Show 55: Depeche Mode - Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo, Japan - 8 April 1985

Depeche Mode are one of the few bands of the early 1980s still to be together and releasing material today.

This show features the classic line up of Dave, Martin and Andy with Alan Wilder, with Depeche Mode on their world tour in support of their 4th album Some Great Reward. The tour started in September 1984 in the UK around the time of the album's release date, and ended some 10 months (and 83 shows) later in Poland after taking in the UK, Scandinavia, Europe, Japan and North America.

In April 1985, Depeche Mode were in Japan and that’s where we catch up with them tonight, on the second of 4 dates. Depeche Mode, live from the Nakano Sun Plaza Hall, Tokyo, from 8 April 1985...live and loud!

UPDATE 2019
While preparing this older 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 2019) HERE as 1 new 320kbps MP3 file. 

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

Setlist
Something to Do
Two Minute Warning
Puppets
If You Want
People Are People
Leave in Silence
New Life
Shame
Somebody
Ice Machine
Lie to Me
Blasphemous Rumours
Told You So
Master and Servant
Photographic
Everything Counts
Encore:
See You
Encore 2:
Shout
Just Can't Get Enough

Show 54: The Police - Roxy Theatre, San Diego, USA - 16 May 1979

The Police were one of the biggest bands of the early 1980s - but this show captures them in concert just before they hit the bigtime.

They had released their first album, Outlandos d’Amour in November 1978 and initially it didn’t do too well - the first two singles from the album, Roxanne and Can’t Stand Losing You, having flopped some months earlier. In early 1979 however, Roxanne was released in the USA and met with some success - The Police duly set off on a low budget tour of the USA, driving themselves around in a van - and that success led to Roxanne being re-issued and making the UK top 20. After this tour they finished recording their 2nd album, Regatta de Blanc. The 1st single from that, Message In A Bottle (played on this tour for the first time), got to #1 in the UK and...well, the rest is history.

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. 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
Can't Stand Losing You
Truth Hits Everybody
So Lonely
Fall Out
Born in The 50s
Hole In My Life
Sally
Message In A Bottle
Peanuts
Roxanne
Next To You
Landlord
Can't Stand Losing You

Upcoming Shows News

Tonight (4th November) sees a show by The Police in San Diego from 1979 - very nice remastered FM recording.

Coming up in 2 weeks time (18 November) is Depeche Mode from 1985 in Japan - full remastered Soundboard recording from Tokyo.

The show after that (2nd December) will be a real history piece - The Beach Boys, live in 1964 - again that's a full remastered soundboard recording. That show will be uniquely preceded by a recording of them in rehearsals for that very show, which should be interesting in itself.

Shows coming up after that will be announced on here shortly but will include XTC, from Philadelphia in 1981, Ultravox from their 1979 tour of the USA with Midge Ure newly installed as front man, Elvis Presley from 1970 in Las Vegas, The Rolling Stones from 1973, and...well, loads more still to come. Every fortnight, Tuesday evenings at 8pm (UK time) on Radio Happy. Stay tuned!

Show 53: ABC - Live at The Musikhalle, Hamburg - 2 February 1983

ABC's debut album, The Lexicon of Love, reached number 1 in the UK in 1982 and featured 3 hit singles, all in tonight’s set. They released their second album, Beauty Stab in November 1983 but tonight we’re in February 1983, where we find ABC playing live in Germany. While the original recording I found wasn’t in the best condition - the source was a lower bit rate MP3 than I would normally use, with a couple of tracks fading out early - I’ve done what I can to spruce it up and I hope you’ll agree that its worth an airing.

This is stored HERE as one 320 kbps MP3 file.

Or, if you would like to have separate tagged MP3s, head on over to the Donations tab to see how you can obtain these for a very small donation towards the site costs.

Setlist
Show Me
Many Happy Returns
Tears Are Not Enough
Date Stamp
Look of Love
I Wish I Were In Love Again
Poison Arrow (piano version)
Theme From "Man Trap"
All Of My Heart
St Valentine's Day
4 Ever 2 Gether
Poison Arrow
Introduction

Show 52: Kate Bush - Manchester Apollo - April 1979

 

A great show to kick off the latest series of Live and Loud! Until 2014, Kate Bush hadn't toured since her Tour of Life in 1979. So why not find a show from that tour, polish it up and bring it to you? This show takes you back to 1 of the Manchester Apollo dates on that tour in April 1979.  The tour was a lavish affair, featuring multiple costume changes, poetry, magicians and back projections - none of which we can bring you of course! But what we CAN bring you is a polished up and (apart from a few brief parts where the tape was degraded) great sounding soundboard recording. This is the full show, running to nearly 2 hours a great set of songs which has cleaned up nicely - I hope you enjoy it.

