March 2025 Update

I'm having to take a health break much sooner than expected this year, so while the site will continue - and links etc will work - I won't be updating the site with any new gigs, or taking on any client work for the next few weeks at least.

Just as soon as I'm back in circulation and there's anything to report, I'll update the free newsletter that goes out to all who sign up for it (yes, totally free) and we'll be off and running once more.

End of 2024 News

Hi all.

Ever since I started the Live and Loud! Shows newsletter with regular updates on site news, I keep forgetting to write news updates on the site itself for you, the casual passer by. So here I am... remembering to do so for once. Welcome.

It's early December, and as things stand, there are unlikely to be any further shows this year, 2024. I'm currently on a break as some health stuff recently got worse (as happens every few months) and doing anything involving sound (or indeed computers, some days) is impossible right now. Pretty annoying when your hobbies revolve around audio restoration and stuff that needs computers...

On the plus side I got 16 shows restored and remastered this year which is more than any year since 2020, as well as do quite a few shows for private clients, so I'll take that as a positive.

Oh, and if anyone reading this follows the facebook page and has noticed it disappeared...well, I deactivated my own account on there temporarily as part of this break, and until I come back, the FB page gone too. Group is still there, just not the page.

Anyway, I'll probably be back on there in the next week or 3. Live and Loud! Shows itself will be back very soon in 2025 restoring & repairing old recordings, remastering them and putting them up here for you to enjoy for free in the best available sound quality.

In the meantime, to stay up to date do please think of subscribing 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. Click on the link to read a few, see what you think. Or don't! Up to you.
 

Latest Site News (August 2023)

I put this in the last newsletter already but for anyone just finding the site or not wanting to subscribe to that - some site news!

Those of you who have been following Live and Loud! Shows for a few years might remember that every so often I have to take a break due to chronic (ie long term) health stuff that sometimes gets worse and takes over. Unfortunately that time has come along again. I’ve already been spending less time on screens than usual recently but it seems that’s not helping, so I plan on taking a few weeks off from this. Hoping to be back working on restorations in September but it will take as long as it takes...it's not really something I can plough on through and carry on without making things very much worse.

Anyone donating to the site will still get whatever they request; they rarely take long to sort out and I will be checking emails most days. But as I keep saying - you can also download anything on the site for free; the only thing I ask from you is that you enjoy the restorations! :-)

If you like what's on the site, please consider subscribing to the free 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. Or pass links to the pages of gigs you enjoy on to friends/fans/social media.

Back soon. Be good. x

News - Subscribe To The New Email Newsletter

Hi!

 

To reliably find out about new uploads and other updates please consider subscribing to my new Live and Loud! Shows email newsletter at the link below.

Blogger (what this site is built on) stopped alerting subscribers with any updates quite a while back now, and I had no way of reliably giving everyone updates - relying on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram is often flaky at best. I will still be using those platforms - at least for now - but I now have a new newsletter via Substack which I will use to send out emails to subscribers to let them know about new gig restorations being added to the site, and any other site related news.

So if you want to keep uptodate with what'd going on on the site, please subscribe to receive future updates directly in your email inbox - it’s entirely free of course and you can unsubscribe at any time. Just use your email address in the box on the page; no Substack account is necessary.

 

As an incentive to sign up, I will be randomly picking 3 newsletter subscribers each month - on 1 October, 1 November and 1 December  - this year, who will receive 3 shows of their choice as separated MP3s or FLACs (their choice).

 

To be in with a chance of winning, all you have to do is sign up to the newsletter!

 

https://liveandloudshows.substack.com/

Subscribe To The New Newsletter!

I now have a newsletter - subscribe (it's free!) and every now and again you will get an email update from me - which new show has been uploaded, what's being worked on, anything relevant! 

Even if you're in the Facebook group or have liked the Facebook page, you may well miss posts, given how Facebook skews what it shows you. Same with the Instagram account too, and my own Twitter account. The newsletter is the best and most reliable way of finding out what's going on with the page, and is hosted on Substack, right HERE. 

Go take a look, hit a subscribe button (no substack account required - just the email address you want the newsletter sent to) and that'll be that. Emails are only likely every couple of weeks or so, so you won't get spammed.

Cheers!

