Show 72: Joy Division - Live at Effenaar, Eindhoven, The Netherlands - 18 January 1980

This is the first time Live and Loud! has featured Joy Division. Long overdue! This is from their short European tour in January 1980 where they played in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.

They’d released their debut album Unknown Pleasures in the summer of 1979 and their 1st non-EP single, Transmission, the following November. After returning from the tour, the band recorded their 2nd and final album, Closer, just 2 months later. That finished, the band played more dates in the UK and were due to fly out to begin their first tour of America when singer Ian Curtis sadly committed suicide the day before. The remaining members, as everyone surely knows, went on to change their name to New Order - a band who will also be getting the Live and Loud! treatment shortly.

The show you’re about to hear features only Colony from the forthcoming Closer - the remainder of this 16 song set being made up of tracks from Unknown Pleasures and single and EP-only releases.The recording did have a few defects, with some bass distortion and tape errors here and there - especially on the first couple of tracks. I've done what I could to sort them out, as well as EQ the recording to make it far clearer than the original. I hope you agree it was worth it!

UPDATE 2019
While preparing this older 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 2019) HERE as 1 new 320kbps 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
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Digital
New Dawn Fades
Colony
These Days
Ice Age
Dead Souls
Disorder
Day Of The Lords
Autosuggestion
Shadowplay
She's Lost Control
Transmission
Interzone
Atmosphere
Warsaw

Show 71: Elvis Presley - Live at International Hotel Las Vegas - 3 August 1969

A bit of a special treat this, the second Elvis show to be added to the archive (check out the first one I did from 1956 here); this is believed to be the earliest soundboard recording that exists of Elvis in concert, recorded during the first week of his return to live performing, in Las Vegas in 1969.

Elvis had last played live in 1961 and then spent most of the 1960s making films in Hollywood, his final film being in 1969, which finally left him able to return to playing live. After wanting to return to live performances for some years, a deal was made for him to appear at the International Hotel in Las Vegas from 31 July all the way through to 28 August - his first live appearances in 9 years. In all during that run, he performed 29 shows to over 100,000 people; a  run so successful he returned there the following year, playing again in August 1970, which spawned the film Elvis: That’s The Way It Is.

Over the years a few of the concerts have been made available as commercial releases on CD but only from later in the residency; certainly not one from so early in the run. Anyway, after working on this for a while with some EQ and studio toys, I hope you agree its polished up really well - it a very listenable stereo recording with plenty of chat from Elvis in between songs, just as it all happened, on 3 August 1969!

The show is available for free download HERE as 1 320 kbps 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
Blue Suede Shoes
I've Got a Woman
All Shook Up
Love Me Tender
Jailhouse Rock/Don't Be Cruel
Heartbreak Hotel
Hound Dog
Memories
Mystery Train/Tiger Man
Baby What You Want Me to Do
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Yesterday/Hey Jude
In the Ghetto
Suspicious Minds
What'd I Say
Can't Help Falling in Love

Show 70: B-Movie - Live at Rock City Nottingham - 21 February 1981

B-Movie formed in 1979, releasing 2 EPs in 1980. They ultimately released a few singles over the years but never an album until 1985 - by which time their time had perhaps been and gone - the lack of success of which contributing to them finally calling it a day, after several lineup changes.

This gig came just weeks after they featured on the Some Bizarre album, a compilation album also featuring the then unknown Depeche Mode, Blancmange, Soft Cell and The The, amongst others. The single they're perhaps most known for is Remembrance Day - and that was about to be released shortly after this gig.

The B-Movie story didn’t end in 1985 of course - since then they’ve got back together with the original lineup a few times and in March 2016 released a brand new album called Climate of Fear on download, CD and vinyl! Well worth checking out (I bought the CD).

But back to 1981... The recording of this gig I got was so noisy, it sounded like they performed in a wind tunnel! However, some careful noise reduction, speed correction and judicious use of EQ has really helped rescue this one - it sounds far better now. I hope you enjoy this rare live recording from a band that are so often overlooked when people talk about "the 80s".

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
Polar Opposites
Moles
Escalator
Welcome To The Shrink
The Devil In Me
Nowhere Girl
The Fool
Time Out
Remembrance Day
All Fall Down