Live at the BBC (The Housemartins album)

Live at the BBC is a compilation album of live tracks recorded for the BBC between 1985 and 1987 by The Housemartins. While most of the tracks included are session versions recorded for various BBC radio shows, the disc also features a number of cuts from the band's performances in Nottingham and at the 1986 Glastonbury Festival, as broadcast on the BBC.

Live at the BBC
Live album by
Released2006
Recorded1985–1986
GenreAlternative rock, Indie rock
LabelUniversal Music
The Housemartins chronology
Now That's What I Call Quite Good
(1988)
Live at the BBC
(2006)
Soup
(2007)

The album features sleevenotes written by the band's former press officer and compere, Phill Jupitus, and serves as a companion to the previously released BBC session tracks included on the 1988 compilation album "Now That's What I Call Quite Good". With the exception of track 1, "Drop Down Dead", all of the recordings included on the disc are exclusive to this album.

Track listing

  1. "Drop Down Dead" – 3:00
  2. "Flag Day" – 3:34
  3. "Stand At Ease" – 2:54
  4. "Reverends Revenge" – 1:34
  5. "Shelter" – 3:22
  6. "People Get Ready" – 1:39
  7. "Over There" – 2:54
  8. "Caravan Of Love" – 4:40
  9. "Happy Hour" – 2:32
  10. "Heaven Help Us All" – 3:16
  11. "Pickin' The Blues (Peel Show Theme Tune)" – 0:51
  12. "Mercy" – 2:58
  13. "So Glad" – 1:53
  14. "He Brought Me Out" – 2:07
  15. "Sunday Isn't Sunday" – 2:06
  16. "Build" – 4:35
  17. "We're Not Deep" – 2:24
  18. "Me and the Farmer" – 2:58
  19. "The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death" – 3:21
  20. "The Light Is Always Green" – 3:51
  21. "The World's on Fire" – 3:04
  22. "We're Not Going Back" – 2:35
  23. "Johannesburg" – 3:47
  24. "Five Get Over Excited" – 4:44
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