Show 134 - Flowers - Live At Centennial Hall, Melbourne - 19 June 1980

A debut for Icehouse this time - or more accurately, Flowers in this case as that was still their name back in 1980 when this gig was recorded from Australian radio.

This recording was originally 1 side of a C120 cassette (remember them?!) and was apparently transferred to digital from that - whoever recorded the original and whoever transferred it both did a great job! Apart from some tape dropouts and a few clicks which I fixed as best I could, the sound was pretty clear. Clearly it's not the complete gig - FM broadcasts so rarely are. 30 band EQ has tightened up and taken some rough edges off the bass and improved the clarity of the recording. I hope you enjoy the results!

Incidentally, the gig files I had were just marked as "June 1980" - but Setlist.fm had the gig down as 1 June 1980, so that's what I originally went with. However, thanks to a listener commenting below, it appears the date of this show is 19 June 1980. And Iva Davies did release this via Facebook back around 2011 - as it was for free, and is long gone now, I'm hoping he won't mind this version being here.

***2025 UPDATE***

Someone donated to the website and asked for this gig as separate files. Given I did this restoration over 6 years ago, I figured it was worth me trying to improve on what I had done before. So with better software than I had at the time and new mastering tools, I was able to improve quite a bit on the sound quality! My donor was sent that new version and you now get that new version for free here too. And as it's stored on the new cloud server, it's also now streamable for the first time!

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Setlist
Fatman
Boulevarde
Skin
Sister
Sons
Nothing to Do
Icehouse
Send Somebody
We Can Get Together
Walls
Can't Help Myself

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