The live Hope & Anchor Front Row Festival album from 1978 is getting it’s first release on CD in December 2019.
Recorded in the winter of 1977, but released a year later – the album is a double disc featuring live tracks recorded at the festival from The Stranglers, The Wilko Johnson Band, XTC, Dire Straits, X-ray Spex, The Only Ones, Steel Pulse and more.
The album is a time-capsule capturing some of the punk, new wave and pub-rock acts of this era, in their prime.
Previously only available on vinyl and cassette, this a first CD release for the Hope & Anchor Front Row Festival album.
Disc: 1
- Dr. Feelgood – The Wilko Johnson Band
- Straighten Out – The Stranglers
- Styrofoam – Tyla Gang
- Don’t Munchen It – The Pirates
- Speed Kills – The Steve Gibbons Band
- I’m Bugged – XTC
- I Hate School – Suburban Studs
- Billy – The Pleasers
- Science Friction – XTC
- Eastbound Train – Dire Straits
- Bizz Fizz – Burlesque
- Let’s Submerge – X-ray Spex
- Crazy – 999
Disc: 2
- Demolition Girl – The Saints
- Quite Disappointing – 999
- Creatures Of Doom – The Only Ones
- Gibson Martin Fender – The Pirates
- Sound Check – Steel Pulse
- Zero Hero – Roogalator
- Underground Romance – Philip Rambow
- Rock & Roll Radio – The Pleasers
- On The Street – Tyla Gang
- Johnny Cool – The Steve Gibbons Band
- Twenty Yards Behind – The Wilko Johnson Band
- Hanging Around – The Stranglers
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