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. 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
Moving
Saxophone Song
Room For The Life
Them Heavy People
Man With The Child In His Eyes
Egypt
L'Amour Looks Something Like You
Violin
The Kick Inside
In The Warm Room
Fullhouse
Strange Phenomena
Hammer Horror
Kashka From Baghdad
Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake
Wow
Coffee Homeground
In Search Of Peter Pan
Symphony In Blue
Feel It
Kite
James & The Cold Gun
Oh England My Lionheart
Wuthering Heights

Show 51: Devo - The Walker Centre, Minneapolis - 3 November 1978

Devo, at a point in their history before they jumped fully into the synthpop pool and wrote hits like "Whip It". Back in 1978 they were still primarily an edgy, quirky guitar band with synths. Its a great soundboard recording which has polished up really well and sounds first rate.

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. 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
General Boy Intro
Wiggly World
Pink Pussycat
Satisfaction
Too Much Paranoias
Praying Hands
Uncontrollable Urge
Mongoloid
Jocko Homo
Smart Patrol / Mr DNA
Sloppy
Come Back Jonee
Gut Feeling / Slap Your Mammy
Devo Corporate Anthem
Red Eye Express
Words Get Stuck In My Throat

Show 50: Marilyn Manson - Docklands Arena, London - 24 January 2001

Marilyn Manson, from the 11 month long Guns, God and Government world tour, captured at the Docklands Arena in London on the first UK leg of the tour.

It's an FM radio broadcast originally so sadly isn't the full set - but what's here is pretty damn good! It responded well to some remastering; I hope you enjoy it!

***2026 UPDATE***

Someone recently donated to the site and asked for this as separated files. Given it is over 12 years since the show was first worked on by me, I decided to go back and do it again, from the original source files I had. The result is much improved I think - more rounded bass, a fuller sound and less harsh top end.

So as of 2026, you now have a new and improved version! And also the choice to not only download this newly 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

Setlist
Irresponsible Hate Anthem
The Death Song
Disposable Teens
Tourniquet
The Fight Song
The Nobodies
My Monkey - Lunchbox
Rock Is Dead
The Dope Show
Cruci - fiction In Space
Sweet Dreams
Valentine's Day
The Love Song
The Beautiful People

 

Don't forget to check out other shows from Marilyn Manson on the site, HERE.

 

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Show 49: Siouxsie and The Banshees - Janus Landing, St Petersburg, Florida - 22 August 1987

After the release of their 8th album, Through The Looking Glass, the Banshees went on tour to the USA and Canada. This gig is the penultimate gig from that tour. It's a soundboard recording of the full gig and includes tracks from right through their career to that point. It's responded well to a bit of tweaking.

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. 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
1. Overground
2. The Hall Of Mirrors
3. Christine
4. Melt!
5. 92 Degrees
6. Slowdive
7. Swimming Horses
8. Take Me Back
9. This Wheel's On Fire
10. Suburban Relapse
11. I Promise
12. Red Light
13. Cities in Dust
14. Spellbound
15. Hong Kong Garden
16. Israel
17. Monitor

Show 48: The Human League - Kant Kino, Berlin - 23 November 1980

A show that proved very very popular on broadcast, and afterwards. There are very few quality live recordings of The Human League and almost nothing from their early days. This one in particular is one of those where the historical value of the gig makes it worth presenting, even if the sound quality is less than perfect. This took a lot of tweaking, to say the least - but its popularity I guess means that people enjoyed it! I think its the best you'll hear them from this time.

Please note that unfortunately the last encore track, Empire State Human, wasn't present in the files I received and is therefore missing from this set.

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. 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
Take On The World
The Path Of Least Resistance
Only After Dark
Dreams Of Leaving
Austerity Girl
I Am The Law
Boys & Girls
Morale
Life Kills
The Word Before Last
Crow And A Baby
The Black Hit Of Space
Almost Medieval
Marianne
Circus Of Death

Show 47: Eurythmics - Night Moves, Glasgow - 25 Feb 1983

Just as they were hitting the big time, shortly after the release of the "Sweet Dreams" single, this is an interesting listen to a band who, of course, went pretty global not long after.

This was originally an FM recording and so is an excerpt of the full gig. Once again its been remastered - the original recording I had was actually at the wrong speed, which made Annie Lennox sound a bit like she was on helium! So a bit more work on this one but I hope you enjoy it!

UPDATE 2019
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 2019) 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.

Incidentally, the setlist has been corrected a bit from what was included with the original bootleg. The radio show setlist as written differed a bit from the complete setlist as noted on Setlist.fm - hopefully correct now but I've left the full setlist here for info.

Radio Setlist
I've Got An Angel
Never Gonna Cry Again
The Walk
Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This
I Could Give You (A Mirror)
Satellite Of Love
Invisible Hands
Love Is A Stranger
Somebody Told Me

Full gig setlist taken from Setlist.fm
This Is the House
Never Gonna Cry Again
The Walk
Love Is a Stranger
I've Got an Angel
This City Never Sleeps
Satellite of Love
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Invisible Hands
I Could Give You (a Mirror)
Somebody Told Me
Wrap It Up
Jennifer
Tous les garçons et les filles
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)