Any Henry Cow fans here?

40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set Volumes 1 and 2 is an upcoming nine-CD plus one-DVD box set by English avant-garde rock group Henry Cow, scheduled to be released by Recommended Records in December 2008. It consists entirely of previously unreleased live recordings made between 1971 and 1978, and includes new compositions and improvisations, one-off projects and events, radio broadcasts, and live versions of some of the Henry Cow studio material. The original recordings were remastered by Bob Drake.

The box set is split into two volumes, each in its own box.

Volume 1 consists of five CDs and a book, and covers the period 1971 to 1976. Included is the March 1976 Hamburg radio show that was John Greaves’s last concert with the band, and the Trondheim concert that followed in May where Henry Cow performed as a quartet.

Volume 2 consists of four CDs, a DVD and a book, and covers the period 1976 to 1978. Included is the March 1978 Bremen radio broadcast and the May 1977 Swedish Radio broadcast. The DVD is 80 minutes of Henry Cow in 1976 (with Georgie Born and Dagmar Krause) performing many unreleased pieces as well as material from the original Henry Cow LPs.

One of the CDs in Volume 2, Stockholm (over an hour of extracts from the Swedish Radio broadcast) will be released three months earlier in September 2008 as a teaser to the box set. Featured on Stockholm is "Erk Gah", a 16-minute composition by Tim Hodgkinson that was performed live regularly by the band between 1976 and 1978,[1] but never recorded in the studio.[2] Hodgkinson later recorded it in 1993 under the title "Hold to the Zero Burn, Imagine" with some of the former Henry Cow members and others, and released it in 1994 on his solo album, Each in Our Own Thoughts.