I saw them a week after this was recorded, in Birmingham on the 20th September. It was the most extraordinary night of my life. Their surprise and humility at being adored was touching. At the end of the show, Paul said he was quite happy to play some more songs but they didn't know any, so they played Tinseltown again and got an even bigger ovation than they did the first time they played it.

    • @JoyDivision88
      @JoyDivision88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      If the Birmingham performance you attended was at the Symphony Hall then my wife and I also attended that show. Of all the concerts I have attended since 1968 I think that concert has to be in the top three that I have experienced. The sound quality and musicianship was fantastic.

    • @MD-yl1ji
      @MD-yl1ji 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I was there .. what a gig.

    • @DNR5586
      @DNR5586 ปีที่แล้ว

      They did the same thing here in the states. 13th Aug 1990 in Atlanta, GA.

  • @kittty2023
    @kittty2023 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I'm from Russia. Moreover, I'm only 21 y.o. But I wish I could be there, on that concert in Manchester. So, there's nothing I can do but listening this record in the night... and crying

  • @louisrichards3160
    @louisrichards3160 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    In a concert hall, I’ve never ever felt as much humility from band members EVER! These men have a gift and I’m SO Lucky to have to been born in Their time🙏

  • @grbookworm1984
    @grbookworm1984 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I'm years late at nineteen years of age, but this music speaks to me like nothing else. There's something special about Paul Buchanan conveying so much emotion through the lyrics. And the synths! Wow.

    • @Wwhite111
      @Wwhite111 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Join the club, your in it for life . Been listening to The Blue Nile since I was your age, I'm 54 now, still get goosebumps! Enjoy.

  • @glenrichardson6396
    @glenrichardson6396 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    That amazing list he recites 40 mins in at the end of Downtown Lights. It's even better than on the album. He's one of the great pop singers ever. The gratitude and love that audience show. Just beautiful.

  • @bluevees6516
    @bluevees6516 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I've been to literally hundreds of gigs and although they each had an individuality this gig had it all. Laughter, tears, love,astonishment. With my head phones on I'm 35 again on that very special night. The crowd were so with the band it's the likes I've never seen before. I think I cried more that night than when my sons were born. Truly lifechanging.

  • @robwilcox302
    @robwilcox302 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I only just discovered this band and it feels like a long lost friend

  • @hughogilvie8717
    @hughogilvie8717 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Paul's voice is a pure, heart worn miracle - it is as important a projection as Mark Hollis, Mark Eitzel and Jeff Buckley ; yup, that transformational in its pull and push and raw vulnerability. It has rarely been matched since...

    • @Joolzratbag
      @Joolzratbag 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      you sir, have excellent taste in vocalists!

    • @davidcopson5800
      @davidcopson5800 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters).

  • @carlomanson3587
    @carlomanson3587 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I had no idea tne BBC were there. A part of my youth I thought I'd lost this forever. Thank you so much. RIP the best venue ever. The fact the band never new how appreciated they were, hundreds of people crying in ecstacy in the audience. The band shed many a tear too. An emotional evening.

    • @Anderzander
      @Anderzander 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Carlo Manson I was there too - so much love and so many tears. What an experience it was.

  • @grahamthomson7087
    @grahamthomson7087 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    You cannot better The Blue Nile songbook songs that can uplift and bring tears at the same time the perfect vocalist with master musicians who wrote and played so many perfect songs long live The Blue Nile music to last forever

  • @aldobenincasa1761
    @aldobenincasa1761 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "Yes, I love you
    But it's easy come, and it's easy go"......that's all, magnificent song

  • @DfactorPop
    @DfactorPop 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Saw The Blue Nile twice live! Once in London (on this '90 tour) and again in Brussels a few years later! Fantastic shows, wonderful memories. I've been touting Paul B's virtues for years to anyone who will listen!

  • @stephenmccann2847
    @stephenmccann2847 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This recording is amazing and a tribute to one of the Greatest bands of all time

  • @343434richie
    @343434richie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The world needs the music of The Blue Nile

    • @scientifico
      @scientifico 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lord, I wish the world were compassionate a place to appreciate them.