The Future of This Website

This site was set up in 2014 in Blogger - which back then was a decent blogging software (Wordpress was another). It's fair to say that times have changed, and Blogger (owned by Google) hasn't really kept pace and is now seen as old hat.

On it's own, that isn't a huge issue for a site as simple as this. However, Google have decided to remove email notifications for anyone subscribing to this site - last time I looked there were approximately 1500 subscribers to Live and Loud! and Google should have been sending out regular emails when I update the site (I haven't even seen these so I don't know!) but that will end this month.

I have access to the email addresses of those who have kindly subscribed through the years and am looking into an alternative solution at the moment; maybe just a once a month message letting you know what the latest updates are. Anyone wishing to unsubscribe will of course be free to do - I certainly don't want to end up spamming anyone not interested.

But in the meantime, there may be a hiatus of a month or 2 until that gets started, so if you want to know the latest - bookmark the site, add it as a favourite, or whatever teh terminology is in your browser of choice - and call back again soon!

Bearing in mind the age of the website, early plans are also being put in motion to redesign the site and move it to a different platform and service altogether. That is more a medium term goal - more news on THAT as it develops; in the meantime, the next update in a week or so, should be all about music and a new live restoration!

Cheers all.

Shows Finished For 2020

 

Hi all. More live restorations got done this year than any year since 2017. 20 new ones, along with 6 new restorations of older shows and 1 new radio session. Once again the shows have been downloaded thousands of times - interest in the site seems to keep going and increase year on year.

 

But for now, it is once again time for me to take a break. My health has taken a turn for the worse this year and I need to rest from doing so much stuff that involves staring at a screen. Which is a bit of a bugger when most of your hobbies and activities involve working on a computer...!

Rest assured, as always - loads still to come. Shows being worked on at the moment include JM Jarre's Docklands show from 1989 as well as gigs by Duran Duran, U2 and The Passions. So these, along with loads of others I haven't fitted in this year are still to come. But not until the New Year.

 

I'll be posting up some stats towards the end of the year when I can but for now I'll close by wishing you all well. And to those who have still supported the site this year - either with a donation (especially in such an awful year for most people), or just by sharing the links or telling friends about the site - I can't thank you enough.

 

(For anyone still wanting to donate - split files for shows of your choice are still there as a thank you of course - check out the Rewards For Donations page - but given the year we've all had, and continue to have, I'm not expecting any).

 

Stay safe, enjoy the 158 shows and 9 radio sessions on the site as of now, and come back in 2021 for lots more!

New Versions Of Old Shows Uploaded

Those of you who have been here a while might remember that when someone is kind enough to donate and support the website, they get to choose which gigs they'd like as separated files. When people ask for old shows, before I split them into a file per song, I see if I can improve what I did first time around, make the improvements, then the donater gets a better sounding version and I then update the main site with a new MP3 of the improved version so anyone can grab the new version.

That last part I got a bit slack on this year for 1 reason or another, so I've just been catching up - there are now 5 old shows which have just been updated on the site. Links to the page of each, where you can grab the new versions, are here:

Bauhaus
Live in Boston 2005

The Undertones
Live at Paradiso Amsterdam - March 1980
Zuiderpark Rotterdam - September 1980

Blondie
Live at Hammersmith Odeon London - 12 January 1980

Elvis Costello
Winterland San Francisco - 7 June 1978

 

Have a look through the site and you will often see on the pages for the older shows that a recently updated version exists - from 2018 onwards, usually. These will sound better than the original restorations done - sometimes back in 2012, so go take a browse and grab your self some live sounds!

And remember, if you wish to support the site and donate, all the info on what you can get in return is on THIS PAGE. Either way, enjoy the music! 

All Shows Now Advertising Popup Free Forever.

As per the title really - all show and radio session links are now totally free of advertising popups once again - and they're staying that way. The advertising server could have been a good idea - but ended up getting in the way of enjoying the music and actually making gigs inaccessible to some, so they're gone, and won't be coming back.

Now, if there's a show you want, just click on where it says to click, and save the file to your device. Simple. With shows from all these artists so far, what are you waiting for?!

Live and Loud! returns in early January with a remaster of a 1982 live show by Culture Club. Until then - Happy New Year.

