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!

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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).

Monday, 24 August 2026

Show 241 - The Police - Live At Hatfield Polytechnic - 21 February 1979



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 BBC Transcription disc I believe (vinyl) so I imagine it was intended for broadcast in the USA.The original had fadeouts after several songs (I guess to facilitate advertising breaks), some vinyl clicks and pops and the odd bit of vinyl noise. Otherwise it was in good condition. The performance of the band, pre fame and fortune, is superb - their career would take off soon after. This recording features the first live appearance of Message In A Bottle - their first #1 single in the UK when released much later in the year. 

What Was Done
I blended the songs together better where there were fades and then got on with improving the basic sound quality. Really, it was improving the clarity, tightening up the bass and drums a bit and making them more audible in the mix, and separating out the guitar, bass, drums and vocals a bit. Once that was done, I mastered to make it more powerful. 

This one is well worth a listen - they really are on fire during this gig and the crowd respond accordingly. Despite Sting saying more than once how great the crowd is and how they will have to come back - fate had other things (and bigger venues) in store for them, and as far as I can tell, they never did. I hope you can 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
Can't Stand Losing You
So Lonely
Fall Out
Hole In My Life
Truth Hits Everybody
Message In A Bottle
Peanuts
Roxanne
Next To You
Can't Stand Losing You

Don't forget to check out the other shows from The Police on the site, all listed HERE.

 

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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