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Do you have any plans to release any live recordings? I know there's the Russell Club gig in Manchester that you took a couple of B-sides from, and I have a bootleg of a great German TV appearance that would make a fine live album. I know you're putting out a presumably remastered CD of Peel sessions.

DF: That's in October, yes, and the "Play" album is coming out as well, the live album from Australia, remastered. Not long ago around the time I was being asked if this could possibly be a goer with Magazine, this guy got in touch with me from Canada  saying he had bootlegs of Magazine from around the world and offered me copies of them. I'd got two or three of them already but there was about eight or nine and there was one that I was particularly glad to get which was the first time we played in New York at the Hurrah Club, which I hadn't heard before. There was another one from Australia. We played some big gigs with XTC, big municipal three thousand seater type venues. Then we played some smaller shows on our own and its from one of these and its a really excellent recording. It sounds like it was taken off the desk and was a half decent job.

Do you think you might release that?

DF: We're just toying with various ideas. There's a strong possibility that we might record at least one of these shows that are coming up. 

Are any bonus tracks going to be added to "Play?"

DF: A guy from Australia got in touch with me last week and was asking that very question, because it was from a TV show and he's got a video of it and there are two or three other tracks, but we didn't mix those. We got the twenty-four track tapes from Australia and remastered those, but those tracks weren't in there so probably not.

Presumably the Peel sessions have been remastered because in the box set they sound very much pre-high bit rate!

DF: Yeah, that was just a straight copy from the tapes.

Are there any other sessions from other radio shows?

DF: There's a BBC 'In Concert' session. I don't think it got released.

HD: It was the Paris Theatre. It did get released by Windsong.

I didn't know that.

DF: I didn't know that either. That's the only live thing I don't like that's been recorded.

HD: But how do you know you don't like it?

DF: Because I've heard a bootleg.

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