Thursday 2 January 2014

THE DELTAS - Live 1981

Recorded on a cassette tape recorder at Letchworth Football Club on Sunday 27th September 1981. This is a work in the process of being restored so a big thank you goes to Twister and the RockHall Audio Restoration Lab. Thanks also to Volker Houghton for the loan of the tape and the picture scans below. These tracks are not of a high quality, they are purely for historical value to fans of early 'The Deltas' music, and anyone else who wants to know what the rockin' scene was like in the early 1980's.  I saw 'The Deltas' play live the same as this set was recorded, in the downstairs bar of the 'Clarendon Hotel' in Hammersmith, West London, which is the same location where the Klub Foot started in the much larger ballroom upstairs. I remember the set being very similar to the recordings here, the only real difference was that the band took to the stage wearing boiler suits and hob-nailed boots and had no clarinet player. Crazy times indeed...

THE GOLDEN TICKET

TEAR IT UP *
HEART ATTACK * 
SHAKE YOUR MONEYMAKER
EARLY IN THE MORNING
AS YOU LIKE IT
LONG BLACK TRAIN
GIVE ME SOME LOVIN'
ROCKABILLY GUY
HOW COME YOU DO ME (LIKE YOU DO)
UNKNOWN TITLE
ICE COLD BABY
LET'S GO BOPPING TONIGHT
LUCKY LITTLE MAN

Boz Boorer on clarinet! *

Dancing (?) circa 1981

THE T-SHIRT

More dancing (?) while the Deltas cut loose!

ROCKABILLY GUY

8 comments:

  1. Thanks Very Much For This,Keep Rockin'

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  2. You're very welcome ragingsea. Fingers crossed these tracks will be cleaned up soon. When that happens I'll repost...

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  3. Unknown Title = Have you heard the gossip

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  4. Any chance of a re-post please?

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  5. hi !

    is it possible to order you a copy of the tape ?
    in cd or tape . my email adress is doubletrockabilly@yahoo.fr great rockin' salutations emmanuel

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  6. I was there - my 17th birthday that night...

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