Jeff Buckley – City Varieties

here is the info file from Dime

JEFF BUCKLEY

City Varieties, Leeds, England

June 21st 1995

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Jeff Buckley – 21st June 1995 – City Varieties, Leeds, England

Date and venue confirmed through “All Flowers In Time” website http://flowersintime.org/show.php?gigid=305

As far as I am aware the complete concert is uncirculated (some individual tracks were posted to youTube).

All the information about the recording are contained in this message from the taper.

“Hi Emily,

I recorded the whole show on a borrowed Sony Professional Walkman but unfortunately I`d set the recording levels a bit high to begin with so some of the earlier tracks break up. Most of it is ok though. The mic was strapped to my wrist with the lead passing up my sleeve to the recorder which was hanging under my left arm, under a sweater. As you can imagine I couldn’t do any clapping. It was recorded on a C90 cassette which I still have. The only bit of recording from the Jeff gig I didn’t send you is when we catch up with [Jeff] after the show and he signed my ticket. I had the tape running while we hunted for a pen! In the end he found his fountain pen and we got his autograph. A special moment for me.

C”

Unfortunately I don’t have that last little bit.

I don’t know the process involved in getting the C90 recording to CD, but some of the songs are split across several tracks (Hallelujah/I Know It’s Over are spread over some dozen tracks!) and a few songs are combined on one track – I’m not competent enough to correct – the files are encoded to flac directly from the CD’s as I received via international snail mail.

Disc 1 has 9 tracks, six songs; Disc 2 has 34 tracks, six songs – many tracks are snippets of Buckley talking and/or audience.

I’ve included a rough transcript of the gig as a guide to the tracking.

It’s not perfect, but it is superb, imho.

I’ve scanned the gatefold art that came with the discs; not well printed on an ink jet, not easily readable, although actually a nice simple design.

FC:

Jeff Buckley

Leeds ’95.

BC:

CD 1

The Way Young Lovers do

Dream Brother

Lover You Should’ve Come Over

So Real

Eternal Life

Mojo Pin

46mins 32secs

CD2

Kick Out The James

Grace

Lilac Wine

Last Goodbye

What Will You Say

Hallelujah

46mins 13secs

Jeff Buckley – Vocals, Guitar

Michael Tighe – Guitar

Mick Grondahl – Bass

Matt Johnson – Drums

Enjoy.

x

Em

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Lineage: Sony Walkman > Unknown Mic > C90 Cassette(M) > CD

Additional lineage: Orig Flac Files > Wav > AudioJoiner > CDWave > AudioJoiner > CDWave > Flac Frontend > Flac

Tracklist

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Disc 1

01. intro

02. The Way Young Lovers Do [V.Morrison]

03. band intro

04. Dream Brother

05. Lover, You Should’ve Come Over

06. So Real

07. Eternal Life

08. Mojo Pin

Disc 2

01. chat

02. Kick Out The Jams [MC5]

03. Grace

04. Lilac Wine

05. Last Goodbye

06. What Will You Say

07. chat

08. Hallelujah / I Know It’s Over

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Total Time : 1.30.52

NOTES :

It would appear that the original fileset at some point in it’s transfer to CD had been done so with some kind of ‘track-at-once’ option selected which inserted no less than thirty-three 2 second gaps in various quieter moments during the recording dissecting most songs into multiple segments…..

To fix this, i decoded the original flacs to wav, rejoined all the files, edited out the silences with CDWave, rejoined & then tracked accordingly……

All thanks to taper ‘C’ & emilycurious

ANB

Transcript:

Jeff Buckley – 21st June 1995 – City Varieties, Leeds, England

–Disc 1–

Track 01   0:28
Buckley: Are they actually playing Def Leppard?
Audience: Yeah, you chose it.
Buckley: There’s something very wrong, I don’t know where the bass player is. [Good old?], Mickey.
Audience: On the bass.
Buckley: Yeah I hope so. It’s understandable I guess. Probably asleep.
Audience: […]

Track 02   10:52
Audience: Wake the bastard up.
Buckely: If I knew where he was I would. But I don’t.
Audience: […]
Buckley: What these things, these legs?
Audience: Those are beautiful.
Buckley: Okay, whatever. So I don’t know what I’m going to do here.

