The album includes Henry Cow's last John Peel Session, recorded in August 1975, and extracts from a concert with Robert Wyatt at the New London Theatre in May 1975.

"Groningen" (recorded in September 1974) is part of an instrumental suite where the band improvised around fragments of an early version of Tim Hodgkinson's "Living in the Heart of the Beast" from In Praise of Learning (1975).

The composed material (with the exception of "Ottawa Song") originally appeared on the following albums: In 1995, East Side Digital Records reissued Concerts as a double CD with four extra tracks.

[6] In October 2006, Recommended Records released a remastered version of Concerts, which included the Greasy Truckers set, on a double CD.

An accompanying booklet included a 1977 interview with Henry Cow in Sweden, and a seven-day extract from the "November/December 1977 Road Diary" by Chris Cutler.