Show 198 - Fun Boy Three - Live At The Sartory-Säle Köln - 11 May 1983

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 just steal it, cut out the intro and outro and take the credit. Thanks.

The Show
A Rockpalast TV broadcast from German television. Like almost all TV broadcasts back then, this was in mono. The original show can be watched here on YouTube.

What Was Done
The recording was generally in good shape for a VHS recording nearly 40 years old but was fairly murky and muddy, lacking in low and high frequencies. Volume was also a bit up and down in places and more on the right than the left (a mono soundtrack but recorded on a stereo VHS so there were 2 channels of mono). Once the volume was leveled out and the 2 channels balannced, I got to work with EQ and the usual studio toys to bring some clarity to the sound mix, so bass, drums, vocals, especially were more audible and everything was clearer. And made one or 2 other little fixes at the beginning and end, so the show flows better. Finally, I mastered to make it clearer still and more powerful overall, and much "wider". The result is very very listenable now.

As always, the show is available to download or stream for free as a single 320kbps MP3. Just hit the link:

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Setlist
Faith, Hope and Charity                
The Pressure of Life (Takes the Weight Off the Body)                          
The Telephone Always Rings                 
The Farmyard Connection I                    
This Is My Home                            
The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum)
Things We Do                               
Alone                                      
Well Fancy That!                            
Summertime                                 
Alibi                                      
Our Lips Are Sealed                       
The Tunnel Of Love                         
We're Having All The Fun                   
Gangsters                                  
It Ain't What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It)
The More I See (The Less I Believe)         
The Farmyard Connection II                     
Best Of Luck Mate

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