The Joe Jackson Archive

Concerts recorded for radio or TV

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Note: The list of songs are those that were broadcast. This is not necessarily the complete set list of the concert in question.

Non-album tracks and covers only performed live are linked to the appropriate Archive page.

Concert: 4 April 2008 at World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA
Recorded by: US radio (WXPN)
Duration: 42 min
Broadcast: live on WXPN-FM ("Free at Noon Concert"), subsequently on NPR stations across the US.

Line-up:
Joe Jackson (vocals, grand piano)
Graham Maby (bass, backing vocals)
Dave Houghton (drums, backing vocals)

  1. Steppin' Out
  2. Too Tough
  3. Citizen Sane
  4. Wasted Time
  5. Rush Across The Road
  6. The Uptown Train
  7. Good Bad Boy
  8. Is She Really Going Out With Him?

Concert: 26 July 2006 at Pariser Platz, Stuttgart, Germany
Recorded by: German TV (SWR)
Duration: 59 min
Broadcast: 13 Oct 2006 on 3sat

Line-up:
Joe Jackson (vocals, grand piano)
Graham Maby (bass)
Dave Houghton (drums)

  1. Home Town
  2. Steppin' Out
  3. It's Different For Girls
  4. Another World
  5. Goin' Downtown
  6. On Your Radio
  7. Cancer
  8. Take It Like A Man
  9. You Can't Get What You Want
  10. One More Time
  11. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
  12. Is She Really Going Out With Him?
  13. A Slow Song

Concert: 30 May 2003 at Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam, NL
Recorded by: Dutch radio (BNN)
Duration: 55 min
Broadcast: 13 June 2003 on NL Radio 2 ("BNN for Life")
Note: Order of songs differs from concert

Line-up:
Joe Jackson (vocals, keyboards)
Graham Maby (bass)
Gary Sanford (guitar)
Dave Houghton (drums)

  1. Take It Like A Man
  2. Awkward Age
  3. Be My Number Two
  4. Girl
  5. Fairy Dust
  6. Fools In Love
  7. Love At First Light
  8. Steppin' Out
  9. Thugz 'R' Us
  10. Sunday Papers
  11. It's Different For Girls
  12. I'm The Man
  13. Is She Really Going Out With Him?

Concert: 24 April 2003 at Live Music Hall, Cologne, Germany
Recorded by: German radio (WDR)
Duration: 50 min
Broadcast: 25 May 2003 on WDR 2 ("Soundfiles")

Line-up:
Joe Jackson (vocals, keyboards)
Graham Maby (bass)
Gary Sanford (guitar)
Dave Houghton (drums)

  1. One More Time
  2. Take It Like A Man
  3. Still Alive
  4. On Your Radio
  5. Is She Really Going Out With Him?
  6. Love At First Light
  7. Any Major Dude Will Tell You
  8. Real Men
  9. Little Bit Stupid
  10. Sunday Papers
  11. It's Different For Girls
  12. I'm The Man

Concert: 18 Jan 2001 at Olympia, Paris, France
Recorded by: French radio (France Inter)
Duration: ?
Broadcast: live on France Inter

Line-up:
Joe Jackson (vocals, keyboards)
Graham Maby (bass and vocals)
Sue Hadjopoulos (percussion)
Allison Cornell (vocals, violin and keyboards)
Robert Rodriguez (drums)
Andy Ezrin (keyboards)
Catherine Bent (cello)

  1. Prelude
  2. Hell Of A Town
  3. You Can't Get What You Want
  4. Happyland
  5. Stranger Than You
  6. Another World
  7. Reelin' In The Years
  8. Is She Really Going Out With Him?
  9. Breaking Us In Two
  10. Home Town
  11. Be My Number Two
  12. For No One
  13. You Can't Be Too Strong
  14. It's Different For Girls
  15. Love Got Lost
  16. Real Men
  17. Stranger Than Fiction
  18. Glamour And Pain
  19. Target
  20. Just Because...
  21. Got The Time
  22. Stay/Steppin' Out

Concert: 14 Jan 2001 at CCH2, Hamburg, Germany
Recorded by: German radio (NDR)
Duration: ?
Broadcast: in several parts on NDR 2 ("Radiokonzert"), songs 1-10, 23-24 on 12 Feb, 10-13 on 5 March, 13-22 on 12 March 2001.

