Show 201 - Ultravox - Live In Stockholm - 19 Oct 1977

 

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 venue was (and is) the HQ for Sveriges Radio (the Swedish national radio station), and this is a recording of a radio broadcast of the first of 3 gigs I can find mention of in Sweden that week. Long available as a 12 track vinyl bootleg, this is a recording of the complete broadcast and features 14 tracks.

What Was Done
The first track especially was in bad shape - tape dropouts (small gaps in the audio) every few seconds - that alone took several hours over a couple of days to fix. Fortunately the rest of the recording was in better shape. I balanced the stereo image, cleaned up the mix, made the bass and drums more audible and made everything generally clearer and more powerful.

2 things to note - a few seconds of the intro to The Wild, Beautiful And The Damned is missing, so I blended that in as best I could, and at the end, Fear In The Western World fades out around 3 minutes in (as it does on the original recording).

Given me doing this show this week was prompted by the recent news of the sad passing of bass player Chris Cross, it seems appropriate that this recording NOW is a great showcase for his talent - you can really hear his playing without it getting lost in the mix quite so much. I've had this bootleg on tape for many many years; it's nice to find a more complete version and to be able to make it sound this good. I hope you enjoy it.

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Setlist

I Want To Be A Machine
Rockwrok
Slip Away
The Frozen Ones
Distant Smile
Young Savage
My Sex
The Man Who Dies Every Day
Artificial Life
Wide Boys
Saturday Night
The Wild, Beautiful And The Damned
Rockwrok
Fear In The Western World

Be sure to check out the other gigs from Ultravox I've restored HERE - all similarly downloadable for free.

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Show 133 - Buzzcocks - Live At Electric Circus, Manchester - 2 Oct 1977

A debut for Buzzcocks this time at an early point in their career - a month before the release of their debut single for United Artists, Orgasm Addict and featuring early bass player Garth Smith; the show also features the first outing for "Fiction Romance". It was the final night of Manchester punk venue Electric Circus before it closed down, and while it reopened under another name later, that didn't last long and the building has long since been demolished. 1 track from this gig was released in 1978 on a compilation album called "Short Circuit" but this recording is all of their set cleaned up and reproduced here.

The recording I found was very bass heavy and not very clear - nevertheless it was the clearer of the 2 copies I came across online. My main job was therefore reducing the muffled bass and tightening that a bit, and making the guitars/vocals and drums all much clearer. I hope you enjoy the results!

As of 2026, you now have the choice to not only download this repaired, restored and remastered show as one 320kbps MP3 file but also to stream it - exclusively for FREE by clicking below.

CLICK TO DOWNLOAD OR STREAM

Or, if you would like to support the site with a small donation towards storage subscription and internet costs, in return you can have the remastered show as separate, properly tagged MP3s or even lossless files in FLAC format; head on over to the Donations tab to see how you can do this.

Either way - enjoy the show!

Setlist
Fast Cars
Fiction Romance
Boredom
Sixteen
You Tear Me Up
Orgasm Addict
Moving Away From The Pulsebeat
Love Battery
Time's Up

Show 127 - Siouxsie and The Banshees - Live At The Vortex, London - 11 July 1977

I knew when I got this bootleg that it was one I'd like to have a crack at improving a bit - it being 1 of the first shows to feature John McKay on guitar, so completing the lineup that would get signed to Polydor in 1978 and record the first 2 albums, "The Scream" and "Join Hands". It was a muffled old recording but was just about listenable, although far from clear (the original is also on youtube somewhere if you haven't heard it).

For this one there was quite a bit of editing to clean up a few issues - "Mirage" is chopped off after a minute and a half, so I faded that out rather than just having it stop; a few parts had varying volume; a couple of tape drop outs needed fixing; the whole thing was quite hissy so I took some of that away without affecting the recording too much.

Then the whole thing was much louder on the right than the left, so that needed evening out, so I balanced the stereo image, such as it is. After all that, I whipped out the trusty 30 band EQ to remove some of the muddy midrange and harsh top end, as well as try and bring back some weight to the drums and bass (there wasn't any). While it's still not perfect and there's no way it would ever sound as clear as (say) a soundboard or FM recording, I'm pretty happy with the improvements I have been able to make. The beginning of the recording (as is so often the case) is probably the worst part.

As of 2026, you now have the choice to not only download this repaired, restored and remastered show as one 320kbps MP3 file but also to stream it - exclusively for FREE by clicking below.

CLICK TO DOWNLOAD OR STREAM

Or, if you would like to support the site with a small donation towards storage subscription and internet costs, in return you can have the show as separate, properly tagged MP3s or even lossless files in FLAC format; head on over to the Donations tab to see how you can do this.

Either way - enjoy the show. 

Setlist
Make Up to Break Up
Helter Skelter
Mirage
Scrapheap
Psychic
20th Century Boy
Carcass
Love in a Void
The Lord's Prayer
Captain Scarlet

Show 123 - Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Live At Pinkpop Festival, Netherlands - 30 May 1977

This is a great set by a very tight live band - there really is some incredible guitar work on this. This is the whole set, apparently - I did see a report online that the crowd bottled the stage when the band refused to come back on for an encore...although maybe after a 9 minute Mighty Quinn, they were all played out, who knows...

Anyway, I think the recording originally must have been from an FM broadcast and possibly some sound restoration had been done on it at some point as it had been faded in and out already. That said, there wasn't much bass end at all and the high end was far too high - the hi hats were louder than almost everything else and hurt the ears.

