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Thursday 8 August 2019

Show 138 - The Fixx - Live At Rainbow Music Hall Denver - 8 September 1983


This recording is from an FM broadcast and was in pretty good condition for its age. Some odd clicks and noises were removed and then I addressed the low end muddiness with 30 band EQ and generally brought out the sound a bit so it was clearer.

The songs here are taken from their first 2 albums; Shuttered Room from 1982 and Reach The Beach, released in May 1983. There is some confusion online as to the correct running order for this show. I have presented it here as it appears on the FM recording. There is an MTV video on YouTube which has moved Stand of Fall and made Red Skies the encore...however, it's pretty noticeable they've done it with some pretty poor continuity editing! Setlist.fm has an entry for this show too - but whoever filled that in has gone from the MTV video.

I've listened to this several times and, either the radio station guys did an amazing re-edit, OR...this is the correct set list. Either way, the video on YouTube has some odd edits towards the end where the sound quality changes where Cy Curnin is apparently "speaking" in between songs - which to me, just sounds and looks like bad editing on MTV's part. So I've taken the FM broadcast to be the right order and left it well alone.

You can download all of this improved recording for free HERE as one 320 kbps MP3 file.

Or, if you would like to support the site with a small donation towards storage subscription and internet costs, in return you can have the remastered show as separate, properly tagged MP3s or even lossless files in FLAC format; head on over to the Donations tab to see how you can do this.

Either way - enjoy the show!

Setlist
The Sign of Fire
Cameras In Paris
Running
Stand or Fall
Some People
Reach The Beach
The Fool
One Thing Leads To Another
Outside
Saved By Zero

Encore 1
Red Skies

Encore 2
Lost Planes
Sinking Island

Check out the video on YouTube for yourself HERE! It's good quality, apart from the edits.