Line-up:
Joe Jackson (vocals, keyboards)
Graham Maby (bass and vocals)
Sue Hadjopoulos (percussion)
Allison Cornell (vocals, violin and keyboards)
Robert Rodriguez (drums)
Andy Ezrin (keyboards)
Catherine Bent (cello)

  1. Prelude
  2. Hell Of A Town
  3. You Can't Get What You Want
  4. Dear Mom
  5. Stranger Than You
  6. Another World
  7. Chinatown
  8. Is She Really Going Out With Him?
  9. Breaking Us In Two
  10. Be My Number Two
  11. Home Town
  12. For No One
  13. Drowning
  14. It's Different For Girls
  15. Love Got Lost
  16. Real Men
  17. Stranger Than Fiction
  18. Glamour And Pain
  19. Target
  20. Just Because...
  21. Got The Time
  22. Stay/Steppin' Out
  23. Blaze Of Glory
  24. A Slow Song

Concert: 25 March 2000 "Wall-to-Wall Kurt Weill" at Symphony Space, New York, NY, USA
Recorded by: WNYC-FM, New York
Duration: ca. 18 min (JJ segment)
Broadcast: live on WNYC-FM, New York

Joe's appearance was part of a 13-hour live event celebrating Kurt Weill's 100th birthday, which brought together classical, jazz and pop musicians, including Stan Ridgway, Nora York, Olu Dara and Ute Lemper.

Line-up:
Joe Jackson (vocals, piano)
for "Speak Low" plus Joy Askew (vocals), taped bass and percussion

  1. That's Him
  2. Speak Low (duet with Joy Askew)
  3. Mon Ami, My Friend

Concert: 2 April 1998 at Sendesaal des Hessischen Rundfunks, Frankfurt, Germany
Recorded by: German radio (HR)
Duration: 60 min
Broadcast: 31 May 1998 on HR 1 ("Schwarzweiß")

Line-up:
Joe Jackson (voc, keyb)
Elise Morris (keyb, vocals)
Valerie Vigoda (voc, violin, keyb)

  1. Prelude
  2. Fugue 1/More Is More
  3. Angel
  4. Tuzla
  5. Passacaglia/A Bud And A Slice
  6. Right
  7. The Bridge
  8. Fugue 2/Song Of Daedalus

Concert: 11 Dec 1997 at Musikhalle, Hamburg, Germany
Recorded by: German radio (NDR)
Duration: 90 min
Broadcast: 25 Dec 1997 on NDR 4 ("Nachtclub Extra")

Line-up:
Joe Jackson (voc, keyb)
Elise Morris (keyb, vocals)
Valerie Vigoda (voc, violin, keyb)

  1. Prelude
  2. Fugue 1/More Is More
  3. Angel
  4. Tuzla
  5. Passacaglia/A Bud And A Slice
  6. Right
  7. The Bridge
  8. Fugue 2/Song Of Daedalus
  9. Steppin' Out (lounge version)
  10. A Slow Song

Concert: 4 Sept 1997 at Sony Music Studios, West 54th Street, New York, NY, USA
Recorded by: US TV
Duration: 60 min
Broadcast: 4 Oct 1997 on PBS ("Sessions at West 54th")

Line-up:
Joe Jackson (voc, keyb)
Dawn Upshaw (vocals on "Angel" and "Tuzla")
Joy Askew (vocals on "Tuzla")
Brad Roberts (vocals on "A Bud And A Slice")
Jane Siberry (vocals on "The Bridge")
Elise Morris (keyb, vocals on "Angel")
Valerie Vigoda (keyb, backing vocals)
Sue Hadjopoulos (perc)
Mary Rowell (violin #1)
Todd Reynolds (violin #2)
Juliet Haffner (viola)
Bruce Wang (cello)
Dan Hickey (drums)
Kenny Aronoff (drums)
Marc Goldberg (bassoon on "A Bud And A Slice")
Robert Wagner (bassoon on "A Bud And A Slice")

  1. Prelude
  2. Fugue 1/More Is More
  3. Angel
  4. Tuzla
  5. Passacaglia/A Bud And A Slice
  6. Right
  7. The Bridge
  8. Fugue 2/Song Of Daedalus

Hosted by Chris Douridas
Directed by Jeb Brien

Concert: 3 May 1995 at House of Blues, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Recorded by: US TV
Duration: 29 min
Broadcast: 2 and 3 June 1995 on TBS

  1. Home Town
  2. Real Men
  3. Stranger Than Fiction
  4. The Man Who Wrote Danny Boy
  5. Ever After
  6. Breaking Us In Two
  7. You Can't Get What You Want

Concert: 30 Jan 1995 at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, UK
Recorded by: UK radio (BBC)
Duration: 56 min
Broadcast: 26 Aug 1995 on BBC Radio 2

  1. Lullaby (from tape)
  2. Home Town
  3. Real Men
  4. Stranger Than Fiction
  5. Sea Of Secrets
  6. The Man Who Wrote Danny Boy
  7. Ever After
  8. Only The Future
  9. Another World
  10. Chinatown
  11. Breaking Us In Two
  12. You Can't Get What You Want

Concert: 16 April 1983 at Grugahalle, Essen, Germany
Recorded by: German TV (WDR)
Duration: 95 min
Broadcast: live on ARD and via Eurovision to several countries ("Rockpalast" festival); simultaneously broadcast on Radio WDR 2

