October 2013

This month marks the twelfth Bootleg Basement show, and to celebrate I thought I'd unleash one of my top five favourite bootlegs courtesy of Nine Inch Nails.

This recording was made in 1994 at the infamous Woodstock 94 festival –  that's the one with the rain and mud and not the rioting – and it is a superb outing from the band as part of their Self-Destruct tour. This has been bootlegged many times on CD, and also thanks to it being available to watch on pay-per-view, the performance is also easy to find on DVD.




That was the wonderful Nine Inch Nails I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. For the next couple of months I'll be taking a break from the basement, but don't worry I'll return in the new year with another 12 selections from my archive. But until then, I've been your host and this has been the bootleg basement.

Track List:

"Pinion"

"Terrible Lie"

"Sin"

"March Of The Pigs"

"Something I Can Never Have"

"Closer"

"Reptile"

"Wish"

"Suck"

"Burn"

"The Only Time"

"Down In It"

"Dead Souls"

"Help Me I Am In Hell"

"Happiness In Slavery"

"Head Like A Hole"

To listen to the show you can either visit my page on Mixcloud, or click the embedded player below.

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August, 2013

This month we have a nice and intimate gig for you courtesy of one of the greatest post-punk bands of the 80s and 90s, The Chameleons.

This recording was made in December 2001 at the Lomax in Liverpool, and is a nice audience recording that only suffers from a little muffling on Mark Burgess' vocals. It's a great archive performance by a band that is still with us in spirit thanks to Burgess' own tribute Chameleons Vox.   

Track List:

01. Intro
02. Shades
03. A Person Isn't Safe Anywhere These Days
04. Pleasure And Pain
05. Dangerous Land
06. Anyone Alive
07. Indiana
08. Intrigue In Tangiers
09. Perfume Garden
10. Tears
11. Soul In Isolation
12. Miracles And Wonders
13. Truth Isn't Truth Anymore
14. Caution
15. Second Skin
16. Encore
17. Splitting In Two   

To listen to the show you can either visit my page on Mixcloud, or click the embedded player below.

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July, 2013

This month we're still very much in the 80's as we'll be listening to an excellent bootleg from the Hacienda's house band, New Order.

Recorded at the former Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, California in June 1989, The bootleg is a quality soundboard recording from the band's tour in support of the 'Technique' album.

Mixing their new wave roots with the newer house influenced sounds, the recording shows off the band at their height.

Track List:

1. Ceremony
2. True Faith
3. Age Of Consent
4. Dream Attack
5. All The Way
6. Mr Disco
7. Your Silent Face
8. Vanishing Point
9. Round And Round
10. Temptation
11. Bizarre Love Triangle
12. The Perfect Kiss
13. All Day Long
14. Fine Time

To listen to the show you can either visit my page on Mixcloud, or click the embedded player below.

Mr Palfrey's Bootleg Basement: Show #9, June 2013 by Sean M. Palfrey on Mixcloud

June, 2013

This month we'll be listening to a classic bootleg from Ministry although there is some conjecture as to when and where this recording was made.

It was either Orlando Florida in 1987 (as stated on the bootleg's cover), or Washington DC in '88. Personally I think Al Jourgensen mentioning playing in 'capital' when addressing the audience gives it away somewhat.

This is another crowd recording which suffers from a somewhat muffled sound and a disproportionate amount of audience noise. But it is a great show, especially with the addition of Skinny Puppy's Nivek Ogre for a few songs.

Track List:

1. Where you at now?
2. We Believe
3. You know what you are
4. Land of rape and honey
5. Flashback
6. The Missing
7. Deity
8. Smothered Hope
9. Golden Dawn
10. No Devotion


To listen to the show you can either visit my page on Mixcloud, or click the embedded player below.

Mr Palfrey's Bootleg Basement: Show #9, June 2013 by Sean M. Palfrey on Mixcloud

May, 2013

Can you believe that it is time for episode eight of the bootleg basement? It may be a bit late this month but I have a great Depeche Mode bootleg for you to make up for it.

This recording was made a few years ago at the Siemens Arena in Vilnius, Lithuania in March 2006.

This is another crowd recording which suffers from a somewhat muffled sound and a disproportionate amount of audience noise. Nonetheless this is a great, and long set from the band that shows off their live prowess.

Track List:

01. Intro
02. A Pain That I'm Used To
03. John The Revelator
04. A Question Of Time
05. Policy Of Truth
06. Precious
07. Walking In My Shoes
08. Suffer Well
09. Damaged People
10. Home
11. I Want It All
12. The Sinner In Me
13. I Feel You
14. Behind The Wheel
15. World In My Eyes
16. Personal Jesus
17. Enjoy The Silence
Encore 1
18. A Question Of Lust
19. Just Can't Get Enough
20. Everything Counts
Encore 2
21. Never Let Me Down Again
22. Goodnight Lovers

To listen to the show you can either visit my page on Mixcloud, or click the embedded player below.

