The Cure - National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, UK - 20.09.1985 - MATRIX (Flac)

Excellent sound, combining two sourcs to make the recording more complete.

(BBC Radio 1 FM "In Concert" broadcast, apart from tracks marked * with asterisk)

Genuinely excellent FM radio broadcast quality (tracks 01 - 13 + 15 & 17 - my master FM captures)

Tracks 14 & 16 are from a silver bootleg of a different Swedish radio broadcast of the same concert, slightly equalised* in order to make them more compatible sound-wise with the rest of the FM master recording, and segued together into the other master FM tracks as well as possible.

Unfortunately, because of the extra tracks added from the silver bootleg of the Swedish broadcast, I had to run the SBE fixing thing in Trader's Little Helper, which probably means that all the tracks are now at least slightly different (i.e. shifted) to those in my capture of the original BBC broadcast as mentioned in the contrast clause above - sorry about that, but there would have been no other way of making this more complete matrix FM capture of the show without leaving gaps (i.e. short silences) in some of the songs otherwise.

*I thought the silver bootleg ones sounded a bit too "thin" (i.e. lacking in genuine bass frequencies) compared to my old FM capture ... but I may stand corrected on that ?! (could be the other way around!?)

Anyway, this version is now almost complete in SBD/FM form up to the end of the first encore, the only song missing is "100 Years" which in the actual show was played between "Screw" and "A Forest".


My own master FM recording (tracks 1-13, 15 & 17), as follows :-

Lineage:  BBC Radio 1 FM -> Roof Aerial -> Marantz ST151L Tuner -> Aiwa ADF770 3-Head Cassette Deck -> TDK-SA (Type II) cassette tape

Conversion to FLAC :-

Master TDK-SA source tape -> Aiwa ADF770 3-Head Cassette Deck -> SB Extigy soundcard -> CoolEdit Pro 2.1 -> WAV -> CD-R -> EAC -> WAV -> TLH -> FLAC 8 + .ffp

Tracks 14 & 16 :-

From "The 1985 European Tour" liberated silver bootleg, probably recorded from the Swedish FM broadcast, exact lineage unknown.

Conversion to FLAC :-

Silver bootleg CD-R copy -> EAC -> WAV -> CoolEdit Pro 2.1 (graphic equalisation [mainly bass boost] and slight amplitude increase) -> WAV -> TLH -> FLAC 8 + .ffp


Setlist:

 1. Baby Screams
 2. Play For Today
 3. A Night Like This
 4. Primary
 5. The Kyoto Song
 6. The Blood
 7. The Hanging Garden
 8. Cold
 9. In Between Days
10. Let's Go To Bed
11. The Walk
12. Push
13. Screw
14. A Forest *
15. Sinking
16. Close To Me *
17. Charlotte Sometimes

Total length of show: 73 mins approx.

*these tracks are not from my FM master, but from the silver bootleg "The 1985 European Tour" (probably sourced from a Swedish FM broadcast)



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