Part 4. Demos & Bootlegs

"The Bootlegged Groove Machine"

Tracks:
1. Handful Of Songs
2. One Girl
3. She's The Rain
4. Kick (Under Your Skin)
5. Ooh Ooh Aah Aah
6. Tell Me
7. Oh Dear, Dear, Dierdre, oh Deary
8. How High (The Upper Hand)
9. In The Dark
10. Bang Bang, Rat a Tat
11. Golden Green
12. Take A Look

Notes:
- Various pre-ELGM demos and B-Sides. (12")

"A Wonderful Day" - fan club re-release

Surfin' Records (UK), SR003.

Tracks:
1. A Wonderful Day
2. Down Here
3. It's Not True...
4. Like A Merry Go Round

Notes:
- This was a bootleg repress of 1000.


Recorded Concerts

This section contains a small selection of the many Wonder Stuff concerts that happened to be recorded; some professionally, some not-so professionally. At least you know what's out there.. Feel free to add your own..Just E-Mail me. If you want setlists, let me know; this page would be huge if I posted them all! Oh, and the Quality section refers to "what I've been told"; I am often wrong.

Title:                  "13 Appalling Songs"
Date:                   5 July, 1988
Location:               Irish Centre, Birmingham
# of Tracks:            13
Source:                 ?
Distributed on:         Vinyl
Quality:                Poor


Title:                  Newcastle Riverside
Date:                   June 1988                  
Location:               Newcastle Riverside   
# of Tracks:            ? 
Source:                 ?            
Distributed on:         ?                            
Quality:                "not bad, hardly anybody there by the sound of it"   


Title:                  "Live at the New Ritz"
Date:                   20 April, 1989
Location:               The "New Ritz", New York City 
# of Tracks:            16
Source:                 WDRE Radio Broadcast
Distributed on:         Tape
Quality:                Excellent


Title:                  "Live at The Cabaret Metro"
Date:                   April, 1989
Location:               The Cabaret Metro, Chicago
# of Tracks:            16
Source:                 WXRT Radio Broadcast
Distributed on:         Tape
Quality:                Excellent

"Future Shock"

  
Title:                  "Future Shock"
Date:                   1989                           
Location:               ?            
# of Tracks:            4 - Don't Let Me Down, Ten Trenches,
                            Red Berry, & Gimmie Some Truth.
Source:                 ? 
Distributed on:         7"                                  
Quality:                Probably crap, it looks very cheap. 


Title:                  Newcastle Mayfair 
Date:                   Nov 1989 
Location:               Newcastle Mayfair                                
# of Tracks:            ?                                                  
Source:                 ?                                                  
Distributed on:         ?                                                  
Quality:                "bearable"

"Big Day In, Big Day Out"

    
Title:                  "Big Day In, Big Day Out"                      
Date:                   1991
Location:               Studio; Walsall, England      
# of Tracks:            ?
Source:                 Dunno, but it was pretty crappy.       
Distributed on:         12" 
Quality:                ick

Title:                  "Lovin The World"
Date:                   October 19, 1991
Location:               The Cabaret Metro, Chicago
# of Tracks:            17
Source:                 WXRT Radio Broadcast
Distributed on:         Tape
Quality:                Excellent


Title:                  "Live at The Roxy"
Date:                   September, 1991
Location:               The Roxy, Los Angeles
# of Tracks:            13
Source:                 KROC Radio Broadcast
Distributed on:         Tape
Quality:                Good

"Inertia"

Date:                   11 December, 1991
Location:               The G-Mex, Manchester
# of Tracks:            15
Source:                 ?
Distributed on:         CD
Quality:                Good
Availability:           Available through KTS: KTS055
                        CD Music Co.
                        Via Canaletto, 18
                        47046 Misano Adriatico,
                        Forli, Italy
                        Phone - (39) 541-610556
                        Fax - (39) 541-613948
                        One CD is $22 plus $4.50 shipping.
                        See http://www.cdnow.com
                        - An Australian CD is also available
                          with a far less exciting cover.
			 