  • @Jonni1027
    @Jonni1027 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Not ever hearing of the Blue Nile before I remember that my late husband and I read a review of their (sold out of course) concert at the Fillmore in San Francisco in 1990 and the reviewer was so blissed out from attending that we went out and bought that first album and subsequently everything Blue Nile.
    Wondrous!❤

    • @ericlindsey3069
      @ericlindsey3069 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Sorry for the loss of your smart, tasteful music loving partner.

    • @Jonni1027
      @Jonni1027 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@ericlindsey3069 Thank you for saying that Eric. It’s not easy finding musically adventurous people😁. We’ve tried to raise our daughter with the same appetites. She was 12 when he passed and she’s now 25 and is a very smart cookie... she’s a high school English teacher...but alas, she loves pop-country😣 hahaha. Where did we go wrong. I must add though that I NEVER attack her music preferences.. that would be unkind

    • @ericlindsey3069
      @ericlindsey3069 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Jonni1027 Aw, it sounds like you've done a lovely job of raising her. I don't like country much, but even I can find a catchy pop-country song having some pop charm on occasion. Likeminded music soul surfers are hard to find, feel free to write -forcl03 at yhoo! Late happy holidays from the west coast!

    • @Jonni1027
      @Jonni1027 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ericlindsey3069 ☺️... Thanks Eric... and where are you on the west coast

    • @ericlindsey3069
      @ericlindsey3069 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Jonni1027 Cali, Bay Area!

  • @draxxxx
    @draxxxx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    00:00 - A Walk Across the Rooftops
    04:59 - Tinseltown in the Rain
    11:34 - Heatwave
    18:13 - Over the Hillside
    -- (23:39 - speech)
    24:00 - Stay
    29:31 - Easter Parade
    -- (34:10 - "don't be nervous")
    34:42 - The Downtown Lights
    -- (41:41 - tuning)
    42:03 - Saturday Night
    -- (48:28 - thanks)
    48:54 - Headlights on the Parade

    • @Ryanbrio
      @Ryanbrio 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What a strangely sequenced set list.

    • @HippoYnYGlaw
      @HippoYnYGlaw ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Ryanbrioswap them around.? interesting but ultimately fruitless as they're all things of Great fragile beauty. Heatwave would sound better with a delicate fade out. Tomorrow I will be there. All you wait and see. Can't go on and I can't go back.

  • @funkp0wer
    @funkp0wer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Shear brilliance! Nothing comes close to these guys live. Please please please come back one more time The Blue Nile! ✌🏾

  • @MrZodiac666
    @MrZodiac666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    One of our greatest bands without any doubt 😍

  • @megdog08
    @megdog08 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This should be released as a live album…sound is crazy good fantastic❤️

  • @robertfearn5293
    @robertfearn5293 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I was there that night. A truly astonishing performance by my favourite band ever. A genuinely life changing experience.

  • @ginosatti2172
    @ginosatti2172 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Headphones on, Feb 2021, and I am transported right back to the Glasgow Gig, “ you had me at Tinseltown “ ........sobbing again

  • @silverfoils
    @silverfoils 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    At the end of this gig my mate 'borrowed' Paul's bottle of water he'd left at the edge of the stage and he kept it under his bed for years. It grew some weird stuff inside that I imagine we could have cloned him from.

  • @Yanto-Bardic
    @Yanto-Bardic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    My God WHAT A VOICE!!! Paul Buchanan is the Sinatra of our times.

  • @rigneycomposer
    @rigneycomposer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Music this good can only happen when heart and mind work together

  • @zeto1636
    @zeto1636 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Reading the song titles in this setlist is like reading my favorites plats in a restaurant menu. My brain starts screaming happiness a second before i press play. 🙂
    To the guy who did this upload: i raise my glass to you, sir! 🍷
    Love from north Portugal

  • @WallyBrando
    @WallyBrando 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    How the fuck do they sound so good live, this is ridiculous, every sound is exactly as perfect as the records

  • @dermotsmyth2166
    @dermotsmyth2166 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’m sitting here in the sun with my favourite person in the world beside me Lydia listening to the blue Nile fair trade gig and Glastonbury over the hillside and I’m remembering my mam and dad and there last years and moments but I’m calm in my soul love is all the blue Nile

  • @user-wx9ky9lr1y
    @user-wx9ky9lr1y 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This is the only official live recording on YT and its glorious! One my all time favourite groups -such a special group!! Great show and priceless recording now!

