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.

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Friday, 19 July 2024

Show 206 - The Jam - Live At Pinkpop Festival, Netherlands - 26 May 1980

 

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
Most of this was a radio broadcast I was sent. I realised after a bit of research that 2 songs were missing, so looked around the web for another recording. And there was another one, which included those missing tracks - but omitted some of Start!. And it was quite inferior in quality - it was in stereo but sounded more like it was from the audience, not a radio broadcast, although it was still in stereo, at least.


What Was Done
I worked on the main recording first of all and got that to a state I was happy with, then worked on the missing tracks. I had to remove a lot of ambience on those to make the band sound louder, then I noticed the stereo image was reversed from the radio broadcast - the bass and guitars were on the opposite side. So I turned those around, then worked on the sound a lot to make it blend better with the rest of the gig. Then I worked on blending in the songs at the right time, so it didn't sound like too jarring a change each time. Then I mastered everything. 

This is now the complete show. And it sounds pretty awesome, as do the band themselves. There are actually 3 parts of this recording that have been brought in to make the complete gig - see if you can spot them all...


The All Important Download Link

You can now download or stream this repaired, restored and remastered show as one 320kbps MP3 file exclusively for FREE by clicking right HERE.

Setlist

Thick As Thieves
Saturday's Kids
To Be Someone (Didn't We Have A Nice Time)
Burning Sky
Start!
Going Underground
Mr. Clean
Private Hell
Smithers-Jones
Little Boy Soldiers
But I'm Different Now
The Eton Rifles
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
The Modern World
'A' Bomb in Wardour Street
All Mod Cons
David Watts


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4 comments:

  1. FanMael24 July 2024 at 05:32

    I was there.

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    1. Flip Martian24 July 2024 at 10:54

      Always good to hear from people who were at the gigs I do!

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  2. Parry29 July 2024 at 00:42

    Thanks so much. You did a great work with this one, despite it isn't the full show. I think you're missing two more tracks at least. This is the setlist I know:

    01. Thick As Thieves
    02. Saturday's Kids
    03. To Be Someone (Didn't We Have A Nice Time)
    04. Burning Sky
    05. STaRt!
    06. Going Underground
    07. Mr. Clean
    08. Private Hell
    09. Dreams Of Children
    10. Smithers-Jones
    11. Little Boy Soldiers
    12. But I'm Different Now
    13. When You're Young
    14. The Eton Rifles
    15. Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
    16. The Modern World
    17. 'A' Bomb In Wardour Street
    18. All Mod Cons
    19. David Watts

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    1. Flip Martian29 July 2024 at 02:46

      Hi, thanks for writing. Interesting! I looked all over online and found several versions and setlists but none mentioned Dreams of Children or When You're Young. Ah well. If you have a recording of that gig with those 2 tracks on, do let me know and I'd happily explore doing some extra surgery.

      Glad you enjoyed it anyway! Cheers!

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