Live and Loud!: Show 74: Mesh - Live at The Sala Bikini Barcelona

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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.

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Sunday, 14 August 2016

Show 74: Mesh - Live at The Sala Bikini Barcelona - 22 June 2002

This show is dedicated to a band we’ve not featured before on Live and Loud! - Mesh, an electronic band from Bristol. The 3 original members of Mesh first came together in 1991, released their first EP in 1994...and Mark Hockings and Richard Silverthorn are still together and, at the time of writing, are just about to release the latest Mesh album, called Looking Skyward, in August 2016. Quite some record.

Back in 2002, they had just released their 4th album, called Who Watches Over Me? and in support of that release they played quite a few live dates in the UK and Europe. And it’s an unreleased recording of one of those gigs that we have remastered for you this time, from Barcelona in Spain. The original recording was in good condition but the ending was chopped off just after the last song of the main set ended, so no encores are included, I'm afraid. The encore incidentally consisted of Razorwire, It Scares Me and Confined. Its a shame they're missing but this gig was so good I didn't want to pass up the opportunity to make this one available.

Anyway, judicious use of EQ and some mastering tools have really polished this up. The show is now available for free download HERE as 1 MP3 file.

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Setlist
Firefly
To Be Alive
Headstone
People Like Me
Little Missile
In The Light Of Day
Trust You
Purest People
I Can't Imagine How It Hurts
Retaliation
Let Them Crush Us
Leave You Nothing
You Didn't Want Me
My Saddest Day
Not Prepared
Friends Like These