Jeff Buckley
21 June 1995
City Varieties, Leeds, England

Master AUD recording
Taper: C

Art included

Lineage: Sony Walkman > Unknown Mic > C90 Cassette(M) > CD
Transfer: CD > EAC > FLAC > WAV > AudioJoiner/CDWave/AudioJoiner/CDWave > FLAC

Track List:
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CD1
01 intro
02 The Way Young Lovers Do (Van 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 (Nina Simone)
05 Last Goodbye
06 What Will You Say
07 chat
08 Hallelujah (inc. I Know It's Over (Smiths))

TT: 1:30:47

Jeff Buckley - Guitars & Vocals
Michael Tighe - Guitars
Mick Grondahl - Bass
Matt Johnson - Drums


With their recording obligations done, the band took two weeks well-deserved rest before setting off for the third leg of the 1995 Mystery White Boy Tour: 20 dates, largely following the Summer Festival circuit, with a few added nights. We are lucky to have recordings of 13 of them, in whole or in part, audio and video both. The tour opened in Edinburgh at Queen's Hall. We have no recording, but a contemporaneous review can be found here: https://notwithyoubutofyou.blogspot.com/2021/01/queens-hall-review.html

From Edinburgh, it was south to Leeds, and the Grade II listed City Varieties Music Hall, a venerable 450-seater which has been hosting entertainment events since the days of Queen Victoria. No longer the opening act, the band's set is expanded back to its full length. Lilac Wine is back in the rotation, but the usual encores are not played, perhaps due to the inclusion of a very special solo performance of "The Way Young Lovers Do", which careful listeners will hear, includes a couple of nifty teases. Jeff starts by announcing that Mickey Grondahl is missing - 'probably off getting drunk' - I assume that's why we get the tune, and it's a scat-filled scorcher. He finishes, saying, "Maybe he's here now". You can actually follow along with the most excellent 'libretto' provided by emilycurious, which is included in the upload. No real surprises in the rest of the show; there is a good bit of over-saturation in the loud bits, but it's a solid performance in a now quite listenable form.

Massive thanks to taper "C", to renowned trader and Buckley fan emilycurious, and the aintnobody for cleaning the set up so nicely. My original copy of these discs was in the same condition as the ones aintnobody had - I may have gotten mine from him in a trade. I tried to clean them up like he did, but he did a MUCH better job, so these are the files I'm uploading. I got this from his Dime upload many years back, and apart from the usual housekeeping, present them to you as-is.



Taper's notes:
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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.

emilycurious' original upload notes
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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. 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. I've included a rough transcript of the gig as a guide to the tracking. It's not perfect, but it is superb, imho.

aintnobody's upload notes
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It would appear that the original file set 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 & rejoined all the files, edited out the silences with CDWave, rejoined & then tracked accordingly. All thanks to taper 'C' & emilycurious


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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.

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