I'm having to take a health break much sooner than expected this year, so while the site will continue - and links etc will work - I won't be updating the site with any new gigs, or taking on any client work for the next few weeks at least.
Just as soon as I'm back in circulation and there's anything to report, I'll update the free newsletter that goes out to all who sign up for it (yes, totally free) and we'll be off and running once more.
Tuesday, 11 March 2025
March 2025 Update
Friday, 7 March 2025
Show 216 - ABBA - Live At Stadthalle Vienna - 29 Oct 1979
The Show
An
audience recording from the time. Originally edited to fit on 2 CDs which has meant some noticeable cuts - the largest one being Waterloo is almost completely gone from the recording and fades out not long after it starts. Fernando has a noticeable "jump" cut at 1 point too, not sure why. A few audience recordings have emerged in recent years - this was the best to work on, despite being recorded from quite far back in the hall. Apart from the cuts, this is the full show.
What Was Done
Several glitches in the recording throughout (originally tape dropouts I think) were fixed. There
was a noticeable "jump" cut in Hole In Your Soul - I edited that so it wasn't as jarring. I also tidied up the gap between Fernando and The Name of The Game (the latter was originally the start of CD2).
I then removed some of the room ambience from the recording to give me more of the band sound to work on, then got to work with EQ and the usual studio toys to bring back some
clarity to the sound mix. Once that was all done I then mastered to bring up the vocals a bit, make everything clearer still, more
powerful and "wider". The result is a big improvement, I think; I hope fans of ABBA enjoy it.
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Setlist
Gammal Fäbodpsalm (Show Intro)
Voulez-Vous
If It Wasn't For The Night
As Good As New
Knowing Me Knowing You
Rock Me
Not Bad At All
Chiquitita
Money Money Money
I Have A Dream
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
SOS
Fernando
The Name Of The Game
Eagle
Why Did It Have To Be Me
Intermezzo No.1
I'm Still Alive
Summer Night City
Take A Chance On Me
Does Your Mother Know
Hole On Your Soul
The Way Old Friends Do
Dancing Queen
Waterloo
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Friday, 14 February 2025
Show 215 - Japan - Live At Rock City Nottingham - 7 May 1981
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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
This is a fairly muffled and "distant" mono audience recording of the first night of the "Art of Parties" tour of the UK in May 1981, featuring the first live appearance of their new single at the time - The Art Of Parties. It was sent to me by a listener, asking if it could be cleaned up. I was initially dubious (quality really wasn't too good) but after sending him a free sample of 1 of the tracks done, this was then done as a private commission. My client was so pleased with the final result he offered it for the website as well, so that others could enjoy it! So here it is.
What Was Done
The recording was, like many old audience recordings, muffled and sounding quite far away, with a few odd cuts and gaps here and there. Quite a bit of feedback in places too.
All those gaps and cuts were removed and blended, so the recording is whole again. Feedback I was able to remove for the most part. A big part of the hall ambience was then reduced, which gave me more of the band sound to work on. I could then get to work with EQ and my box of studio tools to make the band clearer and far more audible. Once that was done, I mastered the whole thing to give the recording some power and width.
The result is a big improvement. I hope fans of the band will enjoy it as much as my client has.
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Setlist
Intro (Burning Bridges)
Swing
Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Alien
...Rhodesia
Quiet Life
My New Career
Obscure Alternatives
Taking Islands In Africa
Methods of Dance
Ain't That Peculiar
The Art Of Parties
Halloween
European Son
Life in Tokyo
Sometimes I Feel So Low
Fall In Love With Me
Be sure to check out the other gigs from Japan I've restored HERE - all similarly downloadable for free.
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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 does
go towards this site 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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Saturday, 1 February 2025
Show 214 - Queen - Live At Estadio José Amalfitani, Buenos Aires - 28 February 1981
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The Show
A stereo recording from the mixing desk (mostly!) of the first of several groundbreaking gigs played in Argentina. This has appeared in various bootleg issues over the years of various lengths (the venue is also known as the Vélez Sarsfield Stadium, after the football team that plays there). I came across a copy of the most complete version of the gig. One track (Get Down Make Love) - and the outro of God Save The Queen weren't on the original stereo recording but recordings of those from the night taken from a mono AM radio broadcast (with a rather excitable radio announcer!) were mixed in at a later date to make up the complete gig.
What Was Done
The recording (the stereo parts anyway) was basically in OK shape although muffled and not very clear - not much bottom or top end; the bits from AM radio were plagued by AM radio interference. Plus of course the AM tracks (in mono) sound very very different to the rest of the gig.
After listening to the whole recording, I split apart the stereo and mono parts so I could work on them separately. The AM radio parts had the buzzing interference reduced as much as I could without affecting the overall sound, and the sound then improved and mastered, making them wider to more closely blend with the stereo recording. The stereo parts were worked on to bring more clarity and impact to the sound mix - all instruments and voices can now be heard much clearer - before mastering and then blending the stereo and mono parts back together.