  1. On Your Radio
  2. Another World
  3. Sunday Papers
  4. Look Sharp!
  5. Breaking Us In Two
  6. Is She Really Going Out With Him? (a cappella version)
  7. Target
  8. T.V. Age
  9. Tuxedo Junction
  10. Steppin' Out
  11. Beat Crazy
  12. One More Time
  13. A Slow Song
  14. Motown Medley:
    (a) Uptight (Everything's Alright)
    (b) Tears Of A Clown
    (c) I'm Gonna Make You Love Me
    (d) How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
    (e) Heat Wave
    (f) Uptight (Everything's Alright) (reprise)
  15. I'm The Man

Concert: 23 Feb 1983 at Alabama, Munich, Germany
Recorded by: German TV (BR)

Broadcast: 9 July 1983 on BR 3 ("Rock aus dem Alabama")

  1. Sunday Papers (5:19)
  2. Look Sharp (2:51)
  3. Is She Really Going Out With Him? (4:18)
  4. A Slow Song (7:26)

Broadcast: 4 Sept 1983 on BR 3 ("Rock aus dem Alabama")

  1. Steppin' Out (4:18)
  2. Beat Crazy
  3. One More Time

Concert: 21 Feb 1983 at Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Recorded by: German TV (WDR)
Duration: 114 min
Broadcast: 1983 on "Rockpalast" programme

  1. On Your Radio
  2. Another World
  3. Sunday Papers
  4. Look Sharp!
  5. Breaking Us In Two
  6. Cancer
  7. Real Men
  8. Is She Really Going Out With Him? (a capella version)
  9. Cosmopolitan
  10. Target
  11. T.V. Age
  12. Tuxedo Junction
  13. Steppin' Out
  14. Beat Crazy
  15. One More Time
  16. A Slow Song
  17. Motown Medley:
    (a) Uptight (Everything's Alright)
    (b) Tears Of A Clown
    (c) I'm Gonna Make You Love Me
    (d) How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
    (e) Heat Wave
    (f) Uptight (Everything's Alright) (reprise)
  18. I'm The Man

Concert: 22 Jan 1983 at the Regal Theatre, Hitchin, England
Recorded by: UK TV (BBC)
Duration: 40 min
Broadcast: live on BBC 2 television and Radio 1 ("Sight and Sound - In Concert" series)

  1. On Your Radio
  2. Another World
  3. Sunday Papers
  4. Look Sharp!
  5. Is She Really Going Out With Him?
  6. Steppin' Out
  7. A Slow Song

Concert: 8 Aug 1982 at the Pavilion, Glasgow, Scotland
Recorded by: UK radio (?)
Duration: ?
Broadcast: on a show called "Dancing in the Bathtub" (?)

  1. One To One
  2. On Your Radio
  3. Sunday Papers
  4. Look Sharp!
  5. Cancer
  6. Real Men
  7. Is She Really Going Out With Him?
  8. Friday
  9. Breaking Us In Two
  10. Fools In Love
  11. Another World
  12. Target
  13. T.V. Age
  14. It's Different For Girls
  15. Steppin' Out
  16. Beat Crazy
  17. One More Time
  18. A Slow Song

Concert: 1982 at the Orpheum, Boston, MA, USA
Recorded by: BBC ?
Duration: 45 min ?
Broadcast: ?

  1. Sunday Papers
  2. Look Sharp!
  3. One More Time
  4. Different For Girls
  5. Steppin' Out
  6. Beat Crazy
  7. I'm The Man
  8. Breaking Us In Two
  9. Is She Really Going Out With Him?

Concert: 1982 in Boston, MA, USA
Recorded by: ?
Duration: 45 min ?
Broadcast: ?

  1. Look Sharp!
  2. Cancer
  3. Real Men
  4. Friday
  5. Breaking Us In Two
  6. Chinatown
  7. Target
  8. T.V. Age
  9. It's Different For Girls
  10. Steppin' Out

Concert: 24 July 1981 at Florentine Gardens, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Recorded by: Trans American Video / Pacific Video
Duration: 60 min
Broadcast: ?