More Download Links Now Ad-Free (Shows 81-100)

As per the previous 2 posts, I've been working on getting the links ad-free again. Shows 1-80 are listed in those previous posts and now 81-100 (plus the first 3 radio sessions I repaired too) have been done.

These are listed below for ease of reference; so if there are any you want, grab them free of those damn ad popups...! Just search for the artist name down the right of the page to bring up all shows by them. Only the Skids show from these has been revisited recently (highlighted in bold), so if you missed that new version, grab it now:

Show 81: Tears For Fears - Live at Hammersmith Palais London - 18 April 1983
Show 82: Split Enz - Live at Hammersmith Odeon London - 27 September 1980
Show 83: Vangelis - Live in Rotterdam - 18 June 1991
Show 84: Devo - Live at Wollman Skating Rink Central Park New York - 21 July 1980
Show 85: Thomas Dolby - Live at Dominion Theatre London - 28 February 1984
Show 86: The Human League - Live at Festival of Fools Amsterdam - 10 June 1980
Show 87: David Bowie - Live At The Public Auditorium Cleveland - 25 November 1972

Radio Prog 1: Nash The Slash CBC FM August 1979

Show 88: Gary Numan - Live At The Ritz Theatre New York - 26 Oct 1982
Show 89: Jean Michel Jarre - La Defense Paris - 14 July 1990
Show 90: Duran Duran - Capitaine Video Club Paris - 8 September 1981
Show 91: Crowded House - Bottom Line New York - 22 March 1987

Radio Prog 2: Kraftwerk: HR1 Frankfurt Radio Concert 25 January 1974

Show 92: Sisters of Mercy - Trojan Horse The Hague - 26 May 1984
Show 93: Blancmange - The Paradiso Amsterdam - 9 April 1983

Radio Prog 3: Depeche Mode: BBC Studio Session 11 June 1981
 
Show 94: The Skids - The Odeon, Edinburgh - 7 September 1979
Show 95: Dramatis - Paris Theatre London - May 1982
Show 96: Fatal Charm - Paris Theatre London - 1981
Show 97: Average White Band - Belmont Park New York - 23 July 1978
Show 98: Yellow Magic Orchestra - Shinjuku Kouseinenkin Hall, Tokyo - 7 May 1980
Show 99: Ultravox - Live on German TV - 1976 or 1977
Show 100: Depeche Mode - Paris Theatre London - 10 Feb 1982

Christmas 2019 Site Update - and More Ads Removed

The next new show will be up sometime over the Christmas period and will feature Culture Club, in a show from 1982.

In other news I'm still working to get all the download links reset and ad-free by 2020 - New Year, new start. That's the aim, anyway. Shows 41-80 are now ad free again and are listed below!

In the meantime, thanks to all of you who have downloaded, enjoyed, expressed gratitude and especially to those who have kept the site running by donating. Merry Christmas to all of you, and a peaceful and healthy 2020.

So - the file links for Shows 1 to 80 are now free of advertising popups and will take you directly to the file for the show. 1-40 were posted in the previous update, so here are 41-80. Shows in bold have been upgraded in 2018 and 2019, so if you missed them, grab them without any annoying popups:

