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Complete BBC recordings on 2CD+Blu-Ray
All the BBC recordings in one place for the first time • 2CD+BluRay mediabook or 3LP
The Selecter have announced At The BBC: The Complete Recordings 1979-1981, to be released in August.
At The BBC: The Complete Recordings 1979-1981 covers The Selecter’s glory years, from the first of two John Peel sessions in October 1979 (coinciding with their first-on-the-bill slot on the legendary first 2Tone tour, supporting Madness and The Specials) to an April 1981 performance on The Old Grey Whistle Test, recorded months before singer Pauline Black effectively called time on the band by leaving to pursue a solo career and acting ambitions (they’d officially split the year after).
The 30-track set marks the first time that all the beloved 2Tone act’s BBC recordings have been released in one place. The eight live tracks taken from a December 1979 show in Paris supporting The Specials were released on 1992’s BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert CD (which also included the headline act’s set). Five of those Paris tracks featured on the 15-track 1998 compilation BBC Sessions / Live At The Paris Theatre ’79, along with those two Peel sessions and a December 1980 set recorded for Mike Read. And that first Peel session appeared again on 2021’s 3CD edition of debut album Too Much Pressure, while the 1980 Peel and Read sessions were included on the 2022 2CD reissue of second album, Celebrate The Bullet.
Of particular interest then, for fans will be 10 audio tracks from TV appearances on BBC Midlands show Look! Hear! and The Old Grey Whistle Test and – most excitingly perhaps – a Blu-Ray featuring footage of all those performances (plus an extra Look! Hear! take on ‘Celebrate The Bullet’), as well as four Top Of The Pops appearances.
The 2CD+Blu-Ray set comes in DVD case-sized ‘mediabook’ packaging with a 20-page booklet including new 6,000-word sleevenotes by Simon Price (Curepedia: An A-Z Of The Cure, Everything: A Book About Manic Street Preachers).
The 3LP set is pressed on black vinyl and arrives in a rigid slipcase and four-page insert featuring Price’s sleevenotes.
At The BBC: The Complete Recordings 1979-1981 will be released on 28 August 2026 via Chrysalis.
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Tracklisting
At The BBC: The Complete Recordings 1979-1981 The Selector /
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CD1
- They Make Me Mad
- Carry Go Bring Come
- Danger
- Street Feeling
- Murder
- Out On The Streets
- James Bond
- Carry Go Bring Come
- Street Feeling
- Everyday
- They Make Me Mad
- Too Much Pressure
- Three Minute Hero
- Everyday
- Too Much Pressure
- Murder
- Danger
- Missing Words
1-4: John Peel Session, 22 October 1979
5-12: BBC In Concert, 15 December 1979
13-15: Look Hear!, 29 January 1980
16-18: The Old Grey Whistle Test 19 February 1980
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CD2
- Selling Out Your Future
- Tell Me What’s Wrong
- Washed Up And Left For Dead
- Deep Water
- Bombscare
- (Who Likes) Facing Situations
- Cool Blue Lady
- Selling Out Your Future
- Bombscare
- (Who Likes) Facing Situations
- Celebrate The Bullet
- Washed Up And Left For Dead
1-4: John Peel Session, 1 December 1980
5-8: Mike Read Session, 1 December 1980
9-10: Look Hear!, 3 March 1981
11-12: The Old Grey Whistle Test, 4 April 1981
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Blu-Ray
- On My Radio (Top Of The Pops, 18 October 1979)
- Three Minute Hero (Top Of The Pops, 7 February 1980)
- Missing Words (Top Of The Pops, 3 April 1980)
- The Whisper (Top Of The Pops, 28 August 1980)
- Three Minute Hero (Look! Hear!, 29 February 1980)
- Everyday (Look! Hear!, 29 February 1980)
- Too Much Pressure (Look! Hear!, 29 February 1980)
- Murder (Old Grey Whistle Test, 19 February 1980)
- Danger (Old Grey Whistle Test, 19 February 1980)
- Missing Words (Old Grey Whistle Test, 19 February 1980)
- Bombscare (Look! Hear!, 3 March 1981)
- Facing Situations (Look! Hear!, 3 March 1981)
- Celebrate The Bullet (Look! Hear!, 3 March 1981)
- Washed Up And Left For Dead (Old Grey Whistle Test, 4 April 1981)
- Celebrate The Bullet (Old Grey Whistle Test, 4 April 1981)
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By Jamie Atkins
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