  1. Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
  2. Jack, You're Dead
  3. Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby
  4. We The Cats (Shall Hep Ya)
  5. San Francisco Fan
  6. Stompin' At The Savoy
  7. You're My Meat
  8. What's The Use Of Getting Sober
  9. Tuxedo Junction
  10. Minnie The Moocher
  11. Five Guys Named Moe
  12. How Long Must I Wait For You
  13. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
  14. Jumpin' Jive

Video show produced and directed by Jerry Kramer
Edited by Joe Jackson and Ken Rudolph
Live sound recorded by The Record Plant
Engineered by Michael Beiriger
An A&M Presentation in association with Kramer/Rocklen

Concert: 27 Aug 1980 at Theatre Royal in Nottingham, UK
Recorded by: UK TV (ATV)
Broadcast: 1980? in ATV's "Rock Stage" series

Concert: 26 May 1980 at Pink Pop festival in Geleen, Netherlands
Recorded by: Dutch TV and radio (KRO, NOS)
Broadcast: June 1980 on TV (excerpts); 18 June 1980 (?) on the radio (complete concert)

The festival featured the following artists (in order of appearance): Garland Jeffreys, Raymond van het Groenewoud en de Centimeters, Joe Jackson Band, The Specials, Van Halen, The J.Geils Band, and The Jam.

Concert: 22 March 1980 in Eindhoven, Netherlands
Recorded by: Dutch radio (VARA)
Broadcast: at a later date

  1. On Your Radio
  2. Crime Don't Pay
  3. Pretty Boys
  4. Is She Really Going Out With Him?
  5. The Harder They Come (Jimmy Cliff cover)
  6. Friday
  7. Got The Time

Concert: 20 March 1980 in Bremen, Germany
Recorded by: German radio (Radio Bremen)
Broadcast: 19?? on RB4

  1. On Your Radio
  2. Friday
  3. Crime Don't Pay
  4. Kinda Kute
  5. Out Of Style
  6. The Harder They Come (Jimmy Cliff cover)
  7. Sunday Papers
  8. One More Time
  9. Fools In Love
  10. Is She Really Going Out With Him?
  11. Don't Wanna Be Like That
  12. I'm The Man
  13. I Can't Give You Anything (Ramones cover)

Concert: 14 March 1980 in Cologne, Germany
Recorded by: German TV (WDR)
Duration: 55 min
Broadcast: 1980 on "Rockpalast" programme

  1. On Your Radio
  2. Friday
  3. Mad At You
  4. Kinda Kute
  5. Out Of Style
  6. The Harder They Come
  7. Sunday Papers
  8. One More Time
  9. Fools In Love
  10. Is She Really Going Out With Him?
  11. Don't Wanna Be Like That
  12. I'm The Man

Concert: 26 Feb 1980 in London, UK
Recorded by: UK radio (Capital Radio)
Broadcast: at a later date

  1. I'm The Man
  2. Biology
  3. Beat Crazy
  4. Look Sharp!
  5. Crime Don't Pay
  6. Pretty Boys
  7. On Your Radio
  8. Friday
  9. Fit
  10. Don't Wanna Be Like That
  11. Got The Time

Concert: 29 Nov 1979 at Hatfield Polytechnic, UK
Recorded by: UK TV (BBC)
Duration: approx. 48 min
Broadcast: 1979 or 1980 on BBC 2 "Rock Goes To College" programme

  1. Look Sharp!
  2. Baby Stick Around
  3. Sunday Papers
  4. One More Time
  5. Friday
  6. It's Different For Girls
  7. Don't Wanna Be Like That
  8. Happy Loving Couples
  9. I'm The Man
  10. Got The Time
  11. Is She Really Going Out With Him?
  12. Come On

Concert: late Sept 1979 at the Palladium, New York, NY, USA
Recorded by: US radio (WNEW-FM New York) and TV (WNEW-TV New York)
Duration: approx. 70 min
Broadcast: live on WNEW-FM and WNEW-TV New York (radio/TV simulcast), also on WMMR Philadelphia

  1. Look Sharp!
  2. Friday
  3. One More Time
  4. Geraldine And John
  5. (Do The) Instant Mash
  6. Get That Girl
  7. Sunday Papers
  8. Baby Stick Around
  9. Amateur Hour
  10. Is She Really Going Out With Him?
  11. Kinda Kute
  12. Don't Wanna Be Like That
  13. Happy Loving Couples
  14. I'm The Man
  15. Got The Time
  16. Throw It Away
  17. I Can't Give You Anything
  18. Ain't That A Shame

Concert: 1979 at Hullabaloo, Rensselaer, NY, USA
Recorded by: US radio (WQBK-FM)
Broadcast: on WQBK-FM in Rensselaer, NY

Concert: 26 April 1979 at The Bayou, Washington, DC, USA
Recorded by: US radio (WHFS-FM)
Broadcast: on WHFS-FM

Concert: 21 April 1979 at the Bottom Line, New York, NY, USA
Recorded by: US radio (WNEW-FM)
Broadcast: on WNEW-FM, New York, NY

  1. One More Time
  2. Pretty Girls
  3. Look Sharp!
  4. Sunday Papers
  5. Baby Stick Around
  6. It's Different For Girls
  7. Fools In Love
  8. Is She Really Going Out With Him?
  9. Happy Loving Couples
  10. I'm The Man
  11. Throw It Away
  12. Got The Time
  13. Come On
  14. Ain't That A Shame

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