The Cure - Getting Old (STU/FLAC)

(Studio FLAC)

Label: not on label
Source: Vinyl / LP - Unofficial Release 
equipment: Lenco 3806 / Sonar(Roland) VS-100 / Soundforge Pro 10.0
Format: FLAC
Year: unknown
Artwork included

Pretty rare unofficial compilation release. It contains 2 tracks from the John Peel Sessions in 1979 8 tracks recorded at The Marquee, London, March 1979 and 4 tracks from the Midnight Express show in july 1983

A1 - Desperate Journalist (Grinding Halt improv)
A2 - Subway Song 
A3 - Object (unmentioned 03b Foxy Lady)
A4 - Meathook 
A5 - 3 Imaginary Boys 
A6 - Boys Don't Cry 
A7 - Handsome (Unissued) (Do the Hansa)
A8 - 10:15 Saturday Night 

B1 - Figurehead 
B2 - M 
B3 - Drowning Man 
B4 - One Hundred Years 

A1-A2 - John Peel 1979
A3-A8 - 1979-03-11 - Marquee Club, London, UK (first known recording)
B1-B4 - 1983-07-27 - Midnight Express, Bournemouth, UK

Personal note:
I bought this record some months ago on a record fair. One of the better additions to my Cure bootleg collection. Good quality for bootleg recordings in those years. A nice compilation of the various 'faces' of the early Cure. Not much info available about the actual release of the LP.

Some interesting versions. 'Desperate Journalist' is 'Grinding halt' with improvised lyrics, against a stupid review on their music. Tracks 3 to 8 on side one is a part of the first known recording of an early live show. 
Very good atmosphere and great live versions of old songs. Unmentioned on the cover, track 3 also has 'Foxy Lady' after 'Object'. I have cut these tracks and called them 3A and 3B.

Side 2 is part of one of the 3 shows The Cure did in 1983. After the split up in 1982, they took a break for almost a year. Robert Smith started it up again with Laurence Tolhurst and Phil Tornally and Andy Anderson were added for live performances.

This recording is untouched, no clean-ups, no noise reduction, no cuts in pauzes between songs on the record, I wanted to keep close to the sensation of 'playing a record'.