  • @Gekko0325
    @Gekko0325 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    “Stay……and I will UNDERSTAND YOU” is one of the greatest lyrics ever written !!!! Stay starts at 24:00

  • @brendanmelvin9438
    @brendanmelvin9438 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Just listened to this for the first time in years.. thank you for sharing
    That beautiful Paul Buchanan voice, mesmerising music and words..
    Magical ♥️

  • @MultiMcginty
    @MultiMcginty 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Was fortunate enough to see them live 3 times and they were always received rapturously. You'd have this intense soulful melancholic music then Paul Buchanan being self deprecating and frequently very funny in-between the songs. It just made me love them even more.

  • @AnselmG1970
    @AnselmG1970 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I was at the Dublin show and although it’s 30 years ago and I’ve been to many gigs since, it’s the best one I’ve been to, hope you don’t me sharing my (long) gig review here.
    Wasn’t that familiar with them beforehand, my only real knowledge was from a review of A Walk Across The Rooftops in an archive copy of Hi-Fi News And Record Review magazine at the local library in the mid 80s. The reviewer raved about it and although his words stuck in my mind, I never bought the album.
    Fast forward to September 1990 and posters went up around Eden Quay advertising their gig at The Gaiety Theatre. I’d no idea they were on tour or that it was a rare event, or even that they had recorded a second album. Up-and-coming Irish singer Brian Kennedy was billed the support act and so I got a ticket just to see him, such a late decision that I only managed to get a seat high in the Dress Circle.
    Arriving at the gig, a poster in the reception said that both Brian Kennedy and Shawn Colvin were scheduled to appear as support. However, Colvin cancelled on the night and was replaced by Breton singer Katell Keineg.
    The Blue Nile’s entrance was something I will always remember. Various bandmembers shuffled out into the dim light to a three-minute standing ovation from the audience, something I’ve not seen before or since at a gig. So I thought there was something special here. The band looked at each other, as if to say “All this, just for us?” They seemed a bit embarrassed. What I came to realise is they’d gathered an underground following that waited for years to hear them actually play live. Without seeing their videos on TV or much coverage in magazines etc I think it might have been the first time many of the audience had seen the band members at all.
    Setlist ran Rooftops/Tinseltown/Over The Hillside/Downtown Lights, I think. The atmosphere was amazing - the audience was deafening between songs, but sat in absolute silence during them, as if they were mesmerised. Surreal.
    A woman in the stalls shouted “Are you gonna play Easter Parade?” to which Paul smiled and said “Yes!”. Another voice shouted “You’re the best thing to come out of Scotland since The Bay City Rollers”. Paul lifted up his trouser leg and replied “We WERE The Bay City Rollers!” Someone else noticed the similarity between Paul and guest guitarist Jon Herington (later of Steely Dan) and asked “Is that your brother?”, to which Paul replied with a surprised “No!”.
    The show ended, Paul announced to the audience “We’ve run out of songs we know” so I think they played Tinseltown again for an encore.
    What a night.

    • @peterredmond6291
      @peterredmond6291 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Brilliant review!

    • @JimChimney
      @JimChimney 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I was at that gig in the Gaiety, At 18. I may of been one of the youngest there, Got a couple of nice photos from the night. The Nile we're on top form. I'll always remember the woman beside me in floods of tears as Paul sang. Many years later Paul played the Electric Picnic and we got chatting, a friend of mine told him that I was soon to be married and that we had chosen their song Saturday Night as the song for the first song. He offered to play it ad the wedding. I was floored, never before have I encountered such warmth and kindness. I explained we were getting married far from Ireland. He chuckled and said "You're on your own so!". When they played Vicar Street a while later, they dedicated the Saturday Night to us. A lovely man Mr Buchanan.

  • @tomsiebert1941
    @tomsiebert1941 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Just found this. Thank you so much. The band is impeccable, Buchanan's vocals are at their peak. Amazing set, a gold mine across time.

  • @peterredmond6291
    @peterredmond6291 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Listening to this masterpiece yet again!

  • @onealspence8548
    @onealspence8548 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Absolutely blown away I'm honestly am chuffed to hear this godbless everyone. Xxx

  • @Wwhite111
    @Wwhite111 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Huge regret that I never seen these guys live, this is fantastic. Albums are masterpieces.