Show 41: Pet Shop Boys - Live at Wembley - 9 June 1991
Show 42: The Police - Live at The Budokan Japan - 2 Feb 1981
Show 43: Japan, the final concert - Nagoya, Japan - 16 December 1982
Show 44: Ultravox - Live in Philadelphia USA - 23 February 1979
Show 45: Depeche Mode - Live at Hammersmith Odeon - 3 November 1984
Show 46: A Flock of Seagulls - Top Rank, Brighton, UK - 1 May 1983
Show 47: Eurythmics - Night Moves, Glasgow - 25 Feb 1983
Show 48: The Human League - Kant Kino, Berlin - 23 November 1980
Show 49: Siouxsie and The Banshees - Janus Landing, St Petersburg, Florida - 22 August 1987
Show 50: Marilyn Manson - Docklands Arena, London - 24 January 2001
Show 51: Devo - The Walker Centre, Minneapolis - 3 November 1978
Show 52: Kate Bush - Manchester Apollo - April 1979
Show 53: ABC - Live at The Musikhalle, Hamburg - 2 February 1983
Show 54: The Police - Roxy Theatre, San Diego, USA - 16 May 1979
Show 55: Depeche Mode - Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo, Japan - 8 April 1985
Show 56: The Beach Boys - Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento, California - 1 August 1964
Show 57: Ultravox - Hammersmith Odeon, London - 7 June 1984
Show 58: Japan - Live at Budokan, Tokyo - 6 March 1979
Show 59: The Specials - Live at The Lyceum, London - 2 December 1979
Show 60: David Bowie - Live at Bridge School Festival - 19 and 20 October 1996
Show 61: Sex Pistols - Live at The Great Southeast Music Hall - 5 January 1978
Show 62: The Ramones - Live at City Hall Plaza San Francisco - 8 June 1979
Show 63: Kraftwerk - Live at Fairfield Halls, Croydon - 21 September 1975
Show 64: Big Country - Live at Opry House, Austin Texas - 22 March 1984
Show 65: Depeche Mode - Rafters Manchester - 5 August 1981
Show 66: Blondie - Live at Hammersmith Odeon London - 12 January 1980
Show 67: Nash The Slash - Live at The Edge Toronto - 15 February 1980
Show 68: Simon and Garfunkel - Live at John Hopkins University Baltimore - 21 October 1966
Show 69: Slade - Live at The Showplace Dover NJ - 30 July 1976
Show 70: B-Movie - Live at Rock City Nottingham - 21 February 1981
Show 71 - Elvis Presley - Live at International Hotel Las Vegas - 3 August 1969
Show 72 - Joy Division - Live at Effenaar Eindhoven The Netherlands - 18 January 1980
Show 73: Ultravox - Live at The Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles - 30 December 1979
Show 74: Mesh - Live at The Sala Bikini Barcelona - 22 June 2002
Show 75: The Runaways - Live at The Agora, Cleveland, Ohio - 19 July 1976
Show 76: Crowded House - Live at The Albani Club Winterthur Switzerland - 28 October 1991
Show 77: OMD - Live at The Electric Ballroom London - 7 December 1979
Show 78: Gary Numan - Live at The Hammersmith Odeon London - 14 October 1983
Show 79: Tangerine Dream - Live at The Reichstag Berlin - 1 August 1987
Show 80: A Flock of Seagulls - Live at The Metro Club Boston - 4 August 1982

Site Update - More Ads Removed

Progress has been pretty slow on new shows this year - all due to ill health and other factors getting in the way. It is what it is and couldn't be helped.

Hopefully 2020 will see far more (certainly got loads to do!). The next show will hopefully be before Xmas but thanks to a temporary back injury I can't sit at my studio PC at the moment.

In other news, the file links for Shows 1 to 40 are now free of advertising popups and will take you directly to the file for the show. Shows in bold have been upgraded in 2018 and 2019, so if you missed them, grab them without any annoying popups:

Show 1: Depeche Mode at Hammersmith Odeon 1983
Show 2: OMD - at Glasgow Apollo 1983
Show 3: Bauhaus In Boston 2005
Show 5: Gary Numan In New York Feb 1980
Show 6: Ultravox at Crystal Palace Bowl 1981
Show 8: Boomtown Rats at Middlesex Polytechnic 1978
Show 10: Kraftwerk MOMA New York 2012
Show 11: Depeche Mode - Glasgow Tiffanys 1982
Show 12: Duran Duran November 1982
Show 13: The Sweet in Berlin 1976
Show 15: Talk Talk In Salamanca, Spain, 1986
Show 16: Ultravox at The Marquee, 1978
Show 17: The Comsat Angels, In Rotterdam, 1983
Show 18: Abba, in 1979
Show 19: Blondie, In Boston, May 1978
Show 21: Depeche Mode, Live at Crocs 1981/Bridgehouse, London - 1980
Show 22: Simple Minds Live at Werchter Festival Belgium - 1983
Show 23: Devo Live at The Orpheum Theatre Boston USA - 11 Nov 1982
Show 24: Mike Oldfield Live at The Sporthalle Cologne Germany - 2 Nov 1982
Show 25: Teardrop Explodes Live in Guildford Civic Hall - 18 June 1981
Show 26: Queen Live in Houston, Texas - 11 December 1977
Show 27: Japan Live at Hammersmith Odeon - February 1981
Show 28: OMD Live at Kant Kino Berlin - December 1980
Show 29: The Undertones Live in Amsterdam - 15 March 1980
Show 30: Jean Michel Jarre Live in Cairo - 31 December 1999 (upgraded 2016)
Show 31: Kraftwerk Live in Paris - 7 June 1981
Show 32: Gary Numan Live in Calgary, Canada - 12 November 1980
Show 33: Squeeze Live in Montego Bay, Jamaica - 26 November 1982
Show 34: Spandau Ballet Live in Rotterdam - 30 September 1983
Show 35: Bauhaus - Live in Toronto - 4 December 1982
Show 36: Simon and Garfunkel Live at The Hollywood Bowl - 23 August 1968
Show 37: Elvis Presley - Live In Little Rock, Arkansas - 16 May 1956
Show 38: Adam And The Ants - Live In Tokyo - 8 October 1981
Show 39: Yazoo - Live at The Dominion Theatre, London - 22 November 1982
Show 40: The Beatles - Live in Sweden 1963 and Japan 1966