The result is a big improvement I think and deserves to be played loud; I'm really pleased with this one and I'm sure
you'll enjoy it!
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Setlist
Thunderbolts And Lightning/We Will Rock You (Fast)
Let Me Entertain You
Play The Game
Mustapha
Death On Two Legs (Dedicated to…)
Killer Queen
I'm In Love With My Car
Get Down, Make Love
Need Your Loving Tonight
Rock It (Prime Jive)
Save Me
Now I'm Here
Dragon Attack
Now I'm Here
(Reprise)
Love Of My Life
Keep Yourself Alive
Instrumental Inferno
Flash
The Hero
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Bohemian Rhapsody
Tie Your Mother Down
Another One Bites the Dust
Sheer Heart Attack
We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions
God Save The Queen
Be sure to check out the other gigs from Queen I've restored HERE - all similarly downloadable for free.
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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 does
go towards this site 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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Wednesday, 4 December 2024
End of 2024 News
Hi all.
Ever since I started the Live and Loud! Shows newsletter with regular updates on site news, I keep forgetting to write news updates on the site itself for you, the casual passer by. So here I am... remembering to do so for once. Welcome.
It's early December, and as things stand, there are unlikely to be any further shows this year, 2024. I'm currently on a break as some health stuff recently got worse (as happens every few months) and doing anything involving sound (or indeed computers, some days) is impossible right now. Pretty annoying when your hobbies revolve around audio restoration and stuff that needs computers...
On the plus side I got 16 shows restored and remastered this year which is more than any year since 2020, as well as do quite a few shows for private clients, so I'll take that as a positive.
Oh, and if anyone reading this follows the facebook page and has noticed it disappeared...well, I deactivated my own account on there temporarily as part of this break, and until I come back, the FB page gone too. Group is still there, just not the page.
Anyway, I'll probably be back on there in the next week or 3. Live and Loud! Shows itself will be back very soon in 2025 restoring & repairing old recordings, remastering them and putting them up here for you to enjoy for free in the best available sound quality.
In the meantime, to stay up to date do please think of subscribing to the FREE EMAIL NEWSLETTER (spam free) so you never miss news on which new gigs are going to be restored and uploaded here; any news will be delivered to your inbox. And your email address won't be sold on by me as a result. Click on the link to read a few, see what you think. Or don't! Up to you.
Friday, 15 November 2024
Show 213 - Ray Charles - Live At Palais des Sports Paris - 22 Oct 1961
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
The source for this was a 2017 French radio broadcast of the original 1961 mono recording. It sounded like many old radio shows sound - old and not crystal clear like recordings today, with a lot of mid range and not much bottom or top end - but basically in good condition apart from a few clicks and the occasional bit of saturation where the recording levels were a little high - but this is pretty minor and you may not even notice it.
The audience noise (especially at the end) is a little loud and overbearing - it was mixed in pretty high on the original recording. I’ve tried to tame that a little but yeah - the original engineer went a bit crazy with that, drowning out the band, rather The recording itself is of the afternoon performance on the last day of Ray Charles' residency at the venue - his last gig was that very evening, a few hours after this one.
What Was Done
I fixed most of the clicks that I could and then I got to work with EQ and my usual studio toys to reduce the mid range, and increase the lows and highs a little - all of which helped make it a little clearer, and then mastered to make it clearer still, a little more powerful overall, and wider. The result is a really cool, nice and clear, laidback listen; I hope you'll enjoy it.
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CLICK TO DOWNLOAD OR STREAM
Setlist
Hallelujah I Love Her So
Georgia On My Mind
Margie
I've Got News For You
Moanin'
I Believe To My Soul
My Bonnie
I Wonder
Yes Indeed!!
My Baby
Hit The Road Jack
I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town
What'd I Say
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And if you like this recording, please spread the news and share the page link to anyone you think might be interested - Facebook fan groups, web forums, Mastodon, X, Threads, Instagram are a great way of spreading the word - that way, I always find out which bands are popular and can do more shows by them in the future. So please tell ya mates about the site and this page! Many thanks.
Friday, 1 November 2024
Show 212 - Karl Bartos - Live At The Palladium, Cologne - 31 May 2000
The Show
I think this was originally a TV broadcast of Karl's solo performance at the Electronic Beats festival in Cologne, Germany. Whether it was originally broadcast in stereo or not, I don't know but the only available sources of this recording I found are in mono. It came to me via a collector (and he'll be getting a lossless copy of this restoration as a thank you).
What Was Done
It was rather flat and muddy but otherwise in good condition. So most of the work I did was to clean up the sound and make it more powerful. Making the sound mix clearer, so the drums and synth bassstand out better in particular, and then mastered to make it clearer and more
powerful overall, and wider (pseudo stereo, if you like). The result is much clearer than the original recording; I'm sure
you'll enjoy it.
