Live at the Jelly Jamboree

Milkshake Moustache’s first and only live album was performed at recorded at the Jelly Jamboree in 1979. The festival was held every year in the fields surrounding Melton Mowbray. The band had performed there on their first tour in 1972. Since that concert, the band had gone onto bigger and better things and headlined the main stage when they returned in 1979. The majority of their setlist consisted of their favourite and best known songs. They also included a few new songs that would appear on their next album. 

Their rock stylings hyped up the record crowd into a frenzy. It was a mixture of younger students who loved the band’s sound and aesthetic, as well as a large contingent of classic hard rockers. The crowd was so large that a local biker’s club were brought in as extra men for security. The huge crowds added to the sense of occasion for a local band returning to their roots to perform in front of their friends and family. 

The recording features the sound of crowd singing along with the band on their greatest hits. The biggest crowd reaction came with the “Milkshake Medley.” The band mashed up some of their favourite album deep cuts into an epic 11 minute song. It took the band a long time to quite work out how to merge the songs into each other especially rhyming lyrics from one song with those of another. They eventually worked it out and the mash-up was the highlight of the concert.