Upload Plan - Missing Shows...!

Ok, so...the plan is to offer download links to all the Live and Loud! shows broadcast so far. At the time of writing, Shows 46-57 are up. This is because they were only available on mixcloud for streaming before and never for download. So they're done and out of the way!

Shows 1 through 45 were all downloadable at 1 time. 29-45 were available as 320 kbps mp3s. All those before were only available as they were broadcast - as 128kbps mp3s. Well, I don't know about you but I like the better sound quality... All gigs when remastered by me (almost all, anyway) were saved at 320 - but without intros etc. Unfortunately 1 or 2 were at a lower rate to begin with, as that's the source file I was working from was at. In 1 particular case, the remaster and show has completely disappeared!

So this is the plan:
Shows 29 and 31-45 will be up next as they're all ready to go in the better quality mp3s.

Shows 1-28 will be uploaded with a brief new intro from me in 320 mp3s (except 2) for the first time, in chronological order.

Show 30 (Jean Michel Jarre in Egypt) will have to be remastered - that was the one lost.

Bit of a pain but I want to get them up as soon as possible and this seems the best way of doing it.

The Missing Shows
There are a few gaps:
Show 4 - Duran Duran 1982 - I remastered this a second time as I wasn't happy with the first. This then became Show 12.
Show 14 - Erasure - I got grief from someone who claimed to be working for Vince Clarke's management (at 1 point he faked an email claiming he WAS VC's manager...). After he'd got a copy of the show, of course. Telling me to take it down or face the consequences - so it got taken down. If you really want it, plenty of fans on Erasure forums and FB pages managed to get it before it was taken down, so ask there.
Show 20 - IAMX. This was never available for download as the files were originally made available by IAMX to fans. Seemed safer to never offer this one.

Anyway - 31-45 should be up over the next few days. Feedback has been good so far - glad people are enjoying them!

Some Statistics

So Live and Loud! shows have been available for quite some time online and in early August I took all the downloads offline temporarily as I was moving all the files to a more accessible service. So I took the opportunity to do some counting up of how popular each show had been.  I thought you might be interested too! It also shows which shows there have been up to now in 1 place. No pretty graphics or anything, just a couple of tables.

As the new downloads are made available, no doubt some of this will change but I thought this was a good point to take a snapshot from.

Shows 46 - 57 were only available to stream on Mixcloud (no doubt some found a way to download them of course!) so any totals marked * include streaming figures. Oh, and original listening figures from the original internet radio broadcast aren't available as...no-one thought to collect them!

First up, the 20 most popular artists/bands to appear so far were these...

Artist/Band	No. of Shows	Total Downloads
Ultravox	4	1275*
Depeche Mode	5	1142*
Human League	1	1000*
Gary Numan	2	468
OMD	2	360
Japan	2	282
Kraftwerk	2	271
ABBA	1	255
Yazoo	1	244
Kate Bush	1	240*
A Flock of Seagulls	1	175*
Elvis Presley	1	160
Beatles	1	142
Bauhaus	2	139
Siouxsie and The Banshees	1	136*
Queen	1	135
Spandau Ballet	1	123
Eurythmics	1	122*
Simon and Garfunkel	1	120
Squeeze	1	112

So to that list of shows then and which were the popular ones? Remember those with a * were on Mixcloud only - all others were download only.