A few hours with the 30 band EQ have improved things quite a bit. What you hear now is a far clearer and better record of this gig - smoother top end and a far more solid bass end; Chris Slade's drumming is really audible now. I think this remaster really does the performance justice; I hope you agree!

As of 2026, you now have the choice to not only download this repaired, restored and remastered show as one 320kbps MP3 file but also to stream it - exclusively for FREE by clicking below.

CLICK TO DOWNLOAD OR STREAM

Or, if you would like to support the site with a very small donation towards storage subscription and internet costs, in return you can have the show as separate, properly tagged MP3s, or even as lossless files in FLAC format; head on over to the Donations tab to see how you can do this.

Either way - enjoy the show!

Setlist
The Road to Babylon
Spirit in the Night
Father of Day, Father of Night
Captain Bobby Stout
Glorified Magnified
Blinded by the Light
Mighty Quinn

Show 115 - XTC - Live at Liverpool Erics - 13 August 1977

A debut on Live and Loud! for XTC - but surely not the last time they will appear (I now have a few of their gigs on my "to be done" list).

A very early gig this one - this was a soundboard recording from a gig played a couple of months before the release of their debut EP! It seems the source I received was worked on by someone at some stage, as, as so often happens, the loudness was off the scale almost and very unnatural, making it tiring to listen to. And quite toppy, with a shallow 2 dimensional aural range. So, I used EQ to not only improve the bottom end and clarity between the instruments but make it less tiring on the ears. Several hours of work later and it's a great show; the band are full of energy and it's a great - if short! - set.

As of 2026, you now have the choice to not only download this repaired, restored and remastered show as one 320kbps MP3 file but also to stream it - exclusively for FREE by clicking below.

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Setlist
Radios In Motion
Cross Wires
Let's Have Fun
Fireball XL5
Science Friction
I'm Bugged
New Town Animal
Hang On To The Night
All Along The Watchtower
She's So Square

Show 99 - Ultravox - Live on German TV - 1976 or 1977

***DOWNLOAD REMOVED 2021...

The show has been downloaded over 1500 times since 2017 when I first did this, but another version of this gig is being made available commercially in March 2021 so this one needs to go. 

The videos are being drip fed on YouTube by the Ultravox channel (as of now, in February 2021), with excellent quality video and sound. The audio I think is being made available on streaming and download services.

Since this page was written in 2017, the gig has now been confirmed as "Live At The Rainbow" from 1977 - a support set to Eddie and the Hot Rods in early 1977, which was filmed (at least these 7 songs were filmed). So go and seek that one out. To avoid any copyright trouble, my version which was restored mono, has now been taken down.***

This time we feature Ultravox with the soundtrack to an extremely rare performance on German TV.

It's unusual because there’s almost no information about where it was recorded! It's generally only seen as a video or series of videos labeled “Rockpop 1976” - Rockpop was the name of a music programme on German TV but didn’t start until 1978! The setlist however, features only tracks from their 1st album (released in February 1977 along with 1 track Modern Love, which appeared as a free single with limited copies of their 2nd album Ha!Ha!Ha!, released in September 1977. The other 3 tracks are to this day, unreleased and not available anywhere else - so perhaps it's more likely that the recording dates from some time in 1977 (indeed, a couple of people have since suggested this is the case, 1 claim is that it was actually recorded in the UK in early 1977 and broadcast on German TV later - can't find a source for this to confirm and no further details forthcoming at the moment).

In any case, the recording is prized due to featuring those rare tracks. While it is quite short, remember this was originally from a VHS recording of a muddy sounding TV broadcast so I spent a lot of time on this - removing tiny gaps or breaks in the sound, before rebalancing the audio and EQing everything to bring out as much as possible. So vocals, drums, guitar and bass are all far clearer and separately identifiable - you can even hear Billy Currie's keyboards a bit more often now.

Setlist
Came Back Here to Meet You
Modern Love
Slip Away
TV Orphan
I Won’t Play Your Game
Wide Boys
Sat'day Night in the City of the Dead

Show 26: Queen - The Summit Arena, Houston, Texas, USA - 11 December 1977

From their News of The World tour - which started with a warm up gig in London in October 1977 and ended there in May 1978 - comes this powerhouse of a show from early on in the tour while they were in the USA. Its a fantastic soundboard recording which it was a pleasure to work on and improve - this version sounds really excellent.

UPDATE: And now in 2018, I've made it sound far better! While preparing this old show as separate files for a donator to the site, I found I could now improve the sound quality further, over what I’d originally done to the recording several years ago. 

You can now download this new version (as of 2018) HERE as 1 new 320kbps MP3 file.

 

If you would like to have separate tagged MP3s, or even lossless files in FLAC format of the new version, head on over to the Donations tab to see how you can obtain these for a very small donation towards the site costs.

Setlist
We Will Rock You
(Slow/Fast)
Brighton Rock
Somebody to Love
Death on Two Legs
Killer Queen
Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
I'm in Love with My Car
Get Down, Make Love
The Millionaire Waltz
You're My Best Friend
Liar
Love of My Life
'39
My Melancholy Blues
White Man
The Prophet's Song
Now I'm Here
Stone Cold Crazy
Bohemian Rhapsody
Keep Yourself Alive
Tie Your Mother Down

We Will Rock You
We Are the Champions
Sheer Heart Attack
Jailhouse Rock
God Save the Queen