Audio: Luna in London supporting The Velvet Underground

Whilst going through my cassettes preparing the next few posts for the my record collection series of posts I came across a recording that I had both forgotten I had, and had never digitised. This is an audience recording of Luna’s set at The Forum in London while on tour with The Velvet Underground.

'The Velvet Underground plus support' ticket

I’ve digitised the show and am currently seeding it on bittorrent site Dimeadozen (you need to be registered, and to have a bittorrent client, to download it).

It’s a fair recording of the show, given that it’s of a support act in a large venue. As a taster, here are Luna playing Slash Your Tires:

Luna - Slash Your Tires (The Forum, London, 5th June 1993)

Source: Luna - 5th June 1993 - Forum, London, UK

Dean wrote about the show in his tour diary:

Tonight’s show is at the Forum in London, capacity of about 1800. Lots of celebrities, like Chrissie Hynde and Peter Gabriel. Wow. I was hoping for Mick Ronson. The Velvets do a killer version of “Hey Mr. Rain” which must be about twelve minutes long. They’re also doing a new song in the encores, “Coyote.” After the show, we go back to the Columbia Hotel and sit in the bar.

Luna / VU tour diary – 5 June 1993

I’ll be writing about the tape, and I guess the show, in the series in a few weeks time and will share it again then, in the meantime, go grab it from DIME.

I’ve previously shared my recording of the headline show that Luna played a couple of days earlier.