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A long overdue debut on this site for The Cure. Taken from their first national tour (after supporting the Banshees on theirs just a few months earlier) this audience recording came to me as a .wav file from a fan - a regular listener to Live and Loud! Shows, who asked if I could improve it.
It was very toppy, thin and boxy sounding - very little in the bass end and a lot in the mids and high end. After removing some of the reverb from the recording to bring back more music signal to work on, I removed tape noise and repaired where the tape stopped (and turned over, I imagine!) at the end of 1 song so that song fades nicely into the start of the next. Then repaired some odd clicks and noises and the odd tape dropout. Only then did I get to work on the sound and enhance what bass there was, buried away, while trying to bring more clarity and weight to the sound as a whole.
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Setlist
Seventeen Seconds
Accuracy
M
10.15 Saturday Night
Play For Today
A Forest
Fire In Cairo
44F (Another Journey By Train)
A.N. (In Your House)
Boys Don't Cry
Jumping Someone Else's Train
Grinding Halt
Encore 1
Three Imaginary Boys
Killing An Arab
Encore 2
Subway Song
Jumping Someone Else's Train
Encore 3
Killing An Arab
And (really) finally - CLICK HERE for the Cure Concerts website page with more info on this particular gig!
So interesting to hear several 17 Seconds tracks being played months before the album came out--they were already pretty much in their final form, even if "In Your House" wasn't yet called that. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteYeah its a nice little snapshot of where they were at; moving on from an album he wasn't happy with, to the next one and a change of sound. Glad you enjoyed it, cheers!
DeleteInteresting that they did 3 encores...and repeated 2 songs. The Disintegration album is when I really got into The Cure, but they have so many great songs from all over the years.
ReplyDeleteSounded like (from what Mr Smith said) they had only learned so many songs for the tour, so were a bit stuck for the encores. OMD did the same on the 1980 Berlin show on this site. :-)
DeleteThis sounds fantastic..thank you
ReplyDeleteThanks, glad you enjoyed it.
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