Suede - 1997 Fanclub B-Sides Gig : London Forum 05 April 1997

In 1997, Suede played one of their legendary fanclub gigs at the London Forum on Saturday 5th April. This time around, the band played a set solely of B-sides, including the first and only live performances for a number of songs (Including "Sam"*, "These Are The Sad Songs", and "Every Monday Morning Comes").

For a very brief period of time, you could order a professionally shot VHS video of the show in return for a cheque for £10. I don't know how many VHS tapes were sent out, but it wasn't many, and many people had their cheques returned. Luckily, I got one of those tapes.

Not previously published on YouTube, I've recovered a wonky and failing DVD-R transfer of the VHS and converted it into MP4. This video contains the main set of the show - and stops at 62 minutes thanks to a bad sector on the Woolworths DVD-R. In order to get the DVD to play this far I had to manually play it in VLC and screen capture the output (hence the "DVD://d" notice on the opening seconds).

Nonetheless, here is the entire released VHS-only show (apart from the last few minutes of "Every Monday Morning Comes", which will be uploaded separately).

Technical notes : Taken from an old VHS tape, so the quality is what it is. There are some white dots at the top of the screen : these contain timecode and audio information and were not visible when played back on VHS.

Tracklist :
01. The Sound Of The Streets
02. My Dark Star
03. Together
04. Killing Of A Flashboy
05. He's Dead
06. Another No One
07. The Living Dead
08. The Big Time
09. Europe Is Our Playground
10. This Time
11. To The Birds
12. The Young Men
13. These Are The Sad Songs
14. Every Monday Morning Comes [end cut off]

*Wait, where's "Sam" and "My Insatiable One"? They were edited out of the VHS release.