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, 30 December 2025

Some links are down - working on it

Hi all. It's just been brought to my attention that some of the links are not working. It seems something has happened with the bit.ly link shortening URLs. I'll get to the bottom of it asap and if necessary create new links. It's rather annoying as the files are all available on the cloud servers... In the meantime, if a link to a gig you're after isn't working, do please let me know. Cheers! 

Edited to add... It seems the bit.ly SOMETIMES seem to generate their own pop up message window asking you to accept or refuse permissions, while also showing the stream or download link. So you should be able to ignore it and just download or stream as normal! HOWEVER, if you have a pop up blocker it may stop the link working, so you will have to add an exception or disable it temporarily. Users of the Brave browser (which inherently blocks pop ups) may have to use another browser, perhaps.

Do please let me know any issues! Cheers.

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