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).

Sunday, 31 May 2020

Show 148 - Depeche Mode - Live At The Suedwest Stadium Ludwigshafen - 2 June 1984


An overdue return this time for Depeche Mode - this time featuring an FM broadcast of a one off live performance some months before the release of Some Great Reward when they played an open air festival headlined by Elton John. The set is mainly selected tracks from their Construction Time Again tour (go here for a link to a show from that tour) but does feature their current single at the time, People Are People for the very first time live on stage.

I've heard a few versions of this recording and I chose the best sounding complete source to work with - even so it needed several hours work just to fix tape drop outs and FM interference/distortion. After that, several more hours working on EQ to even out the sound as much as possible and then make it sound clearer and sharper.

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.

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Either way - enjoy the show!

Setlist
Everything Counts
Now, This Is Fun
Two Minute Warning
Shame
Get The Balance Right
People Are People
And Then...
Photographic
Told You So
New Life
More Than A Party

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  1. Anonymous1 June 2020 at 07:09

    Hello Flip

    Many Thanks For this Effort, you have Doing at this Concert, Superb Audio Quality And So nice to Hear this Concert, Btw Have you maybe any More Older Depeche Mode, Concert to put up on your site, or have you already put everything up Would that maybe be some more Yazoo too, or Human League From these years 81 - 83 Dare Tour.. + as always Magic Ultravox !! / Regards / Tomas

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    1. Flip Martian6 June 2020 at 05:08

      Thanks Tomas...no more Yazoo, sadly. DM - yes, I still have quite a few. And yes, I'm hoping to do a Dare tour HL gig this year also. :)

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  2. ozys28 July 2020 at 09:43

    Thank u Flip! Love Depeche!

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    1. Flip Martian29 July 2020 at 02:25

      You're welcome - be sure to grab the other DM shows here, if you haven't already! Cheers. And be sure to tell your DM friends!

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  3. samfromguam2 August 2020 at 17:00

    I don't really like too much of your selection but I thank you for the depache mode. I do love the clash, talking heads and bowie though. I have a ton of killer bootlegs if you would like to have. not sure how to get them to you but they are yours if you like.

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    1. Flip Martian3 August 2020 at 13:47

      I hope you found the Talking Heads and Bowie gigs on here too then. If you click in the "About Me" box on the page, you can get my email addy there - do please send me a list of what you have, that'd be great. Many thanks!

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  4. Chwill10 January 2022 at 14:16

    Thanks, mate!

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