  • @saintannes1
    @saintannes1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Youre a man after my own heart...I too had a cassette recording of this gig, which I was actually at...and lost it. I will forever remember two things from the gig ...first the shock when they played the opening song, because of just how incredible they sounded..beyond anyones wildest dreams.. there was an audible gasp around me. And secondly...the end of the gig, when grow men were openly weeping with joy at what we had all just experienced ... the best live perormance ive ever witnessed in 40 years of going to gigs. Listen to the ovation at the end of Tinseltown...it just went on..and on... and on.The only way the band could get the audience to stop applauding and cheering was to start the next song in the set.

    • @Anderzander
      @Anderzander 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I was there too !!
      Do you remember how nervous they were at the start? And someone shouted ‘it’s alright we love you’ and then they played the best set I’ve ever heard. I’ve never been anywhere where there was that much love. What a magical experience it was.

    • @Jonni1027
      @Jonni1027 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      WOW! What an experience!

    • @davidfielding7746
      @davidfielding7746 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      One of the best gigs I've ever witnessed. Truley magical. I think their shock reaction added to the whole night. Great venue too. The home of the Halle Orchestra. I believe the sex pistols first gig was the lesser free trade hall which was a small venue in the basement. Playing there was one of the highlights of my musical career. Lovd to all. Dave Fielding and Ooshka. Xx

    • @davidfielding7746
      @davidfielding7746 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      One of the best gigs I've ever witnessed. Truley magical. I think their shock reaction added to the whole night. Great venue too. The home of the Halle Orchestra. I believe the sex pistols first gig was the lesser free trade hall which was a small venue in the basement. Playing there was one of the highlights of my musical career. Lovd to all. Dave Fielding and Ooshka. Xx

    • @saintannes1
      @saintannes1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Anderzander I remember that yes !! Someone shouted ' dont be nervous' !! And buchanan looked up and said ' dont be nervous ??? Youre joking arent you ?? Weve got state registered nurses waiting in the wings !!' Cue laughter and cheering and from then on it was like kids playing to proud parents at a school concert...the will for them to succeed and play well was so tangible you could touch it. Not that w needed to worry....we witnessed actual genius that night

  • @dermotsmyth2166
    @dermotsmyth2166 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Everytime I feel emotion and I’m thinking to much I listen to the blue Nile , each word sang hits a feeling in me I honestly listen to this band honestly maybe every third day …never ever tiring of the sentiment in music and voice magnificent I will want one of there songs played at my final day

  • @ms8742
    @ms8742 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Wow, really good quality. You can tell how awesome this concert was.

  • @Dax893
    @Dax893 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This live show sounds just as good as their studio material, which is to say it sounds really good. I wish they had more recognition, or any recognition at all in North America.

  • @charlesbull6188
    @charlesbull6188 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Saw them at the Colston Hall they were amazing best concert ever

  • @GIXXERUKX
    @GIXXERUKX 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was there, seen them live twice... superb 😎
    Paul’s vocals are perfect live, genuine and humble

  • @Blow_My_Bagpipe
    @Blow_My_Bagpipe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Cant believe this is live, what a voice

  • @solclarke8405
    @solclarke8405 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was there. saw them a few times. One of the best groups. I wish they would get back together like The The for at the least a TV gig.

  • @joelcoat6020
    @joelcoat6020 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Was a babe of 18 when I went to see this concert and the emotional hit stands as one of the highlights of my life. Still have a cassette recording of the BBC's show but not played in many, many years - thank you for the upload.

  • @terrydear4038
    @terrydear4038 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for the download. The music played live combined with the anecdotes of the concert and the crowd reaction make this very special.

  • @johnmurphy3729
    @johnmurphy3729 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was privileged to see the homecoming Glasgow gig on this tour. Similar to the astonishing reception at other venues set out in the comments here, but perhaps magnified by it being their home city, they walked out to a standing ovation which seemed to last forever. Paul, humble as ever, spoke into the mic and said something along the lines of, "What if we're rubbish?" An incredible night ensued and this recording brings it all back.
    The only time I've been more emotional at a gig was one of their later tours when they performed the sublime 'Family Life'.

