Show 217 - David Bowie - Live At The Phoenix Festival UK - 18 July 1996

 

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 text file with the CD rip I received suggested this was a soundboard recording but I think this is far more likely to be a stereo FM broadcast. In any case, it's the full show from the only UK date of Bowie's tour of festivals around Europe in the Summer of 1996; a tour that featured a slimmed down version of the band he had played the 1.Outside tour with a few months earlier. 

What Was Done
There were a few clicks to remove but the biggest fault was a gap in the sound at 1 point (with a small bit of music missing). All I could really do was fade that out and cross back in so it doesn't disturb your listening anything like as much. 

Once that was done, I got to work on what was a rather flat recording - EQ and the usual studio toys really improved the sound a lot - you can really hear everything going on now. Finally, I mastered it to make it clearer and more powerful. The result is really really excellent - both Bowie and the band are on top form; this is a great gig.

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Setlist
Look Back in Anger
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
The Hearts Filthy Lesson
Outside
Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?)
The Voyeur Of Utter Destruction (As Beauty)
The Man Who Sold The World
Hallo Spaceboy
Breaking Glass
Telling Lies
Jump They Say
Under Pressure
"Heroes"
Strangers When We Meet
Lust For Life
All The Young Dudes
White Light/White Heat
Moonage Daydream

 

Be sure to check out the other gigs from David Bowie I've restored HERE - including a completely different acoustic set from later in 1996 - all similarly downloadable for free.

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Show 194 - David Bowie - Live At The Montreal Forum Canada - 12 July 1983

 

 

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
Both nights in Montreal were recorded for FM broadcast - the second night (13 July) was the one broadcast and has been widely bootlegged. THIS one is the unused first night and was sourced from 2 CD bootlegs. The show includes the brilliantly enthusiastic MC introducing Bowie, the whole set and all the encores - the show lasts just over 2 hours altogether and features 27 songs.

What Was Done
The main problem with the first night (this one) was on the first 2 songs - several instances of someone (a recording engineer/sound guy presumably - if you know, please leave a comment) deciding to talk into a mic and this being picked up REALLY LOUDLY on the recording so it obscures the band and Bowie, somewhat, for a few seconds each time. Using some of my studio toys for a few hours, I was able to reduce the volume on this guy's voice without affecting the band and Bowie. It's not gone altogether (that WAS starting to affect the music) but it's much less distracting.

There were some dips in volume to take care of and then I needed to edit the 2 CD sides together in 1 file without you noticing. Once that was done, I got to work with EQ and the usual studio toys to bring more clarity to the sound mix, and then mastered it all to make it clearer and more powerful overall. You can really hear the instruments being played now more clearly than on the source. This is a really strong performance and a really great sounding recording now.

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Setlist
Look Back in Anger
Breaking Glass
Scary Monsters
Rebel Rebel
Heroes
What In The World
Life On Mars
Sorrow
Golden Years
Fashion
Let's Dance
Red Sails
China Girl
White Light White Heat
Station to Station
Cracked Actor
Ashes to Ashes
Space Oddity
Young Americans
Cat People (Puttin' Out Fire)
TVC15
Fame

Encore
Star
Stay
Jean Genie

2nd Encore
I Can't Explain
Modern Love

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


Supporting The Site

If you want to support the work I do on these recordings, and the site, and (if you wish) 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 costs. 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 domain/storage costs, and helps the site stay open, and helps me do more shows. Either way, enjoy the show.

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Show 126 - David Bowie - Live at The Astoria, London - 2 Dec 1999

It's been a while since I did a Bowie show - long overdue! This is a great show from the short (but perfectly formed) "Hours" tour in 1999 with plenty of banter with the crowd from Bowie throughout, not to mention some great versions of songs.

The source files were in rather dull and muddy mono - the text file with the lossless source files claimed it was a soundboard recording (I think it's either that or a mix from a video soundtrack). After transferring the files to a single .wav file and sorting out a few clicks and some sound level variations, 30 band EQ was used to refine and clear up the bottom end and roll off harsh mids and upper frequencies, to bring some clarity to the mix (Sterling Campbell and Gail Ann Dorsey are now rather clearer in the mix than before).

***2025 UPDATE***

Someone donated to the website and asked for this gig to be put on CD. Given I did this restoration almost 7 years ago, I figured it was worth me trying to improve on what I had done before. So with better software than I had at the time and new mastering tools, I WAS able to improve quite a bit on the sound quality. My donor now has that new version on CD and you now get that new version for free here too. And as it's  stored on the new cloud server, it's also now streamable for the first time.

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
Life On Mars?
Word On A Wing
Thursday Child
Ashes To Ashes
Survive
Can't Help Thinking About Me
China Girl
Always Crashing In The Same Car
Something In The Air
Drive In Saturday
Stay
Seven
Changes
Rebel Rebel
Repetition
The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell
Cracked Actor
I'm Afraid Of Americans

Be sure to check out the other gigs from David Bowie I've restored HERE - all similarly downloadable 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.

