Category Archives: Live Music

DEVO Recombine For Twin 2021 Shows With More Shirts, Discs In Pipeline

Posted on May 25, 2021 by postpunkmonk

When it rains, it pours DEVO in these days of Maximum De-Evolution®! If the 21st century had not made abundantly clear enough, we’ve already peaked. Decades ago, really, and it’s just the big entropic wave approaching us at 120 m.p.h. … Continue reading →

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Midge Ure Finishing The 1980 Tour With Worldwide Streaming Finale

Posted on April 13, 2021 by postpunkmonk

Let it not be said that the covid-19 era hasn’t had some slight upticks in the way that live shows were handled. While nothing beats the excitement of a real concert, the painful fact is that most of the concerts … Continue reading →

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REVO Remastering – Talking Heads – Live On Tour/The Warner Brothers Music Show [REVO 099]

Posted on March 10, 2021 by postpunkmonk

My desire for having this album snakes backward in time for over 40 years. I first heard TVLKING HEVDS in the summer of 1978 when “Take Me To The River” eked its way onto the FM Rock airwaves that I … Continue reading →

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Want List: Ultravox! Live At The Rainbow 1977 Streaming Only Album

Posted on February 2, 2021 by postpunkmonk

Ultravox!: Live At The Rainbow 1977 – UK – STREAM [2021] Against all odds, the recent news of this live Ultravox! recording from 1977 has emerged of late to bamboozle This Monk with its bounty of vintage ‘Vox goodness. There … Continue reading →

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Want List: Bryan Ferry Steps Up With New Live Album To Fund Band & Crew

Posted on December 7, 2020 by postpunkmonk

Earlier this year there was a vintage Bryan Ferry album that snuck out into the world. His 1974 concert at that famous Royal Albert Hall was released as one of the first vintage Ferry concerts to get the nod years … Continue reading →

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“Vienna” Gets Ultrabox After 40 Years As Synth Rock Touchstone [part 6]

Posted on October 27, 2020 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] LIVE @ ST. ALBANS [Aug. 16, 1980] The fifth disc was the primary reason why I was hot to hear this boxed set. It represented a second best chance for me to finally hear the band … Continue reading →

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OMD To Livestream A Special Concert To Benefit Their Road Crew On October 24th

Posted on September 21, 2020 by postpunkmonk

Last week the call went out: OMD were planning a livestream concert, and unlike the one they had earlier this year, [which was a stream of an earlier show they had ready to show] this one will be live, as … Continue reading →

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