  • @margaretbrennan9534
    @margaretbrennan9534 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So enjoyed this trip down memory lane to my 20 something self! Superb quality recording!❤
    Wonderful comments mostly echoing my own thoughts ... back to life now ...
    or just hit replay...x

  • @aidangriffin8183
    @aidangriffin8183 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is absolutely breathtaking - thank you

  • @Atom-56
    @Atom-56 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fantastic upload, Thanks for this, sounds amazing.

  • @54CFL
    @54CFL 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What a live sound! Thanks for the upload

  • @grotonbridgefilms7428
    @grotonbridgefilms7428 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I saw them on this tour in the US. Also have a tape, same set list! What a show.

  • @peterredmond6291
    @peterredmond6291 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The best group ever. This is a superb recording. Supposed to be a box set being released next year. Will be amazing. Also a new Paul Buchanan album. Something to look forward to

  • @nenoeno1991
    @nenoeno1991 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    incredible....

  • @brianreid8951
    @brianreid8951 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    what a gift

  • @peterwaters8338
    @peterwaters8338 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    " close ur eyes, can't u see" is great line

  • @cb7963
    @cb7963 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Phil,
    Thank you. I saw The Blue Nile twice in the nineties, once in Boston and once in Amsterdam. Listening to this is like being there again. Fantastic.

  • @robertomassoni7359
    @robertomassoni7359 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    What can i say? Its too emotional, i dont understand good the lenguaje but with this kind to use the voice mixing with chords that the pop dont use never more i dont need to know english. With this music i cant find where is the soul in the body. Thanks for this upload, make me so happy-sad today

  • @ceefaxballard4961
    @ceefaxballard4961 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Thanks Phil. I love this band. I was born in 1979 so missed The Blue Nile when they first came out. My eldest brother was a big fan and had their first record 'A Walk Across the Rooftops'. I remember him playing 'Heatwave' back in the 1980's. I was just a little boy but its feel, sound and passion made a deep impression on me. As I got older I searched out records by The Blue Nile having that memory of 'Heatwave'. By that point I was a big fan of Peter Gabriel, it must be the mid 1990s' by then. After hearing The Blue Nile my first thought was that they must be fans themselves as there is a distinct similarity in the sound production, musical style and vocals. To my ignorance, I heard Gabriel in an interview saying how much he loved this band and that he bought hundreds of copiers that he would give out to friends, family and fellow musicians. He stated that The Blue Niles 'Walk Across The Rooftops' would go on to influence his next album 'So' which was the biggest selling album of the 1980's in Europe and the US. Thank you so much for this upload :-)

    • @philhonley
      @philhonley  6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I really appreciate the positive comment. I now know that I am satisfying many by going public with all of those cassette recordings I have hidden away....thanks

    • @ceefaxballard4961
      @ceefaxballard4961 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you Phil. The sound quality is brilliant as is the graphics. I happened to be a massive John Martyn fan so I am going to get straight to it. Again, thanks so much.

  • @angeljack7743
    @angeljack7743 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Had this on cassette tape, light years ago. Thank you so much for remembering me!!!

  • @nickhilesable
    @nickhilesable ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was there. I remember not liking the mix but the performance was incredible. This recording is sublime.

  • @jeffblack5024
    @jeffblack5024 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was there that night. There's a bit that was edited out. They're tuning their guitars. Some wag shouts out 'EADGBE'. Another says "take your time", followed by "You did over your last album" (the five year gap between albums was considered excessive at the time).
    It wasn't in any way critical. The audience was enraptured by what they were hearing. It was a magical gig and Manchester took the band from the other rainy city to their hearts.

  • @markhay6680
    @markhay6680 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was an ardent fan.. I have two gigs I regret profoundly at missing - This one and Talking Heads at Ingilston

  • @douglasgray6783
    @douglasgray6783 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is just magnificent.

  • @snacklofter
    @snacklofter 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    A Walk Across the Rooftops
    Tinseltown in the Rain
    Heatwave
    Over the Hillside
    Stay
    Easter Parade
    The Downtown Lights
    Saturday Night
    Headlights on the Parade
    Seven A.M.
    Let's Go Out Tonight

  • @nickyb1027
    @nickyb1027 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Pity this can't be sent to the band and hopefully they would think of reforming and touring. There still yrs ahead of present day music

    • @ericlindsey3069
      @ericlindsey3069 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      True genius those individuals and how they collaborated and melded. Almost like you cannot plan that.

