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.

Show 134 - Flowers - Live At Centennial Hall, Melbourne - 19 June 1980

A debut for Icehouse this time - or more accurately, Flowers in this case as that was still their name back in 1980 when this gig was recorded from Australian radio.

This recording was originally 1 side of a C120 cassette (remember them?!) and was apparently transferred to digital from that - whoever recorded the original and whoever transferred it both did a great job! Apart from some tape dropouts and a few clicks which I fixed as best I could, the sound was pretty clear. Clearly it's not the complete gig - FM broadcasts so rarely are. 30 band EQ has tightened up and taken some rough edges off the bass and improved the clarity of the recording. I hope you enjoy the results!

Incidentally, the gig files I had were just marked as "June 1980" - but Setlist.fm had the gig down as 1 June 1980, so that's what I originally went with. However, thanks to a listener commenting below, it appears the date of this show is 19 June 1980. And Iva Davies did release this via Facebook back around 2011 - as it was for free, and is long gone now, I'm hoping he won't mind this version being here.

***2025 UPDATE***

Someone donated to the website and asked for this gig as separate files. Given I did this restoration over 6 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 was sent that new version 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
Fatman
Boulevarde
Skin
Sister
Sons
Nothing to Do
Icehouse
Send Somebody
We Can Get Together
Walls
Can't Help Myself

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.

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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 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 132 - IAMX - Live At The Flex Club, Vienna - 28 April 2006

This was (I think) originally a flat mono recording given away as MP3s on the IAMX website at the time - along with a few others being regularly uploaded back then. It wasn't as long as I originally thought - the set I downloaded at the time had duplicate tracks in it, with the intro being repeated. It also had Missile listed, which didn't appear at all! I guess all may be errors from whoever transferred the recording to digital at the time.

Anyway, once I sorted all that out, I processed the sound to give it more of an imitation stereo image, then got to work beefing up the recording with 30 band EQ (the original had very little bass and kick drum). You can now hear the kick and bass, and the vocals are much clearer, with the whole thing sounding more "complete" sound-wise than it was.

Hopefully you enjoy this one now - it's a great (albeit short!) sounding record of IAMX on stage at that time, from just when their 2nd album, The Alternative, had just been released; so the set features tracks from both that and the debut, Kiss and Swallow.

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
Intro
The Alternative
The Negative Sex
You Stick It In Me
Nightlife
Spit It Out
Mercy

Show 131 - Talk Talk - Live At The Paris Theatre, London - Early 1982

We return with a special commemoration to mark the sad passing of Mark Hollis this week, the singer and creative force behind the band Talk Talk who tragically died recently after a short illness aged 64.

By way of a tribute, we've remastered this short set broadcast on 10 April 1982. This is a lively, if short set from the original four piece lineup of Talk Talk, showcasing songs from their 1st album, The Party's Over. The original recording I had access to was very bass heavy - so much work was done reducing that; so you can turn this up a bit without hurting your ears! It now sounds clear and punchy, with all vocals and instruments being heard.

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

Setlist
Talk Talk
Another World
Have You Heard The News?
My Foolish Friend
Hate
The Party's Over
Today

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).

Available Now

Want to support the site and have some lovely, properly tagged live shows for your phone or media player? For information on donating, please go here! And remember you can have any of the above, within hours, or any of the others within 48 hours or so. Thank you.

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...