Squeeze – 27 November 1982 – live at Jamaica Sunsplash

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squeezeliveblog says:

9 March 2010 at 10:15 am

You can download the gig at:

http://squeezelive.blogspot.com/2010/01/squeeze-jamaica-1982.html

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Rob Patterson says:

20 July 2011 at 8:02 am

This was not Jamaica Sunsplash. It was the Jamaica World Music Festival, one of the strangest events I’ve ever been too. The line-up was bizarre yet wonderful. Reggae acts like Rita Marley & The Wailers, Black Uhuru, Yellowman. Punk/new wave bands like Squeeze, The Clash, English Beat and Joe Jackson, And The Beach Boys, Grateful Dead and, of all people, Skeeter Davis (who apparently was rather popular in JA), It was held in Montego Bay at “The Bob Marley Memorial Performing Amphitheater,” which was basically this place they’d bulldozed into this flat field of sandy dirt and rocks and erected a temporary stage. It was held over Thanksgiving weekend as a way to maybe get American college kids and tourists to come over to JA over the holiday. As that it was a miserable failure, (I went as a music journalist on a press junket with all expenses paid and room at a 5-star resort just outside Mo Bay.) My joke about it was always: “What if they gave a music festival and nobody came.” Which made it a delight to attend, as no crowds, a few of my favorite bands. Looking at the set list from the link above, yeah, I recall Glenn singing the shit out of “Tracks of My Tears” and a nifty “Time Is Tight” (that I taped on my Walkman and loved listening to for some time after. The whole festival was taped, and who knows where they tapes are now. About a year and later I saw them stacked in a room of this video production company that also at the time managed Ron Wood in this expensive brownstone on New York City’s Upper East Side. The music was marvelous. Would be great to hear it all again. The Squeeze lads were all very down and gloomy after the show as it was, for then at least, their last. Somewhere I still have a pic of me with John Bentley and Don Snow backstage I’ll have to dig out and send to be posted here.

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John says:

15 April 2017 at 2:01 am

I was there!

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Gary says:

21 June 2023 at 2:23 am

Is this the one that was referred to as their final show when they split the first time?

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