Au Pairs - Live In Berlin 1983

Rebooted...Originally posted November 25, 2014
A special thanks to Dave Sez for turning me on to this band!

Au Pairs - Live In Berlin 1983

Soundboard @320

{Out of Print}

Track List:
1. Diet
2. Headache for Michelle
3. Dear John
4. Love song
5. Set Up
6. Inconvenience
7. Armagh
8. Repitition
9. We're So Cool
10. Cum Again
11. Peace of My Heart  

 

 

Other Au Pairs boots are available. If you find a dead link leave a comment on the post.

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Berlin '83

 

Au Pairs - Pinkpop 1982, Tonmodern 1983

Au Pairs - Pinkpop Festival
Sittard-Geleen, Netherlands

1982, May the 31st

AUD > ??? > CDR > EAC Secure > FLAC Frontend(8)
39:38 minutes - Sound: Very Good (+)

How about another helping of Au Pairs?  OK then, here we have
another well recorded festival appearance.  The vocals are
intermittently a tad muffled, and there is also very occasional
bass distortion - both issues are very minor and this is an
enjoyable listen.
Cheers, Cyrus

Set List:
01. Inconvenience   3:09
02. Headache (for Michelle)   5:46
03. That's When It's Worth It   3:46
04. Don't Lie Back   3:07
05. Set-Up   3:35
06. Sex Without Stress   3:58
07. America   3:25
08. Dear John   2:59
09. It's Obvious   6:36
10. We're So Cool   3:15

All notes, photos, music and thanks go to Cyrus, Dave Sez and DRC4

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Au Pairs - Tonmodern Festival, Rote Fabrik
Zürich, Switzerland
11.03.1983 FLAC
DRS 2 Radio @flac

Line-up:
The line-up is probably the same as at the gig in Hamburg's Markthalle on 17th February
Lesley Woods - guitar/vocals
Paul Foad - guitar/vocals
Nick O'Connor - bass/keyboards (replacing Jane Munro)
Pete Hammond - drums
Cara Tivey - keyb
Graeme Hamilton - trumpet
Jayne Morris - perc


Set List:
intro
America
[banter]
set up / inconvenience
sex without stress
she runs with honey
lion love
intact / stepping out of line
headache
beast of a machine
it's obvious
untitled
fiasco / she runs with honey
lion love
untitled / hokka he ha

Thanks to Nadir_53 for sharing this recording on Dime.

Thanks go to Dave Sez and DRC4 for photos, notes and making this available.

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Other Au Pairs Shows Here!!

Au Pairs...Still Kicking!!

In case you missed it...
A Dave Sez contribution!
 

Au Pairs - Birmingham Golden Eagle 

September 13, 1980 Birmingham, UK  

Soundboard @ FLAC
 

The Au Pairs were a British post-punk band that formed in Birmingham in 1978 and lasted until 1983. They produced two studio albums and three singles. Their songs 

were said to have "contempt for the cliches of contemporary sexual politics" and their music has been compared to the Gang of Four and the Young Marble Giants. The band was led by Lesley Woods, who was once described as "one of the most striking women

in British rock". ~Wiki

From the Dave Sez archive, thanks to the great StevieD !

Set List:  
Come Again  
Diet  
You  
Repetition
It's Obvious
Armagh  
Unfinished Business

 Birmingham Music Archive


   

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Au Pairs - Live Alcuin College, York, UK 1981

A Dave Sez contribution...

photo by Paul M. Wright

Au Pairs - Live Alcuin College
University of York
York, UK
November 7, 1981
@ FLAC AUD A-


Set List:
01 Breakdown
02 Set Up
03 Pretty Boys
04 Armagh
05 Instant Touch
06 Headache For Michelle
07 Inconvenience
08 Repetition
09 (Take Another Little) Piece of My Heart
10 We're So Cool
11 It's Obvious
12 Diet
13 Come Again
14 (Paranoia In) America
15 Dear John

Au Pairs:
Lesley Woods (vocals, guitar);
Paul Foad (guitar, cello, background vocals);
Jane Munro (bass);
Pete Hammond (drums, percussion).

Alcuin College '81

Au Pairs - Live Lund, Sweden 1982

A Dave Sez Contribution...

