Roddy Frame played Aztec Camera’s High Land, Hard Rain in full last night [December 1] at the first of three shows to mark the album’s 30th anniversary.

The show – at London’s Theatre Royal, Drury Lane – ran across two sets.

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The first set featured both Frame solo and accompanied by bassist Amulf Linder and drummer Adrian Mehan. It consisted of pre-High Land, Hard Rain recordings, rarities and b-sides – including a performance of “Green Jacket Grey“, an unreleased song long rumoured to have been the title track for an album Aztec Camera recorded for the Postcard label.

The set set featured Frame accompanied by a full band – Linder, Mehan, guitarist Tom Edwards and keyboardist Owen Parker – for a performance of High Land, Hard Rain in order. During introductions to the songs, Frame revealed the title for the album came from Highlands Avenue, Acton, where he was living while writing part of it. He also revealed that Aztec Camera’s first professional engagement was supporting The Teardrop Explodes on the day of Ian Curtis’ suicide.

Frame will continue his High Land, Hard Rain shows on Tuesday, December 3 at The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester and Wednesday, December 4 at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

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A vinyl-only reissue of High Land, Hard Rain is available now; a new Roddy Frame album is due for release in 2014.

Roddy Frame played:

FIRST SET

(Solo Acoustic)

Birth Of The True

How Men Are

Spanish Horses

Small World

The Spirit Shows

Just Like Gold

(Trio)

Green Jacket Grey

Orchid Girl

INTERMISSION

SECOND SET

High Land Hard Rain

Oblivious

The Boy Wonders

Walk Out to Winter

The Bugle Sounds Again

We Could Send Letters

Pillar to Post

Release

Lost Outside the Tunnel

Back on Board

Down the Dip

ENCORE

Killermont Street

Bigger Brighter Better

Somewhere In My Heart