News - Link Changes

Hi, the links which have been going through a 3rd party pop up ad service for a few months are going to be removed in the near future - given the lack of control I have on ads (none, actually), its been annoying to hear some people have had issues downloading, virus alerts, porn ads and so on.

Given how little revenue makes it to me from these clicks anyway (a tenth of a cent, per click), the hassles outweigh the benefits so effective this week, the links will start to disappear - the next new show, due shortly will not have the ad link, it will go straight to the file. And I will start to replace the ad links with the original file links (Shows 1 to 20 are already done).

This does mean the minimum requested donation of support will be going up. It came down from £3 to £1 for the separated MP3s when the ad links went live - this will now go up from £1 to £2 from 1 December. So you have just under 2 weeks to get any shows you wanted as separate MP3s for £1 each. FLACs remain at £5.

Donations cost less

For the next few weeks, shows as separated and properly tagged 320kbps MP3s can be had of the show of your choice for less than a coffee - a donation of just £1. Just CLICK HERE (or on the link on the right), on the Paypal screen, send me a note of the show or shows you would like and you’ll have them either same day, or within 48 hours if they’re not yet prepped.

Site Update

As some of you will know, since being unable to work for the last couple of years, I have relied on site donations to keep this going, and to maintain the cloud space that allows the links to stay up, permanently (unlike most other sites of this type where links can die or be crazily slow). While the site has attracted thousands of downloads of the free files, donations aren't very common; in fact if it wasn't for a few regular donations from a couple of individuals, this site might have already been affected.

I remain grateful to everyone who has donated to the site - some who haven't even wanted any files in return - you have all helped enormously! But I know this isn't guaranteed.

I have also had some other sites taking these shows and reposting them - I have no problem with that if they give credit for what I've done - but in some cases they've actually done the opposite and removed anything linking it to me. And then made them available from THEIR sites via ad links. So they're making money from my work and have done nothing apart from grab it from here for free. They're making me out to be a mug, frankly.

So for all these reasons, the free show downloads will soon all link to a 5 second ad before giving you download link. This won't be paying for a holiday, or even a swanky meal for 2 (nowhere near! :-) ) but over a 12 month period should at least go towards the cost of the of the cloud storage and hopefully guarantee - with the odd donation that comes in - that all site costs can be covered each year.

If this works as it all should do, I will also be reducing the cost of donating to receive separated MP3s for anyone who does want those.

Live and Loud! has managed to remain completely ad free for 5 years - which was always my intention. As someone said recently, that's a rarity nowadays! But the reality is, I was working then and now I'm not, and that has needed to change for a while so the site pays for itself.

I'm aware that to most downloading from here, they are used to ad links anyway, so it won't be a big deal for them - but this info is particularly for those of you who don't generally visit other sites offering live shows.

Instructions
Shows affected will have it noted in the description where the link is. Click on the free download link on my pages as normal. You will be sent to another webpage where there might be a pop up labeled "Festy"or "Shorte",  asking you to select yes to proceed - this is safe to click on. If you see any other popups, ignore or close them. At this point you should be seeing an advert of some kind. After 5 seconds you will see a "skip this ad" button on the top right - click on that and the download option for the show will appear as usual. Due to the freeloaders on other sites mentioned above, if you have a popup blocker installed, you will not be able to download the shows. I'm sorry I have to do this - but please disable your adblocker for the screen that appears with the ad. You may need to go back and click on the link a 2nd time once you've done this.

