Jackie Leven

Live Or Die - Live In Bremen 1999 & 2004

  • 4CD
  • Date : 26.04.2024
  • Package : CD Jewel Case
  • Running Time CD 1 : 45:53
  • Running Time CD 2 : 49:25
  • Running Time CD 3 : 58:14
  • Running Time CD 4 : 49:17

Jackie Leven – Live Or Die – Live In Bremen 1999 & 2004

The singer-songwriter, folk musician and storyteller Jackie Leven, born in 1950 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, the son of an Irishman and a Roma, began his musical career in the late 1960s under the pseudonym John St. Field, under which he also recorded his first album “Control” in 1973. Inspired by punk, he founded the band Doll by Doll in London in 1978. The band’s emotional, psychedelic-tinged New Wave was very well received live, but the band’s four albums did not achieve the expected commercial sales results. After Doll By Doll disbanded in 1983, Jackie Leven focussed on his solo career. However, after a number of personal and health-related strokes of fate, it was not until 11 years later that this took off with the release of the album “The Mystery of Love Is Greater Than the Mystery of Death”.

Jackie Leven also used several pseudonyms, for example he released three albums under Sir Vincent Lone with songs that were too out of the ordinary for his image as a folk musician. Leven died in 2011 at the age of 61 after a long, serious illness. His musical legacy also includes two concerts that Jackie gave in Bremen in 1999 and 2004, which were recorded by the broadcaster in the usual excellent sound quality. The 1999 concert in the Bremen music club “Moments” was performed by Jackie solo, in 2004 in the Radio Bremen broadcasting hall he was accompanied on keyboards by his long-time friend and web companion Michael Cosgrave.

 

Tracklist:

CD 1 – Live @ Club Moments, Bremen, 27 Mai, 1999

  1. Intro 03:04
  2. Stranger On The Square 05:06
  3. ad lib: Jackie Talking About Football (Soccer) 02:12
  4. Call Mother A Lonely Field 04:33
  5. ad lib: Jackie Talking About Andy White (Irish Singer) 04:23
  6. Looking For Love 08:38
  7. The Crazy Song 05:02
  8. Jim O´Windygates 08:45
  9. I Saw My Love Walk into Clouds 04:10

CD1 total: 45:53 min.

 

CD 2 – Live @ Club Moments, Bremen, 27 Mai, 1999

  1. Marble City Bar 07:09
  2. Universal Blue – Poortoun 10:41
  3. ad lib: Jackie Talking About City Life 03:08
  4. Single Father 05:13
  5. ad lib: Jackie Talking About His Son Simon 03:06
  6. Men In Prison 04:42
  7. ad lib: Jackie Talking About St. Kitts & Nevis 06:39
  8. Gylen-Gylen 08:47

CD2 total: 49:25 min.

 

CD 3 – Live @ Sendesaal, Bremen, 29 März, 2004

  1. Single Father 06:36
  2. ad lib: Butterfly 02:01
  3. My Philosophy 06:57
  4. Fly 05:13
  5. ad lib: Alvis Green 04:27
  6. Alvis Green 04:29
  7. ad lib: Glen Matlock is drinking… 01:54
  8. Empty In Soho Square 07:12
  9. A Little Voice In Space 08:49
  10. Classic Northern Diversions 10:36

CD3 total: 58:14 min.

 

CD 4 – Live @ Sendesaal, Bremen, 29 März, 2004

  1. ad lib: Little Brown Box 06:12
  2. Little Brown Box 04:10
  3. Poortoun 07:27
  4. ad lib: Certain German Places 01:58
  5. Exit Wound 09:19
  6. Call Mother A Lonely Field 07:27
  7. Tied -Up House 08:35
  8. Live Or Die 04:09

CD4 total: 49:17 min.

 

CD1+CD2+CD3+CD4 total: 202:49 min.