The Show
The venue was (and is) the HQ for Sveriges Radio (the Swedish national radio station), and this is a recording of a radio broadcast of the first of 3 gigs I can find mention of in Sweden that week. Long available as a 12 track vinyl bootleg, this is a recording of the complete broadcast and features 14 tracks.
What Was Done
The first track especially was in bad shape - tape dropouts (small gaps in the audio) every few seconds - that alone took several hours over a couple of days to fix. Fortunately the rest of the recording was in better shape. I balanced the stereo image, cleaned up the mix, made the bass and drums more audible and made everything generally clearer and more powerful.
2 things to note - a few seconds of the intro to The Wild, Beautiful And The Damned is missing, so I blended that in as best I could, and at the end, Fear In The Western World fades out around 3 minutes in (as it does on the original recording).
Given me doing this show this week was prompted by the recent news of the sad passing of bass player Chris Cross, it seems appropriate that this recording NOW is a great showcase for his talent - you can really hear his playing without it getting lost in the mix quite so much. I've had this bootleg on tape for many many years; it's nice to find a more complete version and to be able to make it sound this good. I hope you enjoy it.
The All Important Download Link
You can
now download or stream this repaired, restored and remastered version of
this show as one 320kbps MP3 file exclusively for FREE by clicking
right HERE.
Setlist
I Want To Be A Machine
Rockwrok
Slip Away
The Frozen Ones
Distant Smile
Young Savage
My Sex
The Man Who Dies Every Day
Artificial Life
Wide Boys
Saturday Night
The Wild, Beautiful And The Damned
Rockwrok
Fear In The Western World
Be sure to check out the other gigs from Ultravox I've restored HERE - all similarly downloadable for free.
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open, and helps me do more shows. Either way, enjoy the show.
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