    • @dmgsoultogetherness6667
      @dmgsoultogetherness6667 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ive passed it on

    • @alxwlsh
      @alxwlsh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dmgsoultogetherness6667 I've got the email of Nigel Thomas, their drummer from his sister Heather if you want to send him an email

  • @berniemckenna3487
    @berniemckenna3487 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    pure class Phil! So many memories. Cheers.

  • @zoraz4867
    @zoraz4867 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Ive just read your little bit above - thank you for sharing this!!! I used to love recording onto cassette too back then but nothing as great as you had :) :) Thank you!!

  • @WonderrDogg
    @WonderrDogg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Spectacular!

  • @AnselmG1970
    @AnselmG1970 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The band that night: Paul Buchanan (guitar, vocals), PJ Moore (keyboards), Robert Bell (bass, keyboards), Nigel Thomas (drums), Jon Herington (guitar)

  • @davemilnes1147
    @davemilnes1147 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was at this concert....the sound was like no other gig I have ever known, like being sat in front of a very good hi-fi. And yes, they ran out of things to play so they played 'Tinseltown' again. A hugely special experience.

    • @GIXXERUKX
      @GIXXERUKX 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I remember pb being so nervous between songs, the atmosphere was church like .. superb 😎

    • @davemilnes1147
      @davemilnes1147 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@GIXXERUKX Yes! I also remember the women in our party (3 of them) totally swooning at his voice...

    • @louisrichards3160
      @louisrichards3160 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Saw them in western Massachusetts USA and they did the same thing, played Tinseltown twice! Unbelievable 🙏❤️

  • @cmp401
    @cmp401 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I saw them in SF and left the place with a big smile 😃
    My car was stolen after the concert, so I got a big punch 🥊 but still I remember more about Blue Nile and their amazing concert! 😊

  • @davidfielding7746
    @davidfielding7746 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I saw David Bowie in 1973 with Reg. 25 shillings ( 1 pound 25 )... we played ther in 1984 with the Chameleons. I was at this gig. What a great band. Underground but fabulous and unique! David Fielding and Ooshka.xx

    • @rozkwan2557
      @rozkwan2557 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just had to like the comment because I love the Chameleons! Didn't know you guys liked the Blue Nile's music as well. Both bands music have been on my repeat playlist for a while. I'm digging this BBC broadcast though.

    • @davidfielding7746
      @davidfielding7746 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you. Yeah we made some great music. We all have different musical tastes though. I have just played lead guitar on the 8th Black Swan Lane album. They are based in Atlanta. An album of genius. The man being Jack Sobel. All the tracks are on youtube. The album is called Vita Eterna. Italian for eternal life. Best wishes. Dave Fielding and Ooshka.xx

    • @davidfielding7746
      @davidfielding7746 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What a great recording of the blue Nile gig as well. Yeah. I remembered it like it was yesterday. Check out Black Swan Lane. Best thing I've done in ages. Love to all. Dave Fielding and Ooshka.xx

    • @rozkwan2557
      @rozkwan2557 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@davidfielding7746 before I forget, I want to thank you guys for making great music that I could relate to. Although I found out about The Chameleons in 2000, it was music that saved me from suicide so many times. I'm glad to have ran into you on this thread. Thanks again!

    • @danielgillibrand6679
      @danielgillibrand6679 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fab this dave play it loads

  • @paulmca9731
    @paulmca9731 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Saw them the one and only time when they did this tour at Cambridge Corn Exchange 19/09/1990. Couldn’t believe how emotional I was. Fantastic.

  • @acousticshadow4032
    @acousticshadow4032 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for this great post, Phil H

  • @davidedge6512
    @davidedge6512 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was championing this band in the 1980s to all that would listen, and unknown to me a friend of mine secretly wrote to them and told them this. I then unexpectedly received two postcards from them, which I still treasure. Thank you, The Blue Nile, for being there through the hardest times I was going through back then. Thank you.
    (And the songs still make me cry tears of sadness and happiness at the same time.)😅

  • @FrenchKettleStation
    @FrenchKettleStation 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Absolutely psycho that this is live. Sounds so close to the records. Astonishing music and performance.

    • @gerardodoherty9178
      @gerardodoherty9178 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Close, but somehow better IMHO.

