Got momentarily excited when I saw this CD on Amazon (due for release in ten days time):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Showing-Out-Rox ... roxy+music

However, it looks like the radio broadcast which has been issued several times under different titles, including more than once as Concerto.

I'm not even sure that Oakland was the correct location; wasn't it revealed to be Denver?

Anyway, one only for the completists among us, I suspect...

This latest release is Oakland, not Denver. The Oakland gig was broadcast at the time on KSAN-FM, and has circulated for some years now from the 15 ips master reels.

It's another in a series of grey market releases from Carlton Sandercock's Easy Action label; the same people who put out the Manchester Manifesto CD/DVD set a couple of years back.

Thanks for the clarification, Peanut.

So is this the first semi-official release of the Oakland '79 broadcast?

I've always been led to believe that all previous releases (e.g. Concerto, Live In America, Concert Classics etc.) were from the Denver gig (regardless of what the packaging stated, which was often Oakland...) and that some of them simply had two Oakland tracks (i.e. Mother Of Pearl & Editions Of You*) bolted on to the end as fillers. The VRM albums section reinforces this belief.

(*These tracks seem to appear in the correct part of the set list in this latest release.)

Further confirmation or clarification would be gratefully received. Thanks.

Easy Action's website lists this new release as being taken from the Oakland broadcast:

http://www.easyaction.co.uk/artists/product/509-roxy-music-showing-out-live-concert-oakland

Easy Action already released the Denver show as Concerto, so I doubt they would make the mistake of releasing the same material masquerading as Oakland:

http://www.easyaction.co.uk/artists/product/60-roxy-music-concerto-cd

Carlton P. Sandercock, who owns the Easy Action label, has specialised in grey market releases for over 20 years. He was one of the key players behind the opening of the MainMan archives (Bowie at Santa Monica '72, etc.) in 1994-95, so he has form in this arena. Whatever you may think of grey market releases, Sandercock knows his onions.

Unless JO'B knows something I don't about this forthcoming release, I'd say his entry on the main site is incorrect:

http://www.vivaroxymusic.com/albums_112.php

To answer your question, I believe this is the first semi-legit release of the Oakland show. All others (Concerto, etc.) are taken from the Denver broadcast.

Showing Out is in the shops now. I just picked up a copy this afternoon, from my local HMV, for £9.99.

I can confirm that it's definitely the Oakland show. It is trimmed slightly from the version that circulates from the master reels -- Bill Graham's introduction is missing, for example -- presumably to make it fit on one CD. But all the songs are present, and, without doing an A/B comparison, it sounds decent enough.