4-page grey, black and white booklet with introduction, track listing and credits.
The album has been assembled from performances while touring England during 1974-1977. The recordings have been assembled by Nigel Pearce and Bobby Purvis.
Vocals and harmonies: Billy Elliott and Bobby Purvis.
12 string guitar: Bobby Purvis.
Harmonica/kazoo: Billy Elliott.
All songs published by Umlaut Corporation/Ganga Music Publishing BV.
This album was re-mastered at Future Studios, Norwich by Nigel Pearce and Andrew Todd, 2021.
Art conception, design and interpreation by Bobby Purvis, Nigel Pearce and Barry Oldham.
This album is a Splinter/Inside No 3 production.
Front photograph: Ian Imery. Rear photograph and CD photograph: Ian Campbell.
Nigel Pearce, who was very much involved with this release, commented on a Splinter Facebook page in mid-October 2021:
The first 8 tracks are from the BBC’s Splinter In Concert recorded on 2 November 1974.
Tracks 9-14 are from independent sources from various venues including Wolverhampton, North Shields, Leeds and London, and are not of BBC origin.
Assembling and cleaning the recordings took a considerable amount of time and covered three very long sessions. They have been assembled from over 14 hours of original recordings, some of which were only half recorded or had considerable technical problems. As said in the notes [of the CD] nothing has been added or re-mixed, we have just cleaned and filtered the recordings once we had a full set we could use. There are more to be used in another project at a later date.
In the absence of any information in the accompanying material with this release, it has been suggested that tracks 1 to 8 come from the BBC’s Splinter In Concert recorded on 2 November 1974, which has been circulating for a few years thanks to a BBC transcription disc!
The mixes are slightly different though: clean stereo separation on the BBC disc, much narrower stereo and slightly lesser dynamic range on the new CD.
Drink All Day and Love Is Not Enough (To Stay Alive) may come from a BBC Radio 1 show called Sight & Sound In Concert, recorded on 17 December 1977.
Other songs performed during that radio show were Half Way There, Silver, Baby Love and White Shoe Weather and would have made a welcome addition to the CD track listing since the full show is available to collectors.
The remaining songs most probably originate from another BBC performance taped in 1975 when the duo were promoting the Harder To Live LP.
So we basically have a Splinter At The Beeb collection here!