Tom Robinson Band: The Anthology 1977-1979 (CD/DVD)

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2013 marks the 35th Anniversary of the still widely admired Power In The Darkness album release by the Tom Robinson Band.
EMI proudly present a Complete Anthology, for the first time ever, of everything released by TRB during their classic period signed to EMI (1977-1979) plus a wealth of previously unreleased bonus material.
This 3CD+1DVD set is released on Monday July 1st 2013.

Contains the complete Power In The Darkness (UK No.4, 1978) and TRB TWO (UK No.18, 1979) albums plus the non-album single / E.P tracks. Previously unreleased material includes: John Peel BBC Radio Sessions, BBC Sight & Sound Concert Live at the Golders Green Hippodrome 1978 audio, BBC Radio 'In Concert' Wycombe Town Hall 1979 audio, first TRB TV Appearance on LWT Lunchtime Show 1977 video, complete entire Granada TV Documentary 'Too Good To Be True?’ 1979 (filmed 1978) video, TRB single promo videos. The extended booklet contains: Intro by Tom Robinson, sleeve notes by David Quantick, rare and previously unseen photos.

Digitally remastered at Abbey Road Studios from original analogue tapes.



The DVD features an incredible Granada documentary that includes many full length concert performances.
Also of note is the band's first appearances on Janet Street Porter's Lunchtime Show on LWT in 1977.

DVD
1. Granada TV Documentary ‘Too Good to Be True?’
2. ’2-4-6-8 Motorway (LWT, Janet Street-Porter Lunchtime Show, July 1977 (First TRB TV Appearance)
3. (Sing If You’re) Glad to Be Gay (LWT, Janet Street-Porter Lunchtime Show, July 1977 (First TRB TV Appearance))
4. Winter of ’79 (Live Demo Video)Don’t Take No For An Answer (Promo Video)
5. Don’t Take No For An Answer (Promo Video)Black Angel (Promo Video)
6. Black Angel (Promo Video)Bully for You (Promo Video)
7. Bully for You (Promo Video)

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There's also a 'too good to be true' numbered limited edition set including tickets to the anniversary concert at a really reasonable price
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What's interesting about this is though they used BBC audio recordings, there is no BBC TV footage. Earlier such EMI DVD packages generally focused entirely on BBC TV materials and zero ITV stuffs since EMI and the BBC had some special agreement between them to use BBC TV material. I see there is a mixture of BBC and ITV visual materials on the Doctor Feelgood set though, so why no BBC visuals here seems a bit odd. Not a grumble by the way - I much welcome ITV pop materials since the BBC stuff - generally TOTP performances - is generally all out there.

Just hope this means we'll see more rare ITV music material in the future.

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I put this question to Tom and the expected answer was this Phillip

Sheer cost - it cost an arm and a leg to get the rights to the hour-long Granada TV documentary on TRB. But that material has never been seen on UK TV since 1979, whereas the TOTP appearances have all been screened in the last 6 months. So that's where we spent our budget - we figured people would prefer that more in-depth material about the band than just us miming on TOTP again.

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Thanks for asking Tom!

He made absolutely the right decision - definitely worth using the budget on something rare than stuff the fans have seen and already own.