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, 17 September 2014

Show 39: Yazoo - The Dominion Theatre, London - 22 November 1982


From their 1 and only tour while they were together originally, comes this recording of Yazoo with the full and complete set from their gig at The Dominion with the instrumental, "Chinese Detectives" restored into the set after "Midnight". Slightly lesser sound quality than the rest of the gig but better its there I think, than not!

This one probably took the most amount of work to restore. I had 2 versions of this - 1 being better quality than the other, but the poor quality one had more tracks in it! And the better quality one was actually at the wrong speed! Anyway, all that work means Yazoo fans finally get a complete gig in decent sound quality. Its turned out pretty well and I think sounds far better than the originals I worked from. I hope you enjoy it.

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 several years ago. You can now download this new version (as of 2018) HERE as 1 new 320kbps MP3 file.

If you would like to have separate tagged MP3s, or even lossless files in FLAC format of the new version, head on over to the Donations tab to see how you can obtain these for a very small donation towards the site costs.

Setlist
01 Situation
02 Too Pieces
03 Goodbye 70s
04 Winter Kills
05 Bad Connection
06 Tuesday
07 Bring Your Love Down
08 Midnight
09 Chinese Detectives
10 In My Room
11 Don't Go
12 The Other Side Of Love
13 Ode To Boy
14 Only You
15 Situation (12 inch version)
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  1. Anonymous9 September 2015 at 04:25

    Always worth hearing Alison Moyet's fabulous voice. Thanks for the douwnload.

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  2. Master Tang4 September 2022 at 20:22

    Never knew this existed until today. Your site as well. Very very wonderful! Thanks for the love in this.

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