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, 11 March 2025

March 2025 Update

I'm having to take a health break much sooner than expected this year, so while the site will continue - and links etc will work - I won't be updating the site with any new gigs, or taking on any client work for the next few weeks at least.

Just as soon as I'm back in circulation and there's anything to report, I'll update the free newsletter that goes out to all who sign up for it (yes, totally free) and we'll be off and running once more.


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Friday, 7 March 2025

Show 216 - ABBA - Live At Stadthalle Vienna - 29 Oct 1979

 

A quick request. If you plan on downloading this and putting it on your YouTube channel or your own bootleg page - I don't mind! But a credit to this website where you found it and a link back to this page would be really appreciated. It helps me gauge which artists are popular - ie more chance of other restorations coming. Don't just steal it, cut out the intro and outro and take the credit. Thanks.

The Show
An audience recording from the time. Originally edited to fit on 2 CDs which has meant some noticeable cuts - the largest one being Waterloo is almost completely gone from the recording and fades out not long after it starts. Fernando has a noticeable "jump" cut at 1 point too, not sure why. A few audience recordings have emerged in recent years - this was the best to work on, despite being recorded from quite far back in the hall. Apart from the cuts, this is the full show.

What Was Done
Several glitches in the recording throughout (originally tape dropouts I think) were fixed. There was a  noticeable "jump" cut in Hole In Your Soul - I edited that so it wasn't as jarring. I also tidied up the gap between Fernando and The Name of The Game (the latter was originally the start of CD2).
I then removed some of the room ambience from the recording to give me more of the band sound to work on, then got to work with EQ and the usual studio toys to bring back some clarity to the sound mix. Once that was all done I then mastered to bring up the vocals a bit, make everything clearer still, more powerful and "wider". The result is a big improvement, I think; I hope fans of ABBA enjoy it.

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
Gammal Fäbodpsalm (Show Intro)
Voulez-Vous
If It Wasn't For The Night
As Good As New
Knowing Me Knowing You
Rock Me
Not Bad At All
Chiquitita
Money Money Money
I Have A Dream
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
SOS
Fernando
The Name Of The Game
Eagle
Why Did It Have To Be Me
Intermezzo No.1
I'm Still Alive
Summer Night City
Take A Chance On Me
Does Your Mother Know
Hole On Your Soul
The Way Old Friends Do
Dancing Queen
Waterloo 

Be sure to check out the other live recording from ABBA I've restored HERE - similarly downloadable for free.


Supporting The Site

If you want to support the work I do on these recordings, and the site, 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 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 does go towards this site 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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