Embarrassingly, my friend Craig tells me we attended the Manchester Poly concert, but I honestly have no clear recollection of it. I was doing my degree in Manchester at the time, and the University and Poly student unions and the Factory/Russell club had endless streams of bands most nights. It was a great time for live music, but sometimes too many pints of cheap and rubbish lager in plastic pint glasses left me with vague memories. Unlike the bigger venues, where you could keep the ticket stub, the smaller venues just had simpler one-piece tickets that you had to handover on entry. The ticket stubs are one way for me to remember those performances. Luckily, I have better, sober, and multiple memories of Bill at the Clothworker's.

I hope you get your wish but, if I may dampen the mood, I suspect most of the potential customers already have the boxed sets and would be unlikely to re-purchase a DVD collection of the same material, and most of the material does not suggest sufficient source quality to justify an upgrade to hi-def/hi-res Blu-Ray.

This a copy/paste of a comment Stephen W Tayler left on the Steve Hoffman Music Forums. I cannot link to the original, so this is off a copy I keep with my boxed set rip. I have changed the font colour where SWT says he sourced the recordings from different performances to your selection. The original album used the following tracks: Life In The Air Age - Leeds 1 - 13th February Ships In The Night - Leeds 1 - 13th February Piece Of Mine - Bristol - 27th March Fair Exchange - Leeds 1 - 13th February Shine - Leeds 1 - 13th February Sister Seagull - Leeds 2 - 14th February Maid In Heaven - Hammersmith 2 - 26th March Mill Street Junction - Hammersmith 1 - 25th March Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape - Leeds 2 - 14th February Blazing Apostles - Hammersmith 2 - 26th March None of the tracks from Leicester or Bournemouth shows were used. As you can see the original release was compiled from several different shows, and some very small parts repaired or replaced - usually for technical issues. It was a very special and particular production approach and so in this case I decided not to be influenced by those mixes. This set of full shows is not a remix as such, but a brand new mix, trying to recreate the feeling of being there in the theatre, leaving in all the audience response, introductions and talk between the tracks. It might have been nice to have a surround version, but decisions had to be made about what would be realistic and practical in terms of how much material we had. Imagine how many discs there would have been! These are carefully and lovingly mixed, and experiencing these wonderful dynamic live performances was so exciting for me. Yes it is aimed at true enthusiasts and everyone will probably have a favourite! SWTx Stephen W Tayler

I bought the Kindle version of 'The Light Pours Out Of Me', and I'm early in the book, just as Magazine are getting going. Magazine were one of my favourite bands back in the late 70's and I saw them several times with and without John McGeoch. They remain one my two favourite live bands. The music scene in late 70's Manchester was an influence on where I took my degree, even though LSE/UCL beckoned. I like a broad range of music, however the impact of first hearing Magazine's 'Shot By Both Sides' and The Fall's 'Totally Wired' still resonates with me today.

@Jon I will be patient. I have limited storage room to carry on collecting discs, so will defer to official downloads where I can. It's not if we are short of a back catalogue to rediscover!

I'll be taking the Bandcamp download when that is released.

Available at Cherry Red Records: https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/be-bop-deluxe-drastic-plastic-4cd-2dvd-deluxe-box-set/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7-Paxdj08gIVD7btCh0n3Qs1EAQYASABEgLvU_D_BwE

@steve lyles https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/be-bop-deluxe-live-in-the-air-age-15cd-1dvd-and-3cd-editions.1088583/page-8 Go to post 194 on page 8 This link is to a comment from the man who mixed the shows.

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/be-bop-deluxe/1976/civic-hall-wolverhampton-england-43cf7b27.html

@Jon Hi Jon, thanks for the download options, however I use Bandcamp because they offer Lossless download options, including hi-res. As far as I know iTunes/Apple are lossy, as are the Amazon options. I am not in the market for lossy downloads, especially if the original has been presented in hi-res, like the BBD boxed sets.

I buy music off Bandcamp several times a month, and it's always my first port of call for any band that I want to hear more of. The only discs I've bought during the last year was the recent Focus boxed set, because it was not likely to be available as a download. I do not have the storage space for big boxed sets, which means I've missed out on the BBD boxed sets after 'SF'. I'm not an artwork/packaging junkie, so I only need the best quality music files. It would be nice if Esoteric/CherryRed would consider download purchases too. Anyway, here's to the next few Bandcamp Fridays, and Bill's continuing releases.

I've seen JCC many times, at concerts in Manchester and several times supporting The Fall. I wish my brain could keep up with his fast-talking wit.

@Jon Thanks. Bought today. Great album.

Got my copy off Bandcamp, however I would welcome making 'Illuminated At Dusk' available too for download. I missed the CD release and only have an MP3 copy, so it would be good to put some money where it belongs.

That's a very different front sleeve to my original release.