“There are few bands I’d rather see than the Edgar Broughton Band,” John Peel once declared in his Disc & Music Echo column. Such fandom wasn’t difficult to understand. Apart from their raw theatricality, EBB were an underground outfit who stood for the community, sounded like a wild British iteration of Beefheart and saw music as an agent of social change.
Beginning with a spot on Peel’s Top Gear radio show in January 1969, EBB recorded nine sessions and two In Concert shows for the BBC over a four-year period. This impressive set features all of those surviving appearances, documenting a group during a clamorous creative peak that spanned psych-weird debut Wasa Wasa and 1973’s more expansive Oora.