Mr Palfrey's Bootleg Basement: Show #8, May 2013 by Sean M. Palfrey on Mixcloud

April, 2013

This is episode number seven of the bootleg basement, and this month I have a classic performance from the legendary Killing Joke lined up for you.

This recording was made at the Hammersmith Palais in London on the 28th September 1986 as part of the band's supporting tour for the album 'Night Time'.

This is a very “old school” style of recording which suffers from a somewhat muffled sound and a very pronounced tape hiss that gives away the fact that it was transferred from tape to CD without any real mastering  Nonetheless this is a strong performance from the band in the period where they were making in-roads into mainstream acceptance.

Track List:

01. Twilight Of The Mortals
02. Chessboards
03. Kings And Queens
04. Darkness Before Dawn
05. Night Time
06. Love Like Blood
07. Love Of The Masses
08. Sanity
09. Sun Goes Down
10. The Wait
11. Requiem
12. Eighties
13. Wardance

To listen to the show you can either visit my page on Mixcloud, or click the embedded player below.

Mr Palfrey's Bootleg Basement: Show #7, April 2013 by Sean M. Palfrey on Mixcloud

I know there are still a few days ago but this is the only time I'm going to have to fit this in due to the launch of a new project (see the notes at the end for more. Anyway, 2012 has been a pretty good year for alternative  music, which is why this year I'm resorting to a list of 25 the best Gothic / Industrial (and related genres) releases this year has to offer. Not only that, but there have also been some great releases that don't quite qualify as albums such as live and remix albums as well as singles and EPs that shouldn't be allowed to slip under the radar just because they weren't full releases.
I've opted to present these in alphabetical order for the simple reason that when I attempted to assign ranks there were too many that were getting joint rankings. So I thought I'd just present my shortlist and let you all be the judges. So here are my picks (50 in all) of the best of 2012.

Note: Artwork, purchase links and videos are included where possible.


Full Albums [In Alphabetical Order]

Aeon Sable – 'Saturn Return'

Alterred – 'Dollstown'

Caustic – 'The Man Who Couldn't Stop'

Cease2xist – 'You Are Expendable'

Cold In Berlin – 'And Yet'

Darkc3ll – 'Reboot:Repeat'

Desdemona – 'Endorphins'

Diskonnekted – 'Hotel Existence'

Ghost In The Static – 'Fallout'

Grooving In Green – 'Stranglehold'

In Death It Ends – 'Forgotten Knowledge'

Killing Joke – 'MMXII'

Les Modules Etranges – 'Socially Awkward'

Marilyn Manson – 'Born Villain'

Merciful Nuns – 'Goetia IV'

O. Children - 'Apnea'

Object – 'Mechanisms Of Faith'

Pakt. – 'Berlin'

Red Sun Revival – 'Running From The Dawn'

Stray – 'Letting Go'

Tiamat – 'The Scarred People'

The Soft Moon - 'Zeros'

Third Realm – 'Beyond Good and Evil'

Twitch The Ripper – 'Colorblind'

Uberbyte – 'Five Year Plan'

Miscellaneous (Live, Remixes, EPs & Singles etc.) [In Alphabetical Order]

Alterred - 'The Electro Creepshow'

ASP - 'GeistErfahrer'

Beastmilk - 'Use Your Deluge'

Berlin Black And The Shades Of Grey – 'It's Only Natural'

Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs

Cynical Existence - ' Ruined Portrait'

Dalis Car – 'InGladAloneNe§'

Dawn of Ashes - 'Hollywood Made In Gehenna'

Dead Hand Projekt – 'The Lost EP'

Fields Of The Nephilim – 'Ceremonies'

Gary Numan - 'Dead Moon Falling'

GHXST – 'Black Camaro'

Goteki - 'Piranha'

How To Destroy Angels – 'An Omen'

In Death It Ends – 'Restorative Art'

Kommand + Kontrol 'It Hz'

Laibach – 'Monumental Retro-Avant-Garde'

Mari Chrome - 'Toxic'

Modulate - 'Robots'

Partly Faithful – 'Partly Faithful'

Psy'Aviah – 'OK/Virtual Gods'

Rammstein – 'Mein Herz Brennt'

Rome - 'Fester'

The Eden House – 'Timeflows'

Zeitgeist Zero – 'The Blackout' 

Well that's it. The end of 2012 and here are just some of my highlights from the year. If you like any of these releases please use the purchase links to support the artists.

Please also keep in mind that on the 1st of December 2013 I will be launching my own webzine Intravenous Magazine. Before then you can follow IVM on Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook to keep up with the latest developments.