Subscribe And Share

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE 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.

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, Bluesky, 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.

Show 87: David Bowie - Live In Cleveland - 25 November 1972

This is a remaster of a recording by someone from the audience on the night (update: that person did get in touch with some more details - see the comments section below). As such it might not be as clear as most of the gigs on the archive (especially the first track, where the sound engineer on the night took a few minutes to get things sounding ok).

2016 has been a bad year for many. It was also the year David Bowie passed away which affected me and many others more than I guess we would have thought, so I wanted to do something from him to close the year as a mark of respect. This gig catches him coming towards the end of his first proper US tour. The recording - recorded in the crowd, on cassette, so long ago - is a remarkable record of a great gig, with Bowie chatting in between songs. I spent more than a few hours on EQ'ing this but fortunately otherwise there wasn't too much to do in repair terms.  There are a couple of instances where the song fades out and back in - these were on the original recording and have been left as is.

***2025 UPDATE***

Someone donated to the website and asked for this gig to be put on CD. Given I did this restoration almost 9 years ago, I figured it was worth me trying to improve on what I had done before. So with better software than I had at the time and new mastering tools, I WAS able to improve quite a bit on the sound quality. My donor now has that new version on CD and you now get that new version for free here too. And as it's  stored on the new cloud server, it's also now streamable for the first time.

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:

CLICK TO DOWNLOAD OR STREAM

Setlist
Hang On To Yourself
Ziggy Stardust
Changes
The Supermen
Life On Mars
Five Years
Space Oddity
Andy Warhol
Drive In Saturday
The Width Of A Circle
John, I'm Only Dancing
Moonage Daydream
Waiting For The Man
The Jean Genie
Suffragette City
Rock'n'Roll Suicide

Be sure to check out the other gigs from David Bowie I've restored HERE - all similarly downloadable 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.

Subscribe And Share

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE 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.

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, Bluesky, 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.

 

Show 60 - David Bowie - Live at Bridge School Festival - 19 and 20 October 1996

I wanted to mark David Bowie's passing with something quite special; something quite different to the 1974 Bowie gig already in the archives (HERE, if you haven't seen it). Something which would show a different side to the artist, and the man; I think these performances are it. These recordings were in good condition - some EQ took away some harshness and I repaired a few spots where there was distortion on the vocal.

This show features 2 performances by Bowie at benefit gigs for The Bridge School, an annual event for a school founded by Neil Young and his now ex-wife Pegi in 1986, that continues to run to this day. Featuring Reeves Gabrels on guitar, Gail Ann Dorsey on bass, and Bowie himself on guitar and a bottle top strapped to his foot to keep time, these almost acoustic sets include songs rarely performed elsewhere. There are 2 sets as Bowie performed both days of the gig, over a weekend. At least 1 more (probably more) remastered Bowie gig will be posted up on here over the next few months.

Update 2018
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. 

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 

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 - 19 October 1996
Aladdin Sane
The Jean Genie
I'm a Hog for You (The Coasters cover)
I Can't Read ((Tin Machine song)
The Man Who Sold the World
"Heroes"
Let's Dance

Setlist - 20 October 1996
Aladdin Sane
The Jean Genie
You and I and George (Stan Kenton cover)
I Can't Read (Tin Machine song)
The Man Who Sold the World
China Girl (Iggy Pop cover)
"Heroes"
White Light/White Heat

Show 7: David Bowie - Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, USA, 5 September 1974

I was really pleased to find this one - from the later, second leg of the the 1974 tour, an alternative gig to the gigs in Philadelphia which formed the official release David Live! with some different band members. Its a full soundboard recording - and of course, a complete live record of one gig, not a composite. It  responded pretty well to some tarting up!

I'm happy to say the remaster I did was downloaded nearly 2000 times in the time it was up, so thanks to all who grabbed it and spread the word. However, the link to this show has now been removed.

Why? Well, it was released officially for the first time in 2017 for Record Store Day - and Tony Visconti himself remastered from the original tapes - while my remaster was a big improvement on the existing bootlegs, the gig will never sound better than with TV remastering it. And in keeping with my own thoughts on this - once the whole recording is released officially it comes off the archive. More info on the official release here.

EDIT May 2017: The vinyl reissue is now being made available on CD too! Great news. Check it out here


Setlist
1984
Rebel Rebel
Moonage Daydream
Sweet Thing
Changes
Suffragette City
Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?)
All the Young Dudes
Cracked Actor
Rock 'n' Roll With Me
Knock on Wood
It's Gonna Be Me
Space Oddity
Diamond Dogs
Big Brother
Time
The Jean Genie
Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
John, I'm Only Dancing