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).

Wednesday, 4 December 2024

End of 2024 News

Hi all.

Ever since I started the Live and Loud! Shows newsletter with regular updates on site news, I keep forgetting to write news updates on the site itself for you, the casual passer by. So here I am... remembering to do so for once. Welcome.

It's early December, and as things stand, there are unlikely to be any further shows this year, 2024. I'm currently on a break as some health stuff recently got worse (as happens every few months) and doing anything involving sound (or indeed computers, some days) is impossible right now. Pretty annoying when your hobbies revolve around audio restoration and stuff that needs computers...

On the plus side I got 16 shows restored and remastered this year which is more than any year since 2020, as well as do quite a few shows for private clients, so I'll take that as a positive.

Oh, and if anyone reading this follows the facebook page and has noticed it disappeared...well, I deactivated my own account on there temporarily as part of this break, and until I come back, the FB page gone too. Group is still there, just not the page.

Anyway, I'll probably be back on there in the next week or 3. Live and Loud! Shows itself will be back very soon in 2025 restoring & repairing old recordings, remastering them and putting them up here for you to enjoy for free in the best available sound quality.

In the meantime, to stay up to date do please think of subscribing to the FREE EMAIL NEWSLETTER (spam free) so you never miss news on which new gigs are going to be restored and uploaded here; any news will be delivered to your inbox. And your email address won't be sold on by me as a result. Click on the link to read a few, see what you think. Or don't! Up to you.
 

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