!LIVE ALONE: THE BASTARD OF BELGIUM CD, UpYours Records in association with Punk Hart Productions, 1/10/2005, USA

1. NOTHING'S GONNA PULL IT APART   3:17 2. BETWEEN YOU and ME   2:20 3. SHARPENING AXES   4:33 4. TEAR YOUR PLAYHOUSE DOWN   3:37 5. BAGGAGE   3:28 6. FINAL PAGE   3:46 7. GONNA USE IT NOW   3:15 8. CRYING for ATTENTION   3:57 9. LOVE WITHOUT GREED   3:43 10. SOMEONE to WATCH OVER ME   1:30 11. SHE'S ELECTRIC   2:49 12. THUNDER and RAIN   3:46 13. BACK in TIME   4:00 14. SOCKS 'n' SANDALS   3:18 15. HEAT TREATMENT   2:49 RECORDED by STEF VAN ALSENOY at ANCIENNE BELGIQUE BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, APRIL 3, 1998 EDITED and MASTERED by DAVE COOK at the BASTARDS BARN PHOTOGRAPHY, ARTWORK and DESIGN by JOLIE PARKER ALL SONGS WRITTEN by GP and PUBLISHED by ELLISCLAN LTD./ADMIN BUG MUSIC except: TRACK 4 WRITTEN by EARL RANDLE    PUBLISHED by IRVING MUSIC TRACK 10 WRITTEN by GEORGE and IRA GERSHWIN    PUBLISHED by WB MUSIC CORP TRACK 11 WRITTEN by GALLAGHER    PUBLISHED by SONY/ATV SONGS LLP MANUFACTURED AND PRINTED BY DISC MAKERS PENNSAUKEN, NJ, U.S.A

THIS has been a GP PRODUCTION for UpYOURS RECORDS in ASSOCIATION with PUNKHART PRODUCTIONS. Back in '98 I was doing a European solo tour and happened to play a gig in Brussels, Belgium, in a theater called "Ancienne Belgique." It's a rather formal sit-down space, a bit like a small cinema, with good acoustics and a fine sound system. It also boasts (or at least did at that time) a professional recording studio upstairs. Some time before arriving there, the engineer forwarded the idea of recording the show. I agreed. I've had the results of the project locked up in my customized, de-humidified temperature controlled tape storage facility ever since (OK, a closet full of kids' toys and shit), waiting for the correct moment to launch this monkey into the world. Please let me make it abundantly clear: "Bastard" is not a bootleg and was not recorded by some shifty individual with a microphone sticking out of his underwear (how can I get that point across...OK, try this: THIS IS NOT A BOOTLEG!!). It is in fact a very high-class recording of what turns out to be a real corker of a show. It is not part of our "bootleg series" but more akin to a new release. It's of sufficiently high quality that it could be on a proper record label and distributed in the normal fashion, but I'd prefer something that isn't a band recording to be released in this more niche-oriented style, for the people who are really interested, yourselves. It will also come in a smart digi-pak and will consequently cost more than our previous onsite release, "Live Cuts From Somewhere," which was most definitely a bootleg and was packaged in a single envelope. However, like our first release, "!Live Alone: The Bastard Of Belgium" will be manufactured in very limited quantity.     -- Graham Parker

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