Bill Nelson - Metaphysical
This bootleg CD contains 22 tracks, 6 of which are from Luminous.  The other 16 tracks are unreleased.  Here is the track listing, those from Luminous are listed in italic: 

1. Two Hearts Beating
2. Waiting for the Midnight Chime
3. Human Rodeo
4. This is Something
5. It's a Miracle
6. True Reflection
7. Believe it or Not
8. Wings of Wonder
9. The Way
10. Forever
11. She's Got Me Floating
12. Burning Down
13. Another Girl
14. That's Me All Over
15. Let's Go Naked
16. I'll Be Everywhere
17. Warm Bodies
18. Certain Feelings
19. Hold On to Your Heart
20. She's So Metaphysical
21. Language of the Birds
22. Bill's Answerphone Message

Bill Nelson - Flowers In The Night
This bootleg CD contains 11 tracks from the Blue Moons And Laughing Guitars era and 4 tracks that are out-takes from the After The Satellite Sings sessions or era.  Blue Moons era tracks are denoted by (BM) while After The Satellite Sings are denoted by (ATSS):

1. The Ringing Song (BM)
2. Golden Balloon (ATSS)
3. Nice to Know You (BM)
4. Shaker (BM)
5. Time and Distance (ATSS)
6. God Man Slain (alternate version, BM)
7. Heaven in Your Mind (BM)
8. Say What You Mean (BM)
9. Another Happy Day (ATSS)
10. A Train I Never Boarded (BM)
11. Float Away (BM)
12. When She Falls (BM)
13. If Only (BM)
14. Flowers in the Night (BM)
15. Sunset and You (ATSS)

Be Bop Deluxe - Music Arcade Blues
This is sold often via mail order or is supposedly released in Japan.  It's not official anywhere.  

Bill and Ian Nelson: "Household Gods" Thornes Park, Wakefield, June 9, 1990

1. Pulse Bongo Gothic
2. B-Movie Bug Boy
3. Astral Jazz
4. Moon Rocket Highway
5. Trance & Transcendent
6. Working Girl in Wonderland
7. Satyrical
8. Big Bliss Burnout
9. Bird Drum Heaven
10. Untitled
11. Welcome to the Sex-O-Mat
12. Nude Shuffle Substitute
13. Hippy House Blues

Bill Nelson - The Imagination Chamber (instrumental set)

Recorded 16/3/83, dominion theatre, London 

on goose recordings (tape)

1978
Be Bop Deluxe, Drastic Plastic tour
45 minutes. 
This is the show below which was also filmed for the Sight And Sound In Concert series. The timing error comes from tape traders who'd list tapes to the nearest 5 mins.

January 19, 1978
Be Bop Deluxe - Golders Green Hippodrome 
40 minutes. 
Broadcast on BBC TV and on BBC Radio 1. 
Tracks are - New Precision*/Superenigmatix*/Possession*/Dangerous Stranger*/Islands Of The Dead*/Lovers Are Mortal/Panic In The World*. This set, minus Lovers Are Mortal, appears on a BBC Transcription Disc (# CN 3118/S) coupled with a Tom Robinson Band set on the other side. Superenigmatix is listed as Superenismatix. Also syndicated to BFBS stations on reel-to-reel tape. And, of course, some tracks are on the Radioland CD.

February 3, 1978
New Theatre, Oxford, UK 
30 minutes
Quality: F
Radio DRASTIC PLASTIC tour

February 3, 1978
New Theatre, Oxford, UK 
40 minutes
Quality: VG
Radio upgrade/more than other version

February 6, 1978
John Peel Session 
22 minutes 
Quality: G/F
Radio plus first single

February 6, 1978
John Peel Session 
15 minutes
Quality: VG+
Radio LOVE IN FLAMES', 'POSSESSION', 'PANIC IN WORLD'

March 31, 1978
Boston, MA 
45 minutes
Quality: VG
Audience beware several dropouts, includes 'SPEED OF THE WIND'

April 26, 1978
BBC, Hippodrome, UK 
45 minutes 
Quality: EX+
Radio BBC rock hour -- 'truly tremendous'
New Precision, Superenigmatix, Possession, Dangerous Stranger, Island of the Dead, Panic in the World, Lovers are Mortal, ??, Blazing Apostles.

February 12, 1977
Leicester, UK 
20 minutes
Quality:  G+
Unknown source, De Montford Hall

1977 BBC U. of Ca-San Diego Soundboard A 1-CD 73 minutes
Life in the Air age, Sister Seagull, 3rd Floor Heaven, Blazing Apostles, Maid in Heaven, Kiss of Light, Adventures in A Yorkshire Landscape, Fair Exchange, Ships in the Night, Modern Music, Dancing in the Moonlight, Honeymoon on Mars, Modern Music, Lost in the Neon World, New Precision, Superengmatix, Possession, Dangerous Stranger, Island of the Dead, Panic in the World.

Septemeber, 15, 1977
Santa Monica, CA 
115 minutes
Quality: F
Audience

January 15, 1976
Be Bop Deluxe - Paris Theatre, London
A BBC In Concert recording. 
Syndicated again to all BFBS stations on reel-to-reel and pressed onto a BBC Transcription Disc (# CN 2505/S) coupled with a set by Sailor. Tracks were - Life In The Air-Age*/Sister Seagull*/Ships In The Night/Maid In Heaven/Third Floor Heaven*/Blazing Apostles*.

