#teardrop explodes

The Teardrop Explodes, Smash Hits 1980

Musician, writer poet artist and blessed lunatic Julian Cope

Sleeping Gas

Julian Cope by Jill Furmanovsky, 1981

Julian Cope by Steve Rapport, 1981

Teardrop Explodes 1982-06-28 The Haçienda Manchester Full audience recording, unknown taper, although I suspect that this may be a Eddie Wolfram recording. Tracklist 01 Books [0:00] 02 Like Leila Khaled Said [5:23] 03 Falling Down Around Me [9:53] 04 Pile Up I'm Driving [12:30] 05 Precious Heart [15:18] 06 ...And The Fighting Takes Over [18:33] 07 Treason [21:56] 08 Tiny Children [24:36] 09 Suffocate [27:58] 10 You Disappear From View [31:56] 11 Colours Fly Away [35:08] 12 Reward [38:35] 13 The Culture Bunker [42:12] Haçienda fanzine: https://www.mdmarchive.co.uk/artefact/16486/The-Hacienda-Fanzine-1982

Teardrop Explodes 1979-09-15 Eric's Liverpool Mixing desk recording. Setlist Second Head [0:34] Brave Boys Keep Their Promises [4:24] Sleeping Gas [7:01] Take A Chance [10:40] Ha Ha, I'm Drowning [13:14] Read It In Books [17:37] Straight Rain [20:12] Camera Camera [23:18] Went Crazy [26:33] Bounding Babies [29:45] Save Me (Arethra Franklin) [33:13] Sourced from 192kbps MP3s of the mixing desk recording supplied by tomzero Phase corrected and normalized in Adobe Audition 2025. Prior to this, the only tracks on YouTube from this performance were opener "Second Head": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrql8eYKDo4 ...and instrumental Straight Rains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNa2VNwfcmc The story about this track is archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20151006203404/http://www.bombedoutpunk.com/history/mystery-solved-the-naming-of-teardrop-explodes-and-julian-cope-records/ As was Eric's standard, there was both a matinee and evening show. Posters show 15th September which was a Saturday, except for one which was mistakenly listed as the 13th. The files were labelled as 16th September, so am guessing this is likely to be the evening show, which matches with setlist.fm: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-teardrop-explodes/1979/erics-liverpool-england-6bf68e16.html Eric's Posters taken from the New Corn Poppy blogspot... https://thenewcornpoppy.blogspot.com/2015/06/1979-erics-mathew-street-liverpool.html