Live and Loud! Show	Downloads
Show 48: The Human League - Kant Kino, Berlin - November 1980	1000*
Show 57: Ultravox - Hammersmith Odeon, London - June 1984	686*
Show 55: Depeche Mode - Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo, Japan - April 1985	331*
Show 32: Gary Numan Live in Calgary, Canada - November 1980	313
Show 18: Abba, in 1981	255
Show 39: Yazoo - Live at The Dominion Theatre, London - November 1982	244
Show 52: Kate Bush - Manchester Apollo - April 1979	240*
Show 16: Ultravox at The Marquee, December 1978	238
Show 2: OMD - Glasgow Apollo 1983	233
Show 1: Depeche Mode at Hammersmith Odeon 1983	220
Show 27: Japan Live at Hammersmith Odeon - February 1981	219
Show 11: Depeche Mode - Glasgow Tiffanys 1982	216
Show 6: Ultravox at Crystal Palace Bowl 1981	213
Show 45: Depeche Mode - Live at Hammersmith Odeon - November 1984	194
Show 31: Kraftwerk Live in Paris - June 1981	192
Show 21: Depeche Mode, Live at Crocs 1981/Bridgehouse, London - 1980	181
Show 46: A Flock of Seagulls - Top Rank, Brighton, UK - May 1983	175*
Show 37: Elvis Presley - Live In Little Rock, Arkansas - May 1956	160
Show 5: Gary Numan In New York Feb 1980	155
Show 40: The Beatles - Live in Sweden 1963 and Japan 1966	142
Show 44: Ultravox - Live in Philadelphia USA - February 1979	138
Show 49: Siouxsie and The Banshees - Janus Landing, St Petersburg, Florida - August 1987	136*
Show 26: Queen Live in Houston, Texas - December 1977	135
Show 28: OMD Live at Kant Kino Berlin - December 1980	127
Show 34: Spandau Ballet Live in Rotterdam - September 1983	123
Show 47: Eurythmics - Night Moves, Glasgow - February 1983	122*
Show 36: Simon and Garfunkel Live at The Hollywood Bowl - August 1968	120
Show 33: Squeeze Live in Montego Bay, Jamaica - November 1982	112
Show 24: Mike Oldfield Live at The Sporthalle Cologne Germany - November 1982	106
Show 50: Marilyn Manson - Docklands Arena, London - January 2001	96*
Show 22: Simple Minds Live at Werchter Festival Belgium - 1983	85
Show 30: Jean Michel Jarre Live in Cairo - December 1999	84
Show 19: Blondie, In Boston, May 1978	81
Show 12: Duran Duran - November 1982	81
Show 17: The Comsat Angels, In Rotterdam, 1983	80
Show 10: Kraftwerk MOMA New York 2012	79
Show 35: Bauhaus - Live in Toronto - December 1982	77
Show 9: Blancmange at Hammersmith Odeon 1985	71
Show 38: Adam And The Ants - Live In Tokyo - October 1981	67
Show 43: Japan, the final concert - Nagoya, Japan - December 1982	63
Show 3: Bauhaus In Boston 2005	62
Show 13: The Sweet in Berlin 1976	60
Show 15: Talk Talk In Salamanca, Spain, 1986	59
Show 53: ABC - Live at The Musikhalle, Hamburg - February 1983	58*
Show 7: David Bowie In Los Angeles, September 1974	50
Show 56: The Beach Boys - Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento, California - August 1964	50*
Show 41: Pet Shop Boys - Live at Wembley - June 1991	43
Show 23: Devo Live at The Orpheum Theatre Boston USA - November 1982	39
Show 54: The Police - Roxy Theatre, San Diego, USA - May 1979	35*
Show 51: Devo - The Walker Centre, Minneapolis - November 1978	34
Show 8: Boomtown Rats at Middlesex Polytechnic 1978	30
Show 25: Teardrop Explodes Live in Guildford Civic Hall - June 1981	30
Show 42: The Police - Live at The Budokan Japan - February 1981	25
Show 29: The Undertones Live in Amsterdam - March 1980	21
Total	8186

Come On Dude, You're Late...

So! I did indeed say the shows would be back in August - but there has been a longstanding issue with the radio stream provider for Radio Happy, where the shows are originally broadcast, which has meant that....well, Radio Happy is currently more quiet than a very quiet thing on a quiet Sunday morning. No radio station = no radio shows, clearly.

So I'm looking for somewhere else to broadcast the radio shows from. An online station is interested and that's looking likely it might well be sorted out in the next few weeks. In the meantime, I'm still finding shows and very shortly I'll be doing the remastering to a whole range of great live shows from the 60s onwards. I'm also tidying up this blog a bit, so the tags/labels are down the right hand side - and complete - so you can search for stuff you might like easier. I've taken all download links OFFLINE temporarily - files are moving to a new host at the moment (it takes a while). The mixcloud links are still up for the last lot of shows.

I'm also putting together some stats to look at which shows have been the most popular, which I'll share with you all in the next post. Cheers!

So...new series of Live and Loud! coming soon. So far, its looking like it will feature some great gigs.
In no particular order yet, you can expect...

Joy Division from 1980
Kraftwerk (from 1975 and 1991)
Big Country from 1984
Queen from 1975
Slade from 1976
XTC from 1981
The B-52s from 2001
Nash The Slash (a few to choose from)
Depeche Mode (got a few here, not decided which yet)
Gary Numan, from 1983
Ultravox (a few to choose from)
Simon and Garfunkel (quite a few to choose from 1967 onwards)
The Doors from 1970
Squeeze from 1980
The Specials from 1979
Rolling Stones from 1973
Devo from 1980
The Damned from 1984
Duran Duran from 1982
Sex Pistols from 1996

and...and...probably a few others too. ;-)

So...WHEN DOES IT START? Well, I'm really not sure but it will be in August. The station www.radiohappy.eu has been offline a few weeks with a stream provider fault but if that's still unavailable, the shows will appear online and won't be held up. So...if you're on Facebook, subscribe to the Flip Martian group or facebook page - or both! to keep uptodate with broadcast dates. You can also check out www.flipmartian.com on the news page.