Extended Winter Break

I did originally plan to return with new shows in January - as you can see that didn't happen. I've had loads of other things to do since the house move and have enjoyed giving my ears a rest. New repairs and remasters will still be coming soon though; I enjoy doing them too much!

In the meantime, a supporter of the site asked for the Adam and the Ants show as separate files - and I reworked that a bit to improve it; that's also now available on the site here for you to download as 1 improved MP3, for free (just check the links on the right of the page).

Revisited Old Shows Now Uploading

There are now 32 shows I've revisited and improved when a donator has asked for that show as separate files - single MP3 versions of these further improved gigs have been uploaded to the site on their original pages. This isn't all that NEED improving - just those I've been asked to send to donators so far and while doing that, I've thought I could make them better.

Show 1 - Depeche Mode, Hammersmith 1983
Show 6 - Ultravox, Crystal Palace 1981
Show 8 - Boomtown Rats, Middlesex Polytechnic 1978
Show 12 - Duran Duran, Hammersmith 1982
Show 13 - The Sweet, Berlin 1976
Show 15 - Talk Talk, Spain 1986
Show 17 - Comsat Angels, Rotterdam1983
Show 18 - Abba, 1979
Show 23 - Devo, Boston 1982
Show 25 - Teardrop Explodes, Guildford 1981
Show 26 - Queen, Houston 1977
Show 27 - Japan, Hammersmith  1981
Show 28 - OMD, Berlin 1980
Show 31 - Kraftwerk, New York 2012
Show 33 - Squeeze, Jamaica 1982
Show 34 - Spandau Ballet, Rotterdam 1983
Show 35 - Bauhaus, Toronto 1982
Show 38 - Adam And The Ants, Tokyo, 1981
Show 39 - Yazoo, London, 1982
Show 42 - The Police, Tokyo 1981
Show 44 - Ultravox, Philadelphia 1979
Show 48 - The Human League, Berlin 1980
Show 49 - Siouxsie and The Banshees, Florida 1987
Show 51 - Devo, Minneapolis 1978
Show 52 - Kate Bush, Manchester 1979
Show 54 - The Police, San Diego 1979
Show 57 - Ultravox, Hammersmith 1984
Show 59 - The Specials, London 1979
Show 60 - David Bowie, Bridge School 1996
Show 80 - A Flock of Seagulls, Boston 1982
Show 81 - Tears For Fears, Hammersmith 1983
Show 84 - Devo, New York 1980

And remember, if anyone wants these as separated and tagged files - head over to the donations tab and they could soon be yours for far less than you'd pay for a crappy, inferior copy on CD. These are uploaded to my Cloudspace already and available to you more quickly than any that have yet to be prepped.

That's it for 2018 - Merry Christmas and a peaceful New Year. Live and Loud! will return at some point in 2019.

Short Break - Updated Content

The latest show (featuring XTC here) will be the last new remaster of 2018. However, some updated and better quality content will be uploaded during the break.

Short break
We're planning on moving house, hopefully in about 5 weeks or so, up into a rural part of Scotland. Before then, there's lots to do and sort out, and where we're moving to has slower internet than here, so upload speeds will be slower - and necessitate me leaving files to upload over night I think, rather than the several minutes they take here! So I'm trying to get through as many of the old shows as possible and upload the separated versions for any donators that request shows (doesn't happen often but I like to be prepared!) to save time after we move. Once they're on the server, these usually take much less than the 48 hour turnaround I usually give to process the order and send on. (Information on what you get for donations is posted in the link below: http://www.liveandloudshows.com/p/blog-page_12.html) 

Updated content
When I do split the shows for donators, some of the older shows (if they need it) get revisited and improved again when I prep them as separated FLACs or MP3s; I think I've got better at this restoration lark since I first started in 2012 and some of the older shows certainly don't sound as good as I remember. For the first time, I will be updating the free "single MP3" versions on here as free downloads, with those new and improved versions (previously, only donators got the benefit of any improvements). Donators still get the separated MP3s and FLACs of course - and not EVERY old show needs reworking - but I'll post updates on this as I go. 

