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The Nips Bootlegs
Vengeance / Gabrielle / King Of The Bop / Ghostown / Venus In Bovver Boots / Private Eye / Happy Song / Fuss 'N' Bother / Stupid Cow / Infatuation / Maida Ada / Love To Make You Cry / I Don't Want Nobody To Love / Gabrielle A great bootleg to own - the earliest recording of Shane. It's too bad there are no "new" songs that do not already appear on the Nips singles or the live album "Only The End Of The Beginning." 
xx-xx-79 - xx-xx-80 The Hope & Anchor, Islington, London, England 32 min. Fuss ‘n’ Bother / Loot / Nervous Wreck / Eltham / Venus In Bovver Boots / Private Eye / Gabrielle / Maida Aida / All The Time In The World / King Of The Bop / Private Eye Only the second Nips show to surface. A great performance including two new songs, Loot and Eltham. Plus the only known live performances of Nervous Wreck and All The Time In The World. xx-xx-80 German Television 3 min. Infatuation Also circulates on video (see Videos). 
The Jam: "The Music Machine", "Rare 4 Trax E.P. Volume 1" 12-Dec-80 The Music Machine, Camden Town, London, England 79 min. with Shane MacGowan Dream Time / Thick As Thieves / Boy About Town / Monday / Going Underground / Pretty Green / Man In The Cornershop / Set The House Ablaze / Private Hell / Liza Radley / The Dreams Of Children / This Is The Modern World / Little Boy Soldiers / But I'm Different Now / Start! / Scrape Away / Strange Town / When You're Young / In The City / To Be Someone / David Watts / Eton Rifles / Heatwave (Shane MacGowan vocals) / A-Bomb In Wardour Street Shane MacGowan sings "Heatwave" with The Jam at a secret gig at the Music Machine, Camden Town for Paul Weller's parents wedding anniversary. The full Music Machine show is available on a CDR called "The Music Machine". "Heatwave" is also featured on a limited edition 4 track bootleg 7ins vinyl EP called Rare 4 Trax E.P. Volume 1. There are two different picture sleeves available - 75 copies with the pink sleeve and 400 copies with the Union Jack sleeve. Both versions were released by Modernist Music in 1993 (MM 001). "The Jam Xmas Party" xx-Dec-80 The Greyhound, Fulham Palace Road, London, England 30 min. with Shane MacGowan Heatwave / I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself / Sun Arise The MC introduces Paul Weller, Rick Buckler and Bruce Foxton, he then introduces Shane as follows: "...now I'll tell you something - on a tour of the world for a prize cunt and we're going to find him in the Greyhound"!!!! The impromptu ensemble eventually consists of Shane, Paul Weller (keyboards), Bruce Foxton (bass - Heatwave), Jeff Martin (bass - Sun Arise & I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself), Rick Buckler (drums), Staveley [Nips] (guitar), the Dolly Mixtures (backing vocals - Heatwave) Sun Arise is Shane's take on the Rolf Harris classic which reached No. 2 in the UK singles charts in 1962. |