 Au Pairs - Lund, Sweden 1982
Audience Recording B+ @FLAC

From the Dave Sez archive:
The last of the Au Pairs posts, live in Sweden on 23rd September 1982, six months before the group folded. Being an audience recording, this is of lesser quality than the previous FM or soundboard sources, but is the best of the recordings from 1982 and includes every track from "Sense and Sensuality" except Tongue In Cheek and Fiasco. Their last recorded gig, probably in Vienna in February 1983, is available at http://433rpm.blogspot.com/2010/09/au-pairs-live-1983-tape-1983.html, and featured several new compositions, live versions of the demos they recorded for a third album that never saw the light of day ...

Set List:
That's When It's Worth It
Instant Touch
Inconvenience
Headache (For Michelle)
Intact
Sex Without Stress
Shakedown
Don't Lie Back
Set Up
Diet
Steppin' Out Of Line
We're So Cool
America
Dear John / It's Obvious

Thanks to StevieD !

 Lund '82

Au Pairs - Berkeley Square Theatre 1981

Rebooted...

Au Pairs - Berkeley Square Theatre

Berkeley CA. 1981
Soundboard A- @ FLAC

From the Dave Sez archive:
The Au Pairs on the 3rd October 1981 from the Berkeley Square Theatre, Berkeley, California at the end of their American tour.

Set List:

Shakedown
Set Up
Diet
We're So Cool
Headache (For Michele)
Armagh
Instant Touch
Inconvenience
Intact
Repetition
It's Obvious

Thanks to StevieD !

Berkeley '81

Au Pairs - Live Groningen, Holland 1981

Rebooted...

Au Pairs - Groningen, Holland 1981

FM Source @ Flac

From the Dave Sez archive: a short but sweet one - a Dutch FM broadcast of the Au Pairs on 23rd August 1981 at Sterrenbos, Groningen, A-, FLAC.

Set List:
Headache for Michelle
Inconvenience
Dear John
Intact
It's Obvious

Thanks to darkcircleroom4.blogspot.com!


Groningen '81

Au Pairs - Live Rotterdam New Pop Festival 1981

Au Pairs - New Pop Festival 1981

Rotterdam, Netherlands
Soundboard @ FLAC

From the Dave Sez archive: the first of two Dutch broadcasts of the Au Pairs, this one at the Rotterdam New Pop Festival on 16th August 1981 was filmed by Dutch TV - footage can be found on youtube.

Set List:
Diet
Armagh
Shakedown
Headache (For Michelle)
Dear John
Inconvenience
It's Obvious
Intact

Thanks to StevieD!

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Rotterdam '81

Au Pairs - Live + Demos

A Dave Sez contribution...
Updated!

Au Pairs - Balsal Heath
Birmingham, 1981

@ Flac

Set List:

We're So Cool
Unfinished Business
Set Up
Diet
Dear John
It's Obvious
We're So Cool
Repetition
Headache (For Michele)

Thanks to StevieD !

Bonus from the Dave Sez archive:

Beat Of A Machine
Lion Love

Two demos only released on out-of-print 1993 RPM CD 16-track release of "Sense and Sensuality", see http://www.discogs.com/Au-Pairs-Sense-Sensuality/release/391473. They were excluded from Castle's 2002 10-track CD re-release, which corrected earlier speed problems.

The four remaining 1983 demos are included on the 2006 Au Pairs anthology, available in FLAC/320 at http://onlythelonelymusic.blogspot.com/2013/11/au-pairs-stepping-out-of-line-anthology.html. These two tracks would only otherwise be recorded at the Au Pairs' last gig, probably in February 1983 in Vienna, available here: http://433rpm.blogspot.com/2010/09/au-pairs-live-1983-tape-1983.html.

Thanks to saltyka!


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Balsal Heath & Demos

Dojoji - Dutch mini-LP with Lesley Woods from Au Pairs

A Dave Sez contribution...

Dojoji - Dutch mini-LP 
with Lesley Woods on vocals on all tracks 

[vinyl rip @320]

Track List:
A1  Quincunx (Look Out) 6:41  
A2  Peh Peh Ook 6:06  
B1  Fer Micello (Leaving Her Dreams Behind) 3:16  
B2  Kiets Lorren (Runs With Honey) 4:37  
B3  Katchakali 6:38  
 
NB: Track B2 is a reprise of an Au Pairs song. The lyrics to tracks A1 and B1 to B3 are by Lesley Woods. All artwork included. On Dojoji, see http://www.discogs.com/artist/815689-Dojoji.

Thanks to missmondo, and BigScott!

Dojoi '84