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2016

5 recorded events from 2016.

Streetwalkers’ catalogue was collected in the fifteen-disc I’m Walking box. Family played Ramblin’ Man Fair in July and closed its reunion chapter with two London nights and a final Leicester concert on 22 December; the cancelled Close to the Moon festival is not counted as a performance.

January 20161 event

Record Release Streetwalkers Friday · 15 January 2016

I'm Walking — The Complete Streetwalkers

CD · Madfish · SMABX 1020

View in Discography →

July 20161 event

Saturday

Ramblin' Man Fair — Prog in the Park Stage

Ramblin' Man Fair 2016, Maidstone, Kent, England

Family appeared on the Saturday Prog in the Park stage at Ramblin’ Man Fair. Contemporary festival coverage and surviving set-list documentation place the performance on 23 July, not Sunday the 24th.

December 20163 events

Saturday

O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire

Shepherd's Bush Green, London, England

First of two consecutive nights at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, returning Family to the room where the reunion began with two shows in February 2013 and continued with another appearance in February 2014. The house lights went down to a tape of Big Country before Roger Chapman, Rob Townsend, Poli Palmer and Jim Cregan took the stage.

Setlist: Intro (Big Country tape); Part of the Load; Holding the Compass; Drowned in Wine; Burning Bridges; In My Own Time; How-Hi-the-Li; Hey Mr. Policeman; Sat'd'y Barfly; See Through Windows; Processions; Observations From a Hill; Hung Up Down; Top of the Hill; The Weaver's Answer
Encore: Burlesque; Check Out; My Friend the Sun

Listen to London 2016 — Night One →

Sunday

O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire

Shepherd's Bush Green, London, England

Second night at the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire — and the closing show of the post-2013 Family reunion run. Tape intro again: Big Country. Five-song encore. After this date, Chapman returned to his Shortlist solo work; the touring Family configuration did not reconvene.

Setlist: Intro (Big Country tape); Top of the Hill; Drowned in Wine; Burning Bridges; In My Own Time; Sweet Desiree; Hey Mr. Policeman; Sat'd'y Barfly; See Through Windows; No Mule's Fool; Hung Up Down; Processions; Part of the Load; Holding the Compass; The Weaver's Answer
Encore: Check Out; My Friend the Sun; Observations From a Hill; Burlesque; Between Blue and Me

Listen to London 2016 — Night Two →

Thursday

O2 Academy Leicester

Leicester, Leicestershire, England

Family closed the 2013-2016 reunion chapter at O2 Academy Leicester on 22 December 2016. It was the band’s final concert, following two farewell nights at Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 17 and 18 December.

Listen to the final Family concert →

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