The future
New shows will resume asap after the move - probably early in January 2019. I have tons of material to work on - literally hundreds of shows - about half a terabyte's worth, last time I checked, by artists yet to appear on Live and Loud! as well as others who have appeared already. And new ones being found regularly too, of course! And hopefully (!) once the move is out of the way, I can get back to a more regular and frequent release schedule next year.

So there really is much more to come! Stay tuned...

Now On Instagram

Hello! A bit of an experiment. Just this minute joined Instagram - if any of you are on there, search for liveandloudshows or click on the link and that will be me. Nothing there right now but I might well try putting up the odd video, as well as the ads and news, when there is some.

Latest News - November 2017

Just to let you regular visitors know that I'm taking a short break for a few weeks. This IS only a short break though - I'll probably be back with a show or 2 before Xmas but first, I have a few things I need to get done in the studio (and a holiday to go on!).  LOADS more to come when I get back, into 2018 and beyond - radio sessions and, of course, live shows - so don't go anywhere!

I jsut want to take the opportunity to give a big thanks to those of you who share the links out and to those of you who have donated and helped with my costs - every donation has been much appreciated - hope you've been enjoying the files you get in return!

Just as a catch up on this year so far - 2017 so far has seen 32 new remasters, 17 from bands new to the Live and Loud! archive. For the record, this is what's been done in 2017 up to now - you'll find them all by clicking on the artists names on the right hand side of the page where you can download these and all the others for free!

Radio Prog 1 - Nash The Slash CBC FM August 1979
Radio Prog 2 - Kraftwerk: HR1 Frankfurt Radio Concert 25 January 1974
Radio Prog 3 - Depeche Mode: BBC Studio Session 11 June 1981
 
Show 88 - Gary Numan - Live At The Ritz Theatre New York - 26 Oct 1982
Show 89 - Jean Michel Jarre - La Defense Paris - 14 July 1990
Show 90 - Duran Duran - Live At Capitaine Video Club Paris - 8 September 1981
Show 91 - Crowded House - Live At Bottom Line New York - 22 March 1987
Show 92 - Sisters of Mercy - Live At Trojan Horse The Hague - 26 May 1984
Show 93 - Blancmange - Live At The Paradiso Amsterdam - 9 April 1983
Show 94 - The Skids - Live At The Odeon, Edinburgh - 7 September 1979
Show 95 - Dramatis - Live At Paris Theatre London - May 1982
Show 96 - Fatal Charm - Live At Paris Theatre London - 1981
Show 97 - Average White Band - Live At Belmont Park New York - 23 July 1978
Show 98 - Yellow Magic Orchestra - Live At Shinjuku Kouseinenkin Hall, Tokyo - 7 May 1980
Show 99 - Ultravox - Live on German TV - 1976 or 1977
Show 100 - Depeche Mode - Live At Paris Theatre London - 10 Feb 1982
Show 101 - The Smiths - The Hacienda Manchester - 6 July 1983
Show 102 - Howard Jones - Live At Paris Theatre London - 5 Oct 1983
Show 103 - Bob Marley - Live At The Boarding House San Francisco - 7 July 1975
Show 104 - The Undertones - Live At New Pop Festival Zuiderpark Rotterdam - 7 September 1980
Show 105 - The Cars - Live At Nakano Sun Plaza Tokyo - 30 October 1980
Show 106 - Secret Affair - Live At University of Bristol - 11 February 1980
Show 107 - Fad Gadget - Live At Rotterdam Arena The Netherlands - 17 March 1984
Show 108 - Sparks - Live At Record Plant Hollywood - September 1974
Show 109 - Talking Heads - Live At The Paradiso Amsterdam - 14 January 1978
Show 110 - OMD - Live In Toronto - 24 April 1981
Show 111 - Men Without Hats - Live At Club Casino, Hampton Beach NH - 7 Aug 1983
Show 112 - Gary Numan - Live At Hammersmith Odeon, London - 1 October 1985
Show 113 - DAF - Live In Germany - 9 May 1981
Show 114 - Kraftwerk - Live at Paradiso Amsterdam - 11 September 1976
Show 115 - XTC - Live at Liverpool Erics - 13 August 1977
Show 116 - The Icicle Works - Live at Shellys Club Stoke - 1985