Stormy Monday Selection #73

Islands (live with studio vocal). It's Stormy's first selection for 2026, bringing us another mix of the old with the new, with this really beautiful take of Islands. Boz Burrell’s studio vocal comes from the album recording sessions at Command Studios in September 1971, and is backed by the 2018 lineup, recorded 47 years later on the Uncertain Times tour, performing to a large audience in the...

Double Duo Debut on Nugs.

12th & Porter, Nashville. Just dropped are the four intimate club shows from May of 2000, streaming for the first time on @nugsnet. 12th & Porter in Nashville was the host of the first shows by the Double Duo lineup, warming up for tours across Europe, Japan, and North America in support of The ConstruKction of Light album. Hear these latest uploads, and nearly 200 exclusive King Crimson...

On Fulham Palace Road.

Hugh’s Archive Deep Dive: 17 If you are planning to attend the Beat concert of 80s Crimson music at the Eventim Apollo in June, you might care to take a 10-minute stroll down the Fulham Palace Road to the corner of Averill Street to take a look at the place where it all began. Or maybe even have something to eat before the show at the Ottoman Turkish restaurant that now occupies the location...

2020 Tour Box download.

The Elements Of King Crimson - 2020 Tour Box. download here. A welcome addition to the downloadable catalogue. The 2020 Tour Box was released during the Covid 19 pandemic, for the tour that never happened. It lists dates in North America for June and July. These were postponed until the following year when lockdown restrictions were lifted, and a modified and extended tour was possible.  Among...

A Nugs Update

We are happy to clear up some confusion around the renewal of subscriptions at Nugs for our 1000 Club members. Some of you have reported receiving emails quoting a renewal price of $149.99. We can confirm that 1000 Club members are set to receive automatic annual renewals at $0.00 . For any further help with renewal, please contact:  help.nugs.net. For more on this and the many other benefits...


Stormy’s Epitaph Mix.

It's Mister Stormy’s final release in 2025. For this month's selection, he has gone back to the first King Crimson lineup and taken Greg Lake’s vocals from the Wessex Studios multitrack recordings of Epitaph, and mixed them with the most recent lineup performing live at the Aylesbury Waterside Theatre in 2016. King Crimson in Aylesbury, September 2016. Download here: Epitaph (live with...

Christmas 1975.

Greg Lake released I Believe in Father Christmas. King Crimson had officially ceased to exist after the recording of Red, although unknown to them at the time, 1975 would actually turn out to be the beginning of an interregnum for the band. Christmas fifty years ago would find several of the Crimsons at a transitional point in their lives, and is perhaps best remembered for a Christmas song...

Tokyo download problem fixed.

King Crimson, Tokyo, December 8, 2015. Thanks to several of our listeners who have been in touch to alert us that there was an issue with part of the December 8th FLAC download from the latest 2015 tour release.  We are happy to announce that Mr Stormy has now fixed the problem. So please go ahead and download again and enjoy the Crimsons in full on their second night at Bunkamura Orchard Hall...

Happy Birthday Adrian!

King Crimson’s guitarist and vocalist turns 76 today. Adrian Belew joined King Crimson in 1981, having previously worked with Frank Zappa, David Bowie and Talking Heads, and appears on Discipline, Beat and Three Of A Perfect Pair, as well as with later lineups the 90s Double Trio, the 2000s Double Duo and the 2008 reunion. He has also had an extensive solo career and has made numerous session...


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