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, 19 September 2014

Show 43: Japan - Their Final Concert - Nagoya, Japan - 16 December 1982


From the same tour that produced the Oil On Canvas list album, listen to this gig and compare it with the show from the Polaroids tour taken from the year before. Here they sound like a band worn out by their differences, keen for the adventure to end. And this night, it did. This is the very last gig Japan ever played together.

This is a soundboard recording but the quality isn't quite A1 - however, its responded pretty well to the fairy dust I've sprinkled on it so I hope you agree its more than listenable. The occasion was recorded and deserves to be heard.

Incidentally, die hard Japan fans will know 2 tracks are missing from the setlist here. There is an unofficial vinyl double album bootleg of this gig which is the only place you can find the final 2 tracks  played on the night - "Life In Tokyo" and "Fall In Love With Me". If anyone has a copy of that, do let me know!

The show is available for download HERE as 1 MP3 file. 

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

Setlist
Sons Of Pioneers
Alien
Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Swing
Cantonese Boy
Visions Of China
Nightporter
Canton
Ghosts
Still Life In Mobile Homes
Methods Of Dance
Quiet Life
European Son
The Art Of Parties
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10 comments:

  1. Anonymous9 September 2015 at 04:06

    Not the greatest performance perhaps but an historical document nonetheless. Thanks for the chance to hear it!

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    1. Flip Martian21 November 2015 at 23:52

      You're welcome - an earlier Japan gig from 1979 coming soon in the new series.

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  2. Unknown21 November 2015 at 06:54

    Some great shows here thanks. Can anyone tell me why after I download a show to my tablet. (Nexus7) and click it I get a message saying 'can't open file' ?

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    1. Flip Martian21 November 2015 at 23:56

      No idea sorry, not heard of any similar problems. They're straight forward mp3s though so shouldn't be any problems. Perhaps try playing them on another device? Sounds like the tablet isn't recognising them as mp3s? An earlier Japan gig is coming very soon.

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  3. Julio31 March 2018 at 07:48

    Hi...i download some ago the nagoya concert compplete including the 2 missing tracks and the mp3 soundstreet interview from the LP

    Tell me if you are interesed

    Best regards

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  4. Julio31 March 2018 at 08:02

    Hi again...
    I checked my japan files and it's another venue december 8 1982 in budokan but includes the aforementioned tracks

    tell me if you need them

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    1. Flip Martian5 April 2018 at 10:02

      Hi Julio - I've recently been sent that a copy of that show! Thanks for the offer though.

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  5. Anonymous9 March 2021 at 00:46

    Many thanks for this, been looking for some quality live stuff of theirs for a while, this is one of the better recordings i've come across.

    It's a shame you had to pull the 16 March 1980 bootleg, i have the official Quiet Life 2020 remaster that supposedly used the same live bootleg. Its horrible, can't believe they made it an official release.

    BTW - some software and devices won't recognise or play a large MP3 file and may give an obscure error message even if its a valid MP3. Its perhaps worth pointing this out on the site ?

    Anyway, thanks again :)

    Tony W.

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    1. Flip Martian9 March 2021 at 03:07

      Glad you enjoyed it, thanks. Yeah the 1980 show included in the box set seems to be just the plain bootleg, which was pretty bad. The restoration I did was downloaded over 1100 times, so maybe you can get a copy via the online forums and groups if you ask around - someone is bound to have it.

      Do you know what, in 9 years that's the first time I've heard that. I've never had anyone mention that before. Interesting. I'll see what I can find out about it. Thanks for the feedback.

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