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).

Thursday, 7 May 2020

Show 146 - Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Live At London School Of Economics - 12 Dec 1985


It's not often you come across Sigue Sigue Sputnik live recordings so when a listener said he had one I was only too happy to borrow his tape and transfer it to a lossless digital format.

This is an audience recording from what sounds like a not very full LSE. I now have software that can remove some of the natural ambience from audience recordings and make the music a bit more prominent, so that was my first step. Then fixing a few tape dropouts and noises before removing tape noise. The last stage was then controlling volume levels at various points and applying a 30 band EQ to the restored recording to improve the sound quality.

I hope you enjoy this much improved recording. You can safely download all of this improved recording for free HERE as one 320 kbps MP3 file with no nasty pop ups or ads getting in the way.

Or, if you would like to support the site with a small donation towards storage subscription and internet costs, in return you can have the remastered show as separate, properly tagged MP3s or even lossless files in FLAC format; head on over to the Donations tab to see how you can do this.

Either way - enjoy the show!

Setlist
Rocket Miss USA
Sex Bomb Boogie
She's My Man
Hey Jayne Mansfield Superstar!
21st Century Boy
Love Missile F1-11
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6 comments:

  1. Kevan James7 May 2020 at 08:54

    I've heard this show a couple of times on bootleg recordings but it's never sounded as good as this! Thanks!

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  2. Unknown23 September 2020 at 13:41

    I have a few live Sputnik recordings including abbey road and the infamous reading uni if you would like them give me shout

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    1. Flip Martian25 September 2020 at 00:54

      Thanks - if you anything I can grab via downloading, do please email me a link (email in my profile on the right) and I'll have a listen and see if I can do anything with them. This one has been really popular so happy to do another.

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  3. Dwayne Hoover9 April 2024 at 22:46

    Brilliant! Just came across this -- much appreciated. You do amazing work :)

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    1. Flip Martian10 April 2024 at 09:37

      Glad you enjoyed it. Hoping to do another SSS gig before long, fingers crossed.

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