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A bunch of great songs from C86, Star Wars, Life Goes On and even songs from their 53rd & 3rd years. But in my opinion the most interesting part are the covers, The Vaselines? The Groovy Little Numbers? Captain America? The Soup Dragons? Dead Kennedys??? It's incredible. When I clicked on the video I simply did not expect such a long set full of amazing covers (is it really a cover if the main songwriter is performing it with another band though?).

This is also my very favorite BMX Bandits lineup, featuring Gordon Keen and Eugene Kelly on guitar (both from Eugenius/Captain America), Joe McAlinden on bass (Groovy Little Numbers, Boy Hairdressers, Superstar), Francis MacDonald on drums (Boy Hairdressers, Teenage Fanclub) and of course the one and only Duglas T. Stewart on vocals.

L-R First picture: Frances Mckee (Vaselines), Sean Dickson (Soup Dragons), Duglas T. Stewart (BMX Bandits) and Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub)

Before any of those bands, they were in The Pretty Flowers (also named The Child Molesters at some point) and played a show with The Famous Monsters (a band Eugene Kelly was in at the time, however from what I know this is a different band than the 90s band Famous Monsters that features Eugene and Norman Blake). Frances said she didn't like the name Pretty Flowers, she wanted the name to be Child Molesters.

The Vaselines' first gig, 1986 in Bristol supporting The Pastels, before even releasing Son Of A Gun. The recordings from this show were included on Enter The Vaselines.

Live at Maxwell's Oct 31st 1992, not my recording, the original one can be found here: