Live and Loud!: Show 9: Blancmange - Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK

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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.

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Thursday, 11 September 2014

Show 9: Blancmange - Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK - November 1985

Please note, this download is no longer available. As of 2017, Blancmange are releasing a boxed set of CDs (and downloads at some point) called The Blanc Tapes which will include a recording of this gig, so if you want it from here on in, please go and grab the official one. Available in August, more info can be had on that release here.

This page is therefore left here for information only. Thanks to around 600 of you for downloading it.

Another gig at an important point in time for the band concerned - in this case, its just as Blancmange were to separate. They'd just released their 3rd album - "Believe You Me" - which didn't do too well and this was their last tour until they got back together a few years ago. An FM radio broadcast, its cleaned up nicely and sounds superb. Neil Arthur is his usual engagingly chatty self.

Setlist
Don't Tell Me
What's Your Problem
That's Love That It Is
Don't You Love It All
Why Don't They Leave Things Alone
God's Kitchen
Lose Your Love
Paradise Is
Other Animals
Game Above My Head
Living On The Ceiling
I've Seen The Word
Kind
Blind Vision