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Nostalgia ho! Thomas Dolby released a live album from his recent solo tour. When I saw him play back in 1985, in support of The Flat Earth, he had an engineer offstage managing a rack of computers (who he brought out and introduced during the show.) Shows you how far kit has come in the past two decades. And the album? Live electronica can leave me cold. If you’re not familiar with Dolby, I’d go back to The Golden Age of Wireless, and The Flat Earth first. The live album has versions of the standards, One of Our Submarines, Flying North, Europa and the Pirate Twins, and of course, the nerd anthem She Blinded Me With Science, but misses his excellent cover of Dan Hicks’ I Scare Myself.