Welcome - About Live and Loud!

Live and Loud! began as a fortnightly internet radio show in 2012 taking old unreleased live concert recordings I could find and working to repair and improve them - fixing tape hiss, noise, tape drop out, clicks, speed variations, defects - before improving the sound quality by EQing the sound to bring out the instruments as clearly as possible. These are now made directly available to download for free to reach as many fans of the music as possible.

Depending on the quality of the original recording, these can often be made to sound almost like commercial recordings - but of course I can't guarantee that for every show. What I can guarantee is it will sound far better than the original files available which have been floating around the internet and on bootleg recordings for many years.

Almost all are either "soundboard" recordings (taken directly from the mixing desk used at the gig on the night) or old FM radio recordings. A few gigs, if they are of special historical importance, make an appearance even if they were recorded from the audience - these can also be made to sound better than ever.

Do your ears a favour and listen on headphones or good speakers to get most benefit - laptop speakers will always sound pretty poor by comparison.

All shows still available are listed, including a link to download the remastered show for free. If you want to support the site with a small donation, you can receive the shows as either separate MP3s or FLACs (your choice) - head over to the Rewards for Donations page and see how you can get a lot for very little!

If you want to email me, an email link is in my profile in a link in the side panel.

And finally... These are great fun to listen to but DO NOT replace original releases - support these artists and buy their music. There is nothing you can go and buy in a regular record store here. If a gig is made available as a regular release, then it will be removed (as a couple have been already).

Thursday, 5 June 2025

Show 219 - Depeche Mode - Live At Shrine Auditorium Los Angeles - 12 Dec 1998

 

A quick request. If you plan on downloading this and putting it on your YouTube channel or your own bootleg page - I don't mind. But a credit to this website where you found it and a link back to this page would be really appreciated. It helps me gauge which artists are popular - ie more chance of other restorations coming. Don't just steal it, cut out the intro and outro and take the credit. Thanks.


The Show
It's been almost 3 years since I last did a DM show. I've done many others but this is the latest I've done in their long history, and dates from their first tour after Alan Wilder left. They were headlining KROQ's 9th annual "Almost" Acoustic Christmas Show in Los Angeles, towards the end of their tour. The text file with this described it as a very good soundboard recording. And so it was, although rather dull and muffled sounding with very little in the way of dynamics.

What Was Done
Azimuth adjusted, a tape dropout fixed but then it was straight to EQ and the usual studio toys to bring some clarity and space back to the sound mix, and then mastered to make it clearer and more powerful overall. The performance was already good - the sound now is far more impressive and powerful and does the band justice. Turn the sound up, you are in for a treat! And watch out for the encore, which features Billy Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins.


The All Important Download/Stream Link

As always, the restored and remastered show is available to download or stream for free as a single 320kbps MP3. Just hit the link:

CLICK TO DOWNLOAD OR STREAM



Setlist
Barrel Of A Gun
Policy Of Truth
It's No Good
Walking In My Shoes
Sister Of Night
A Question Of Lust
Enjoy The Silence
In Your Room
Behind The Wheel
Personal Jesus
Never Let Me Down Again 

Be sure to check out the many other gigs from Depeche Mode I've restored HERE - all similarly available for free.

Supporting The Site

If you want to support the work I do on these recordings, and (if you wish to) obtain separate, fully tagged 320kbps MP3s of this restoration for less than the price of a coffee in return, or lossless FLACs - or even a lossless copy on CDR - head on over to the Rewards For Donations tab to see how you can obtain these for a very small donation towards the site. There is NO OBLIGATION to do so of course - you can take the file on this page absolutely for free - but every single donation is appreciated and helps me do more shows and update some of the software I use as time goes by. Either way, enjoy the show.

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