Originally released 1982 Statik Records (UK) and Line GmbH (Germany). Tracks 1-12 recorded live at the Collegiate Theatre (now the Bloomsbury Theatre), London June 1979. Engineered by Bill Price. Produced by TR. Sleeve photo David Corio. With special thanks to Noel Greig, Jill Posener and Barbara Norden. This release digitally remastered by Jay Burnett at NODE recording, London 1997 with the addition of bonus tracks 13-16.

CHARLIE MORGAN - drums
IAN PARKER - piano
GRAHAM COLLIER - double bass
JEFF DALY - saxophone
JEFF SHARKEY - electric guitar
TOM ROBINSON - guitar/bass
The Deviant Wreckords Women's Voice Choir on "Stand Together"

About this album...
No gay performer has ever been quite so loved by lesbians and gay men in this country as Tom Robinson was in the late 70s and early 80s. Nobody else has even spoken to our lives - and of his life - with quite the same directness and force. As a rock star in 1979 he went out on a limb with a series of intimate concerts for Gay Pride Week which brought together all the gay material EMI wouldn't/couldn't/didn't let him release elsewhere. The queer audience was ecstatic: Tom hadn't sold out, he'd come home. For those of us who went to those concerts, it was an inspiring, life-changing experience. Listening to the same material nearly twenty years on, there are moments which make you wince at their naivety; but there are far more where you wonder at the freshness of a phrase or image, the haunting turn of a tune. For any poof or dyke interested in the landmarks on our road from illegality to trendiness, this CD is essential listening. Or for anyone interested in good songwriting. Because the other way of looking at it is that TR is a timeless songwriter who happens to be queer. His queerness was - and is - our gain.

Peter Scott-Presland
London 1997