0:30 The Way Young Lovers Do 9:38

Buckley: Maybe he’s here now.
Thank you. I just can’t whip out the jazz like I used to.
Let me introduce to you Mick Grondahl on the bass, Matt Johnson on the drums, Micahel Tighe on the guitar.
Right.

Track 03   0:28
Buckley: [That] really blew it
Audience: Jesus Jeff […]
Buckley: [This is a special for you?] Randy Biro [?] the crankiest man in show business ladies and gentlemen.

Track 04   16:58

0:00 Dream Brother 8:07

8:27 Lover, You Should’ve Come Over 16:20

Audience […] Lets rock […]
Buckley: Lets rock
Audience: […] AC/DC […]

Track 05   0:08
Buckley: [Insurance?] reference, that’s very… brainy.

Track 06   5:09
Buckley: Red light cameras?
You know how to deal with it just close your eyes.
You don’t have to deal with the world at all, just close your eyes.
Audience: […]
Buckley: It’s like I’m in highschool.

0:20 So Real 5:02

Track 07   0:20 [ / ]
Track 08   0:18 [ / ]
Track 09   0:06 [ / ]
Track 10   0:06 [ / ]

Track 11   11:38

0:00 Eternal Life 5:18

5:36 Mojo Pin 11:28
–Disc 2–

Track 01   0:19
Buckley: Can you imagine, […] here’s us and like right where that guy in the in the white shirts starts […] (Audience laughs)

Track 02   0:07
Buckley: (Whispers) […] white t-shirt […]

Track 03   0:09
Buckley: I’m not PJ Harvey, I’m Jeff, we’ve got the same [life?]… It’s gonna be…

Track 04   0:10
Buckley: …quite a weird thing.

Track 05   0:10
Audience noise

Track 06   10:58
Buckley: Any requests?
Audience: Hallelujah, Kick out the Jam Motherfuckers
Buckley: (Sings) Kick out the jam motherfuckers.

0:36 Kick Out The Jams 3:37

3:55 Grace 9:17

9:25 Lilac Wine (mostly accappela intro…) 10:55…

Track 07   2:49
…0:00 Lilac Wine (band)

Track 08   0:10
…Lilac Wine…

Track 09   0:17
…Lilac Wine…

Track 10   1:20
Lilac Wine 0:55

Track 11   0:29
(Audience)

Track 12   12:49

0:00 Last Goodbye 4:41

4:49 What will you say 12:15

Buckley: We have an eleven o’clock curfew, I’m gonna do something here.
Audience: [do] one of your Dad songs…

Track 13   0:17
Buckley: Back in the 60’s. [You know?] they’re all [dead?] baby. Hey no offence but do you say that just to get my goat or what?

Track 14   0:18
Buckley: It’s just a drag you know?
Audience: […]
Audience: Yer great Jeff we love you.
Buckley: I love you too

Track 15   0:12
Buckley: Oh god I can’t wait till I come out with another album – I’m really sorry
Audience […(question)…]

Track 16   0:21
Buckley: What like at Glastonbury?
Audience: […]
Buckley: [Oh like] at Leeds? What’s a better place to play?
He’s not rocking, thats cos he’s in the expensive seats.
Audience: […]

Track 17   0:22
Buckley: So this is a very collaborative atmosphere here in Leeds.
Audience: [don’t fuck anything up?]
Buckley: Yeah but if I don’t put out there’s no show.

Track 18   0:07
Audience: Hallelujah

Track 19   0:23 [ / ]

Track 20   0:09 [ / ]

Track 21   5:02

0:00 Hallelujah intro
0:30 Buckley: This is for everyone

0:30 Hallelujah…

Track 22   0:07
Hallelujah…

Track 23   0:31

0:00 I Know It’s Over… [laughter sounds familiar!!]

Track 24   0:57
…I Know It’s Over…

Track 25   0:31
…I Know It’s Over…

Track 26   0:15
…I Know It’s Over…

Track 27   3:06
…I Know It’s Over…
2:46 Hallelujah

Track 28   1:01
…Hallelujah…

Track 29   0:08
…Hallelujah…

Track 30   0:10
…Hallelujah…

Track 31   0:27
…Hallelujah…

Track 32   0:09
…Hallelujah…

Track 33   0:07
…Hallelujah…

Track 34   1:00
Buckley: Thank you very much.
Goodnight… and sweet dreams.
Thank you.
Thank you. Good luck [Leeds?]
And I love you too.
Fades at 0:50.