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).

Friday, 21 August 2020

Show 153 - Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Live at Sheffield City Hall - 13 March 1979


A first gig for Bill Nelson on the Live and Loud! archive (hopefully not the last) with his short lived band Red Noise with a gig from their one and only tour in support of their album Sound On Sound.

This was an FM broadcast from the time, so isn't the complete show. It was, at some point doctored by someone else as the levels were high and there were signs of compression too (but only on the last track, strangely, so that needed treating separately). There were quite a few stereo imaging issues too, and some of the recording level was a little high, resulting in some clipping or distortion.

After running various toys over the audio, then EQ and a little noise reduction. plus correcting the stereo image where I could, this is the final result - loud bits under control, lots less distortion and far clearer. Red Noise were a powerful live band and I think this recording now brings that out!

You can safely download this restored, unique recording for free HERE as one 320 kbps MP3 file with no nasty pop ups or ads getting in the way. Alternatively, 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 lossless files in FLAC format; head on over to the Donations tab to see how you can do this. No obligation to do so though - either way - enjoy the show!

Setlist
Don’t Touch Me (I’m Electric)
Furniture Music
Stop Go Stop
The Atom Age
Possession
Substitute Flesh
A Better Home in the Phantom Zone
Radar in My Heart
Art/Empire/Industry
Revolt Into Style
Stay Young
Posted by at
Labels: ,

4 comments:

  1. Ianamara15 January 2021 at 12:28

    Absolutely loved it and I have just found a cd of this concert and several other concerts from Bill Nelson’s different guises

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Flip Martian15 January 2021 at 14:21

      Glad you enjoyed. This was a great show to do.

      Delete
  2. Anonymous18 August 2021 at 06:12

    Wow! What a treasure and a must for any Bill Nelson fan. I thought the only recordings from this tour were the couple of officially released tracks from the Leicester gig. I was lucky enough to see Red Noise at Leeds Uni near the end of the tour. This recording really brings back my memories of the power and dynamism that was Red Noise.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Flip Martian19 August 2021 at 01:24

      Glad you enjoyed it! This site is all about bringing back memories. I will be restoring a Be Bop Deluxe show soon too, so look out for that too. Thanks for commenting.

      Delete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)