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and remasterd show is available to download or stream for free as a
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Setlist
Nummern / Computerwelt
Metropolis
It's More Fun to Compute / Heimcomputer
TV
Neonlicht
The Model
Computer Love
The Robots
Interested in Kraftwerk? You're in luck! This is just the latest in quite a few shows relating to them - check them out HERE - all similarly downloadable for free.
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you want to support the work I do on these recordings, and the site,
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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 does
go towards this site 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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Friday, 18 October 2024
Show 211 - The Cars - Live at El Mocambo Toronto - 14 Sept 1978
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
A recording of an FM broadcast from the time. In mostly good condition but needing a few things fixing and the sound was rather flat and muddy.
What Was Done
There
were a couple of dropouts fixed but nothing major, for once. I then got to work with a 30 band EQ and the usual studio toys to wash away the mud and bring some
clarity to the sound mix, make the drums more impactful (they were pretty quiet) and then mastered to make the whole thing more even and powerful overall. The result is a really, really nice record of the band playing live from early in their career.
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Setlist
Intro
Good Times Roll
Bye Bye Love
Night Spots
My Best Friend's Girl
Moving In Stereo
Since I Held You
Take What You Want
They Won't See You
Don't Cha Stop
Just What I Needed
Encore:
Candy-O
You're All I've Got Tonight
Be sure to check out all gigs from The Cars I've restored HERE - all similarly downloadable for free.
Supporting The Site
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you want to support the work I do on these recordings, and the site,
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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 does
go towards this site 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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Friday, 4 October 2024
Show 210 - A-ha - Live At Hammersmith Odeon - 16 Dec 1986
The Show
Considering
A-Ha have been playing for almost 40 years it seems crazy there aren't
more live recordings by them - but there really aren't that many; this
is the earliest I could find. An
audience recording from the time, featuring a very excited female
audience (by the sounds of it)! This one was taken from 1 of many gigs over 2 months in the UK, roughly half way through their world tour (that seems to have lasted over 12 months).
What Was Done
There
were some random gaps, tape dropouts and a glitch - all those got fixed so the gig
flows without interruptions. Then I removed some of the venue reverb (the ambience) that's
always present in audience recordings, so there was more of the band's
sound to work with, then started EQing and tweaking to make the band and
vocals clearer and more "present", and the bass and drums more audible. Then I mastered the results to finish off. The
band now are rather louder than the screaming girls and it's far more
listenable as a result. A very decent gig and performance and a good representation of the band live at that time!
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Setlist
Train Of Thought
Love Is Reason
Living A Boy's Adventure Tale
Cry Wolf
The Blue Sky
The Sun Always Shines On TV
Driftwood
Here I Stand And Face The Rain
We're Looking For The Whales
And You Tell Me
Hunting High And Low
I've Been Losing You
Scoundrel Days
Take On Me
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site. There is NO OBLIGATION to do so of course - you can take the
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software I use as time goes by. Either way, enjoy the show.
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Friday, 30 August 2024
Show 209 - Jean Michel Jarre - Live In Houston Texas - 5 April 1986
The Show
I spent months (actually years, on and off) looking for a recording of this broadcast and only came across very low bit rate MP3s, or a recording that sounded like the FM Tuner wasn’t 100% tuned in correctly when the recording was made. Recently however, I swapped some files with a collector and finally had a half way decent recording of the broadcast.
What Was Done
It was in stereo, which was a good start. But the sound quality was variable; I am sure someone at some point had tried to work on this - it may well be more than 1 recording that’s been used to make the source I received as the sound varied a few times throughout. Several days of work then ensued - the usual tape dropouts and odd clicks, really loud tape noise in places, gaps, random volume drops on just the left or right channel and the quality of the sound also changing several times… All eventually sorted, as best I can. There were also a few seconds missing during Rendez-Vous 2 - I ended up fading that out and back in, so it was less jarring.
Once all the repair work was done, I worked on the sound quality and then mastered it (to cut a long story short!). And then after mastering I still tweaked it a little more. Normally I remove radio voiceovers where I can but this time I left in the original intro, just for a bit of "history". Anyone local to Houston around that time may well recognise the voice.
This one has taken quite a while - but I think it was worth it. Unless someone has a great quality recording they're keeping to themselves, I think this will be the best available anywhere. I hope you enjoy it!
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Setlist
Ethnicolor Part 1
Oxygène Part 1
Oxygène Part 2
Oxygène Part 4
Equinoxe Part 7
Souvenir of China
Equinoxe Part 4
Equinoxe Part 2
Equinoxe Part 5
Rendez-Vous 3
Rendez-Vous 2
Oxygène Part 5
Last Rendez-Vous (Ron’s Piece)
Rendez-Vous 4
Be sure to check out the other recordings from Jean Michel Jarre I've restored HERE - all similarly downloadable for free.
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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 does
go towards this site 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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