Title:                  "Sleigh The U.K. Winter '91"
Date:                   15 December, 1991
Location:               Brixton Academy, London
# of Tracks:            25
Source:                 ?
Distributed on:         Tape
Quality:                Poor


Title:                  "The Winter Warmer"
Date:                   19 December, 1991
Location:               Town and Country Club, London
# of Tracks:            24 + 3 Acoustic
Source:                 ? + BBC Radio Session
Distributed on:         Vinyl
Quality:                Fair


Title:                  "The Very Special Guest"
Date:                   19 March, 1992
Location:               Leicester University
# of Tracks:            12
Source:                 ?
Distributed on:         Vinyl
Quality:                Good


Title:                  "Reading Festival 92'"
Date:                   Summer, 1992
Location:               Reading, England
# of Tracks:            22
Source:                 ?
Distributed on:         Tape
Quality:                Good


"On The Ropes"

Date:                   4 November, 1993
Location:               The Rockefeller, Oslo, Norway
# of Tracks:            22
Source:                 ?
Distributed on:         CD
Quality:                Excellent
Availability:           Available through KTS: KTS289
                        CD Music Co.
                        Via Canaletto, 18
                        47046 Misano Adriatico,
                        Forli, Italy
                        Phone - (39) 541-610556
                        Fax - (39) 541-613948
                        One CD is $22 plus $4.50 shipping.
                        See http://www.cdnow.com
                        A sloppier version is available on Octopus Records

"Live at The Rockefeller"

Date:                   4 November, 1993
Location:               The Rockefeller, Oslo, Norway
# of Tracks:            22
Source:                 ?
Distributed on:         CD
Quality:                Excellent
Availability:           ??? .. same damn thing as "On The Ropes"
                        Available on Octopus Records

Title:                  "The KROQ Acoustic X-Mas '93"
Date:                   December, 1993
Location:               L.A., somewhere
# of Tracks:            I only caught 3, were there more?
Source:                 KROQ Radio Broadcast
Distributed on:         Tape
Quality:                Excellent


Title:                  ?
Date:                   17 March, 1994
Location:               Leicester Granby Hall
# of Tracks:            16
Source:                 ?
Distributed on:         Tape
Quality:                Fair


Title:                  ?
Date:                   15 April, 1994
Location:               Reading Rivermead
# of Tracks:            24
Source:                 ?
Distributed on:         Tape
Quality:                Poor


Title:                  Idiots on the Road '94                         
Date:                   17th March/ 18th April/ 15th April 1994          
Location:               Leicester/ Cambridge/ Reading Rivermead       
# of Tracks:            22                      
Source:                 BBC/ ?/ ?
Distributed on:         CD  
Quality:                Excellent 


Title:                  Tribute to the Bass Thing
Date:                   19 May, 1994
Location:               ?
# of Tracks:            ?
Source:                 ?
Distributed on:         CD (see http://lainet3.lainet.com/~cdbanzai/) 
Quality:                ?


Title:                  Phoenix Festival '94
Date:                   14 July, 1994
Location:               ?
# of Tracks:            25
Source:                 BBC Radio Broadcast
Distributed on:        	CD (see http://lainet3.lainet.com/~cdbanzai/)
Quality:                Good

"The Wonder Stuff - The Last Concert"

Date:                   1994
Title:                  Phoenix Festival '94
Date:                   14 July, 1994
Location:               ?
# of Tracks:            23
Source:                 BBC Radio Broadcast
Distributed on:         CD 
Quality:                Very Good 
Availability:           Rarities & Few, RFCD 1349.

"Shut Up, Grow Up, And Get Off The Fucking Car"

Date:                   May 1996 
Location:               Various 
# of Tracks:            38 
Source:                 Radio, LP, Various 
Distributed on:         CD
Quality:                So-So to Excellent
Availability:           Hah!, don't even think about it! It is a private
                        release.
+++ lots more I don't even know about!!

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