The recordings are great, the packaging is loveless and incompetent, the "16-page-booklet" consists of just pictures of which only one has to do with the documented gigs (in this case the Reading Festival gig where - as a band on the brink of breaking up themselves - they had to stand in for Ozzy at the very last minute and went down so well it ignited their comeback career).
The recordings are a testament to just how good a well-honed and -oiled live machine they were. And Jim Lea is really their musical director.
There is also very little overlap between the various live recordings which span almost 10 years (lamentably, none of the info below is actually featured in the boxed set):
Slade Alive!, the classic 1972 live album.
Live At The New Victoria recorded on April 24 1975, captures the band before they went around the UK to promote their feature film, In Flame.
Live At The Hucknall Miner’s Welfare Club recorded on 26 June 1980, features songs from their new studio album at the time We’ll Bring The House Down, along with classics ‘Take Me Bak ’Ome’, ‘Gudbuy T’Jane’, ‘Everyday’ and the perennial ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’, at this point the band were prepared to quit altogether, yet you wouldn't know it from this electric live performance, but the location is of course telling for a band that in 1973 had played Wembley Empire Pool.
Alive! At Reading the third unreleased full live set, captures the band delivering a sensational live performance to over 80,000 people in 24 August 1980. As last minute replacements for Ozzy Osbourne, their set was arguably the highlight of the festival and led to Slade enjoying a renaissance in the Eighties. A 3-track EP was issued from this performance at the time.
Slade On Stage which documents their 18 December 1981 Newcastle City Hall show (the album was issued a year later in December 1982).