1976 Sweden 30 VG
Unknown live in the studio (?)

February 5, 1976
City Hall, Sheffield, UK 
20 minutes
Quality: F
Audience

February 14, 1976
Radio One 
45 minutes 
Quality: VG+
Radio

February 14, 1976
Radio One 
45 minutes 
Quality: EX
Radio

March 9, 1976
Detroit 
60 minutes 
Quality: VG
Unknown with short Bill Nelson interview -- he speaks !

March 11, 1976
Music Hall, Higganum 
45 minutes 
Quality: G
Audience with pathetic sing-a-long for 'JET SILVER & THE DOLLS'

March 12, 1976
Philadelphia, PA 
55 minutes
Quality: G+
Radio Scottish Rite Cathedral, incomplete

May 12, 1976
Riviera Theater, Chicago, IL 
50 minutes
Quality: G
Radio Killer version of 'BLAZING APOSTLES'

July 6, 1976 
BBC broadcast, London 
30 minutes 
Quality: VG+
Radio with AIR AGE, SLEEP, YORK, SISTER, & APOSTLES

September 18, 1976
Wimbledon Studios Super Sonic 
18 minutes
Quality: G
Unknown starts with inst. part of "BLAZING APOSTLES" from other concert

September 20, 1976
Glasgow, Scotland 
85 minutes
Quality: G
Audience, Apollo Theater

October 2, 1976
Be Bop Deluxe
Hammersmith Odeon, BBC. 
This show was syndicated world-wide on reel-to-reel tape. The entire broadcast consisted of - Maid In Heaven*/Bring Back the Spark/Kiss Of Light*/Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape*/Fair Exchange*/Ships In The Night*/Twilight Capers/Modern Music Suite*/Blazing Apostles (full version). Some bits are on the Radioland CD. The full show was only available on the reel-to-reel. I'm uncertain as to the existence of a BBC Transcription Disc for this show. I've only ever seen three and this wasn't one of them.

October 2, 1976
Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK 
80 minutes
Quality: VG+
Radio upgrade/more than other version

October 2, 1976
Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK 
55 minutes 
Quality: VG+
Radio (originally had as 3/77 but is another version of 10/2/76)

October 2, 1976
Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK 
30 minutes 
Quality: G
Radio 'MODERN MUSIC' songs

October 1976
Columbus, OH
80 minutes
Quality: G+
Radio with 25 minute "Rock Around the World" interview/music

October 1976
Columbus, OH 
60 minutes 
Quality: G
Audience other source better

10/20/76 Hammersmith Odeon, London FM: A 1-CD 50 min.
Kiss of Light, Adventures in A Yorkshire Landscape, Fair Exchange, Ships in the Night, Twilight Capers, Modern Music, Bring Back the Spark, Piece of Mind, Stage Whispers , ??, Maid in Heaven.

11/28/76 Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK 45 VG+
Unknown where's Bill Nelson when we need him now ?

12/06/76 Calderone Hall, NY 50 VG+
Radio tremendous version of 'TERMINAL STREET'

1974/75/76
various live etc. 
50 minutes 
Quality: VG
Unknown duplicate of other sources, maybe an extra song or 2

1975 
London, UK 
25 minutes
Quality: VG+
Unknown must for Be Boppers

1975/76 
Studio 
25 minutes 
Quality: VG+
Radio awesome studio outtakes (BBC)

March 5, 1975
Sheffield, UK 
55 minutes
Quality: G
Audience Polytechnic Institute

March 24, 1975
Leeds, UK 
5 minutes
Quality: F
Unknown

June 14, 1975
Hippodrome, London, UK 
30 minutes 
Quality: EX
Radio

June 14, 1975
Be Bop Deluxe
London Hippodrome
Two tracks
Can't confirm the date or the venue but again, this was recorded by the BBC for the In Concert series. Syndicated to BFBS stations only on reel-to-reel the show consisted of the following - Stage Whispers/Third Floor Heaven/Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape/Sister Seagull/Piece Of Mine/Maid In Heaven/Axe Victim.

January 3, 1974 
Leeds, UK 
10 minutes 
Quality: F
Unknown

1974
Unknown 
45 minutes 
Quality: F
Audience with 'Sweet Jane'

March 1, 1974
Polytechnic Institute, Leeds 
70 minutes
Quality: G
Audience with 'NO TRAINS TO HEAVEN'

May 9, 1974
John Peel Session 
17 minutes 
Quality: VG+
Radio MILL ST.', '15th JULY', '3rd FLOOR', 'YORKSHIRE'

May 9, 1974
John Peel Session 
15 minutes 
Quality: VG
Radio upgrade/more than other version

May 9, 1974
John Peel Session 
10 minutes
Quality:  VG
Radio partial show

July 18, 1974
Black Swan Club, Sheffield 
80 minutes 
Quality: F
Audience with version of Lou Reed's 'SWEET JANE' !!!

1973/74
Top Gear/BBC 
35 minutes 
Quality: VG
Radio we want more !

September, 1973 
BBC 
15 minutes 
Quality: VG
Radio

Bill has announced that he has a tape of Be Bop Deluxe's first gig (as the original name Flagship or as Be Bop Deluxe?)

thx to Jon, John, and Tony

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