Uriah Heep FM Radio Broadcast from the
Glasgow Apollo on the Equator Tour.
Not sure if it's a full show but it's
definitely longer than previous versions.
Excellent sounding lively performance as these
Radio shows usually are at the Glasgow Apollo.
I was at this show & still have an arm from one of the chairs around here someplace as a souvenier of that night & the Apollo. This was the 2nd last show to be held there & the final Rock concert (with the Style Council due to bring the curtain down the following week) so the place got completely dismantled over the course of the evening by memento hunters. I saw toilet doors, whole rows of seats & even the hand drier from the toilet all carried off at the end of the night. I've no idea how they were able to put the Style Council show on as the venue was utterly destroyed, but they apparently managed it somehow.
ReplyDeleteHeep were on the upswing at the time after a while in the doldrums and played great. I recall Mick Box's solo spot being a particular highlight & July Morning being very moving as David Byron had only recently passed away.
Thanks for this longer version of the show which was recorded & broadcast a few weeks after the event by Radio Clyde. I don't think it's quite the entire show, but it's probably the longest version that was ever transmitted.
Although they recorded full gigs they usually only broadcast truncated versions, edited to fit into an hour long slot in the middle of their weekly Rock Show which was hosted for years by Tam 'Stay Awake' Russell from midnight to 3am. The show was sneakily scheduled to start right after BBC Radio 1's 'Friday Rock Show' concluded, so the Scottish BBC audience would migrate en masse over to Radio Clyde as soon as the BBC show finished. Halcyon days.
We got to enjoy six uninterrupted hours of hard rock/metal on a weekly basis back then whereas nowadays you'd be hard pressed to find a single 'eavy track broadcast anywhere on terrestrial UK radio over the course of an entire week. We had no idea how good we had it.
Thanks great story and your right we didn't know at the time how great and easy it was to get concert tickets and hear music on the radio we liked great times I did see heap on this tour in Eastbourne
DeleteIn front of a round 300 people but I still put on a really good show I've got tickets to see them one last time in Bexhill February 2025 on the farewell tour thanks again for the comments
That's cool youre going to go & see them again 40 years after that Eastbourne gig. They ought to be really good by now after a further 4 decades of practice. : ) : ) : )
DeleteAccording to Glasgowapollo.com the complete Heep setlist for that night was:
ReplyDelete1 Sell Your Soul
2 Stealin'
3 The Other Side Of Midnight
4 Too Scared To Run
5 Rockarama
6 Angel
7 The Wizard
8 July Morning
9 Bad Blood
10 Party Time
11 Mick solo
12 Gypsy
13 Easy Livin
14 That's The Way That It Is
15 Lee solo
16 Look At Yourself
Thanks for this upgraded version ! Nice additional comments by anonymous.
ReplyDeleteGreetings from winter times in Paris,
Also a big 'Thank You' for this from me. This is the longest version of the Radio Clyde recording I've heard, but there are at least two other (much shorter) versions around with different track listings, but which include Stealin' as the second number. I assume the show was broadcast two or three times in different forms, much as Tommy Vance and his producer Tony Wilson used to do with some of the BBC recordings on the Friday Rock Show. I'll see if I can stitch this together with the other recordings over there holidays to see what may become of it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments it looks like made a mistake on the back cover as stealing is track 2 in the download
DeleteCheers steve
Hi Steve, This recording is a bit of a lash-up, (I've sent you a genuine recording to the Barn Email which combines what I believe to be two broadcasts with overlapping, but slightly different, song selections).
DeleteMost of the recording is from Glasgow 1985, however quite a lot is from the 1982 Budapest radio broadcast when Bob Daisley was in the band.
The Budapest tracks are: Sell You Soul, Stealin', Gypsy, and Look At Yourself.
Greetings from a Glaswegian in London
Thanks for the info its not always easy to tell when you find these file if it's all as it says it is
Deletecheers Steve
PS I'd be surprised if 'Rockarama' was ever transmitted, saw Heep at Hammersmith Odeon on this tour and that number was a downer even then!
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