Welcome - About Live and Loud!

Live and Loud! began as a fortnightly internet radio show in 2012 taking old unreleased live concert recordings I could find and working to repair and improve them - fixing tape hiss, noise, tape drop out, clicks, speed variations, defects - before improving the sound quality by EQing the sound to bring out the instruments as clearly as possible. These are now made directly available to download for free to reach as many fans of the music as possible.

Depending on the quality of the original recording, these can often be made to sound almost like commercial recordings - but of course I can't guarantee that for every show. What I can guarantee is it will sound far better than the original files available which have been floating around the internet and on bootleg recordings for many years.

Almost all are either "soundboard" recordings (taken directly from the mixing desk used at the gig on the night) or old FM radio recordings. A few gigs, if they are of special historical importance, make an appearance even if they were recorded from the audience - these can also be made to sound better than ever.

Do your ears a favour and listen on headphones or good speakers to get most benefit - laptop speakers will always sound pretty poor by comparison.

All shows still available are listed, including a link to download the remastered show for free. If you want to support the site with a small donation, you can receive the shows as either separate MP3s or FLACs (your choice) - head over to the Rewards for Donations page and see how you can get a lot for very little!

If you want to email me, an email link is in my profile in a link in the side panel.

And finally... These are great fun to listen to but DO NOT replace original releases - support these artists and buy their music. There is nothing you can go and buy in a regular record store here. If a gig is made available as a regular release, then it will be removed (as a couple have been already).

Tuesday, 19 April 2016

Show 65: Depeche Mode - Rafters, Manchester - 5 August 1981




Its been a while since I did a Depeche Mode show and this is the last really early show I have from them. This appeared as a bootleg called A Second Now, I believe and is somewhat famous for being the gig where they were reviewed and slagged off by someone who went on to be in a band called The Smiths (!) as you can see below.

Anyway, a gig placed somewhere between New Life being released and Just Can't Get Enough, so still the original quartet of Andy, Vince, Dave and Martin...Vince left just a few months later. I've broken my "no audience recordings" rule for this season of Live and Loud! but some EQ, rebalancing of the sound and mastering has improved the recording a treat. Compare this with the other early shows I did from DM here. This is the last one I have, I think, from when Vince was with them, so 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 back in 2015. 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
Television Set
Boys Say Go!
New Life
Puppets
Ice Machine
Big Muff
Just Can't Get Enough
What's Your Name?
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Photographic
Encore 1: The Price Of Love
Encore 2: Dreaming Of Me



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7 comments:

  1. Anonymous22 April 2016 at 23:07

    Thanks for another great show, much appreciated.

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    1. Flip Martian18 May 2018 at 06:39

      Thanks for listening; glad you enjoyed it.

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  2. This Wreckage18 May 2018 at 01:51

    Good work on this recording - and even more kudos for posting the review by Morrissey. Was he right? He seems to have been wrong since then about so much...

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    1. Flip Martian18 May 2018 at 06:41

      Thanks, yeah I would never say he was right, to be honest. Like so many reviews of bands around that time, the writer was more interested in how his opinion was the only one that was important! Nice to have some historical snippet alongside the gig though.

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    2. Ivan Tereshok21 January 2020 at 20:01

      I have some pictures for this concert

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  3. Danimal7710 September 2020 at 22:33

    Thank you!

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  4. Chwill10 January 2022 at 14:29

    Thank you friend!

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