![]() ![]() How was yours?Īnd now here we all are, sitting on a rainbow with a brand new Teardrop Explodes boxed set to investigate. It began with live sets from 1981 – the summer UK tour – then blistering gigs from early 82, radio sessions, a tape of demos mixing third album outtakes, Cope solo demos and 81 studio sessions, then a Betamax video of all their UK TV appearances including a scintillating Whistle Test set from April 82 and the official live video filmed in the summer of 1981 and how could they be so different to each other? Slowly piecing together the timeline and working out how each song fitted into the chronology of the band and maybe at some point in the future I should write about it somewhere… All that knowledge stuffed in my head with nowhere for it to go. Once I’d bought all the Teardrop Explodes’ records I turned to the more dubious side of the record fairs I attended and started to collect bootleg tapes. I have dreamt of this set for a long long time – thirty eight years to be precise. “ The Teardrop Explodes – The Culture Bunker 1978 – 1982″ – a review
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