Tangerine Dream

Live At The Kelvin Hall, Glasgow

November, 20th 1974

- Live, released November 2024 -

Cover

2LP release Europe 2024
Design: LaSarfat'

Tracks


1.	Live At The Kelvin Hall, Part 1	A	17:49
2.	Live At The Kelvin Hall, Part 2	B	20:10
3.	Live At The Kelvin Hall, Part 3	C	15:02
4.	Live At The Metamusik Festival, National Galerie, Berlin, October 13th, 1974	D	18:58
Total running time		71:59

Details


Recording date	November 20, 1974 & October 13, 1974
Composer(s)	Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann
Musician(s)	Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann

Notes

During their first UK tour in 1974, Tangerine Dream, at that time consisting of Edgar Froese, Chris Franke and Peter Baumann, performed at Kelvin Hall in Glasgow. The concert was captured by local station Radio Clyde for later broadcast, and in fact Radio Clyde are known to have aired at least 50 minutes of the concert. An off-air recording of that broadcast was at one stage intended as a volume for the Tangerine Tree series shortly before its conclusion, providing a very much improved sound quality compared to the audience recording of the same concert that had already been fan-released as Tangerine Leaves Volume 52: Glasgow 1974 (2005).

Only a single 1/4" tape reel of the original Radio Clyde recording is known to have survived, the last of three which are alleged to contain the entire performance. Despite being nearly half a century old, this reel, containing the second main set and the encore, had been kept in excellent condition. When it was offered via eBay in January 2019, a dedicated TD fan bought it and professionally transferred it to digital. It was then gently remastered in February 2019 by Wouter Bessels. This version has been known to circulate among fans since then.

Finally, in November 2024, almost exactly 50 years after the performance, this recording was officially released on vinyl as Live At The Kelvin Hall, Glasgow on the occasion of the Record Store Day on November 29th, 2024. Due to limitations of the vinyl format, the main set had to be split in two parts.

Since the Glasgow recording would only fill three vinyl sides, a bonus track was added for side four: an excerpt of a concert that TD had performed in West-Berlin about two weeks before embarking to the UK. This track had already been fan-released as part of Tangerine Tree Volume 41: Space Is The Place, but was completely remastered as well by Wouter Bessels for this release.

This album is regarded as part of a series of similar RSD vinyl albums, by now consisting of:

Live At Reims Cathedral 1974 (2021 and 2022)
Live In Reims Cinema Opera (2022)
Live In Paris Palais des Congrès (2023)
Live At The Kelvin Hall, Glasgow (2024)

It comes with a new essay (again, by Wouter Bessels) and numerous band photos -- none of them from 1974, unfortunately. The cover photo, by the way, does not show Kelvin Hall but Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum which is located on the opposite site of the road. But these minor mistakes do not lessen the value of this album for TD and/or vinyl collectors, of course.

Releases


Europe	2024: Culture Factory/Eastgate 2LP: 783 853; blue and yellow vinyl; limited edition