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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.

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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).

Friday, 28 November 2025

Show 229 - Vangelis - Live At Sofia Antipolis France - 17 Aug 1980


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
An audience recording from the time, sent to me by a listener to the site. Vangelis live recordings are not very common but this wasn't very good quality and while I always intended to try and restore it for the website, I tried once or twice before and put it away again for another day. Until last week when I pulled it out again and finally found a way to make it sound much better.

What Was Done
The original was very toppy - everything sounded thin with lots of harsh treble and no lower end. It was also, of course, mono. And being a transfer from an old tape there were various dropouts. And when anyone in the crowd nearby spoke or cheered, well that was very loud indeed. 

So - dropouts fixed, a limiter used on several areas where the audience were a little excited, and I even removed a cough or audience speech here and there. Volume was a bit up and down in places - fixed that too. Once that was done, noise reduction and some mains hum was removed - and then out came the EQ and the usual studio toys to bring back some low end, stop the "tinny" sounds, make everything sound clearer, and then mastered to make it clearer still, and more powerful overall, and a lot wider, without making it sound "weird". The result is far far better and I think now you can sit down with this on headphones and enjoy it. 



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:

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Setlist
There is no real setlist for this one, but the set is broadly split into half a dozen pieces, where Vangelis explores and jams through some familiar and less works.

Be sure to check out the other gig from Vangelis I've restored HERE - also 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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