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, 4 February 2022

Show 174 - Skids - Live At The Glasgow Apollo - 16 June 1979

 

A quick request. If you plan on downloading this and putting it on your YouTube channel or your own bootleg page - I don't mind. But a credit to this website where you found it, and a link back to this page would be really appreciated. It helps me gauge which artists are popular - ie more chance of other restorations coming. Don't steal and take the credit. Thanks.

Kicking off the 2022 restorations with this brilliant, stereo show from Skids, from their tour of the UK supporting their debut album, Scared To Dance. The information with this said it was a soundboard recording but it wouldn't surprise me if this was actually an FM recording - the basic mix was really good and there's audience noise, which is often missing on soundboards. There were also a couple of edits already in the source files where audience noise was cut.

Anyway, first job was removing quite a few tape dropouts from either the left or right channel. After that, it was EQ and some studio toys to revitalise the recording and make it clearer and less flat, before moving on to mastering to finish things off and bring the best out of the existing sound quality. The result is a really clear, powerful gig by one of Scotland's finest bands (in my humble opinion, anyway). And yes, some songs are played twice!

You can now download this repaired, restored and remastered version of this show in full blooded stereo, exclusively for free, right HERE as one 320kbps MP3 file.

If you would like to have separate, fully tagged 320kbps MP3s or lossless FLACs of the restoration, head on over to the Donations tab to see how you can obtain these for a very small donation towards the site costs. Absolutely no obligation to do so of course - you can take the file on this page absolutely for free - but every single donation does go towards this site and domain/storage costs, and helps the site stay open.

Either way, enjoy the show! And if you like this recording, PLEASE spread the news and share the page link to anyone you think might be interested - that way, I always find out which bands are popular. Many thanks.

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Setlist
The Saints Are Coming
Six Times
Out Of Town
Scale
Scared To Dance
Charles
Melancholy Soldiers
Another Emotion
Integral Plot
All The Young Dudes
Of One Skin
Sweet Suburbia
Masquerade
Night And Day
Into The Valley
TV Stars
Of One Skin

Encore:
Reasons
Walk On The Wild Side
Masquerade
Into The Valley
Test Tube Babies
TV Stars

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8 comments:

  1. Anonymous6 February 2022 at 08:23

    What an amazing site - thank you so much for doing all this work.

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    1. Flip Martian6 February 2022 at 11:50

      You're welcome - feel free to pass the word around!

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  2. Anonymous6 February 2022 at 08:31

    Superb, mate :-)

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    1. Flip Martian6 February 2022 at 11:51

      Thanks! Feel free to pass the word about. Cheers.

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  3. Anonymous18 February 2022 at 13:34

    Hi Enjoyed This One. Just A Couple Of Corrections in The Track List.. Track 14-Open Sound Is Actually-Night And Day And At The End After Test Tube Babies They Play TV Stars Again.. Keep Up The Great Work It's Appreciated..

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    1. Flip Martian19 February 2022 at 03:02

      Thanks - I have got the 2nd TV Stars listed after Test Tube Babies but I'll change Track 14, much obliged - I was going from the original text file and didn't check that one this time. Appreciate you letting me know, cheers!

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  4. richie23 March 2022 at 15:48

    thanx for sharing

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