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).

Tuesday, 31 March 2026

Links Update - March 2026

 

March 31 2026

For years now, all my links have been shortened with the bit.ly url shortening service. However, they introduced popups a few months ago which are causing some users issues when clicking on my links, especially if they (quite sensibly!) have a pop up blocker installed.

All new links posted from January 2026 onwards no longer use bit.ly so should have no issues. I am now working my way through previously posted restorations to replace those links as well - but with over 200 shows to do, this is taking time. I do try and focus on all the shows here always being available and I pay for that to happen, so this kind of thing just gets in the way.

Progress so far

All shows posted from 2018 onwards - that would be from show number 118 onwards - have had links changed. As an added bonus, the shows have also been moved to my newer cloud service which allows streaming - so if you don't want to download and want to just have a quick listen to see what it sounds like, you can do. 

Shows 1-117 have not yet been done, apart from a few odd ones that have been replaced individually - it will mention streaming on the page if that's happened. Hopefully all will be complete by the Summer.

If anyone has any issues in the meantime, and can't download a show for any reason - please contact me.

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