    • @jeffblack5024
      @jeffblack5024 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It sounded fucking amazing through a PA.

    • @FrenchKettleStation
      @FrenchKettleStation หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jeffblack5024 You were there?!?!

    • @jeffblack5024
      @jeffblack5024 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@FrenchKettleStation yes, I was.

    • @FrenchKettleStation
      @FrenchKettleStation หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jeffblack5024 Lucky!! I wasn’t even alive when this happened, would give just about anything to see them play, unbelievable that a group can sound this good!!

  • @FabioTharwat
    @FabioTharwat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    i love you, thanks for the upload

  • @AnthonyLee-Poet
    @AnthonyLee-Poet ปีที่แล้ว

    For Me Paul Buchanan is the modern Frank Sinatra... What a Voice! Followed Blue Nile since the release of their debut album "A Walk Across The Rooftops" (0n Vinyl) 1984. LINN The Audio Specialists used to use the Album as a Reference when listening to their Top Of The Range Hi-Fidelity Equipment. Blue Nile Light Years ahead of their time!. Love Their Music.❤

  • @angelouh_
    @angelouh_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good, very good!

  • @andynpoet
    @andynpoet ปีที่แล้ว

    I was at
    that concert. I know they played Tinseltown again and also let's go out tonight after these nine songs. What a shame neither of those recordings have surfaced, Love to relive them alongside this frankly amazing concert

  • @paulmca9731
    @paulmca9731 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

  • @fsr5046
    @fsr5046 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love this

  • @fgarciarizo
    @fgarciarizo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the coldplay of the 80s and 90s

  • @Dr.Cunt-.
    @Dr.Cunt-. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How the hell have I only just discovered this band?

    • @scientifico
      @scientifico 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Good for you! Imagine if you hadn't!

    • @davidcopson5800
      @davidcopson5800 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You're only 12 years old?

  • @BookimCrocker
    @BookimCrocker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What a band
    Imagine for a second, Blue Nile on Britain's Got Talent....Simon Cowell & Amanda Holden !!??????

    • @davidcopson5800
      @davidcopson5800 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      These guys are too good for Simon Cowell.

    • @BookimCrocker
      @BookimCrocker 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@davidcopson5800 Jedward are too good for Simon Cowell.

    • @davidcopson5800
      @davidcopson5800 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@BookimCrocker True. In fact The Legendary Stardust Cowboy is too good for Simon Cowell.

    • @BookimCrocker
      @BookimCrocker 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@davidcopson5800 Had to google. Too young ;O)

    • @davidcopson5800
      @davidcopson5800 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@BookimCrocker Can you imagine Simon Cowell listening to the 'Ledge' singing 'Paralysed'? I envy you being so young.

  • @nzyt1
    @nzyt1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Beautiful. Please can someone comment the set list? I have just started listening to them.

    • @ScottishMTV
      @ScottishMTV 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A Walk Across The Rooftops
      Tinseltown in the Rain
      Heatwave
      Over the Hillside
      Stay
      Easter Parade
      Downtown Lights
      Saturday Night
      Headlights on the Parade

  • @jeffblack5024
    @jeffblack5024 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I actually sampled a BBC 6 Music repeat of this legendary gig into my music computer and put it on CD for myself. Let me know and I'll do you a copy. No profit motive.

    • @philhonley
      @philhonley  หลายเดือนก่อน

      I appreciate the offer Jeff but I longer have a CD player as I only purchase vinyl these days.

    • @ianwright4324
      @ianwright4324 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Last Night From Glasgow - the not for profit music label - would put this out in a heartbeat if they got the right permissions . It deserves a much wider audience

  • @ruudvandiermen8747
    @ruudvandiermen8747 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    But sti i thank you for this ,no hard feelings Ruud from the Netherlands 😅

    • @philhonley
      @philhonley  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You made a fair comment Ruud, take care and enjoy.

  • @ruudvandiermen8747
    @ruudvandiermen8747 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why all there adds in such beautifull music,it ruins this session,for some money ,its a shame ,with all respect sir,Ruud from the Netherlands 😢

    • @philhonley
      @philhonley  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That, unfortunately, is the downside of TH-cam.

  • @snaresparkles
    @snaresparkles 10 หลายเดือนก่อน