Show 235 - John Foxx - Live At The Palladium Rome - 7 December 1983

 

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
John Foxx only toured once in the 1980s - towards the end of 1983 in support of his 3rd album, The Golden Section. I am indebted to a listener of Live And Loud! Shows who recently got in touch and donated a lot of recordings of different bands, including this one.  This is an audience recording made at the gig. Some damage - clicks, dropouts, a short part missing altogether, some fadeouts. And unfortunately it is missing the final encore, Your Dress, but the rest of the show is present.

What Was Done
Despite the damage, the taper was in a good position on the night to get a fairly clear recording so it was well worth working on. I repaired the missing part in the first song (see if you can spot where!) and then repaired the rest. Then it was on to improve the clarity, tightening up the bass and drums a bit, and separating out the instruments. Once that was done, I mastered to widen the sound somewhat, make the vocals a bit more prominent in the mix and make it all sound more powerful overall. As with most live gigs - especially those recorded in the crowd over 40 years ago - you will hear the odd bit of feedback. The beauty of audience recordings though is you can sometimes shut your eyes and imagine you're standing there. This is not a sanitised live recording - this is what you heard on the night.

Anyway, it may have been a lot of work but live recordings of John Foxx are not common, so this was well worth spending extra time on. I hope you can enjoy it.

The All Important Download/Stream Link

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

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Setlist
Running Across Thin Ice With Tigers
Walk Away
My Wild Love
Quiet Men
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Just For A Moment
Like A Miracle
Ghosts On Water
Pater Noster
The Hidden Man
Slow Motion
When I Was A Man And You Were A Woman
Systems Of Romance

Encore
The Garden
I Can't Stay Long

While there are no other John Foxx gigs on the site, there ARE 3 restored early Foxx era Ultravox gigs from 1977-79 which are well worth catching - you can check them out by looking through all the Ultravox restorations on the site HERE. 

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