And just because there's a long list here doesn't mean I'm not open to requests - so if you have a band you want a gig from, contact me by leaving a comment below! And if you have any live recordings you think could benefit from being remastered, once again - leave a comment and I'll get back to you. Cheers :-)

End of Another Live and Loud! Season

We're now done for a month or two. :-) I have to say thank you to those of you who have taken an interest in the shows and enjoy them as much as I do - especially those who take the time to get in touch and send me their thoughts or thanks. I don't suppose many of you enjoy every show (I do, oddly!) but its been great to get feedback from people who appreciate the work that goes into these.

The show is now taking a short break but Live and Loud! WILL return in 2015. There are still shows outstanding I've not had chance to do, as well as new ones of course that surface from time to time. I have to say that most recent gig recordings I've heard are decent quality already - so probably won't feature on here. The whole point of Live and Loud! was to resurrect and make listenable older recordings that might otherwise disappear.

As I say - loads still to do. So keep an eye on this site - I'll be updating it with the latest news as and when I know its returning, and which shows are being done.

Still on the lookout for good soundboard and FM radio recordings - so if you have any that might be of interest - please do GET IN TOUCH! Some of the shows I've done so far have been listeners who have sent in recordings from their own collections.

To all listeners - Merry Christmas. Have a peaceful holiday season and I wish you only good things for 2015.

See you soon :)

Show 57: Ultravox - Hammersmith Odeon, London - 7 June 1984

A bit of a special gig for me as the first time I saw Ultravox was by attending all 5 nights at the Hammersmith Odeon in June 1984. This is by far the best recording from that tour that exists - but sadly its not complete. Taken directly from the soundboard in stereo on the night, the recording stopped after One Small Day - just as they segued into Hymn. Also missing are The Voice, and the encore songs Lament, Dancing With Tears In My Eyes and All Stood Still.

That said, what IS here is superb and remastering has really paid dividends, sorting out the majority of noises, clicks, tape deterioration, with EQ to bring the best out of the sound.

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.

UPDATE 2024

This gig has been released officially, in full, as part of the Lament 40th Anniversary reissue box set - as such, it is no longer available here. The free version was downloaded over 3500 times. Pretty pleased with that, given this was also a bootleg I originally had on cassette back in 1984, bought at Camden Market in London. Nice to see the whole thing finally released (and presumably cleaned up - I haven't been able to buy it yet). Thanks to all who grabbed it and enjoyed it over the last 12 years.

Playlist:
Man of Two Worlds
Passing Strangers
We Stand Alone
New Europeans
I Remember (Death in the Afternoon)
Visions in Blue
Heart of the Country
Western Promise
Vienna
Reap the Wild Wind
We Came To Dance
White China
One Small Day

Show 56: The Beach Boys - Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento, California - 1 August 1964

This was quite a show - The Beach Boys on their first national tour of the USA. 2 shows on 1 August were performed and recorded, the best bits were combined and overdubbed later to form the "Concert" album. This remaster is of the afternoon performance and is a great historical record of The Beach Boys live, in front of an audience of screaming teens! Perfect overdubbing is replaced by the odd missed cue and bum note here and there but it doesn't detract - you hear the raw excitement of the gig. Which is really what live performance is all about, isn't it?! :-)

As a bonus, part of the rehearsal for the shows was recorded as well and this is presented at the start of the show.

This is stored HERE as a 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:
Rehearsal
Louie Louie
Little Honda
Surfin' U.S.A.
Wendy
Wendy
Wendy
Don't Worry Baby 
Little Honda
Little Honda 
Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow
Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow
The Little Old Lady From Pasadena / Don't Back Down


Gig 
Introduction
Little Honda  
Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow 
The Little Old Lady From Pasadena
Hushabye
Hawaii
Let's Go Trippin'
The Wanderer
Surfer Girl 
Monster Mash
Graduation Day
Be True To Your School
Surfin' U.S.A.
Don't Back Down
Don't Worry Baby
Wendy
I Get Around
Fun, Fun, Fun

 

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!