The Smiths - Brixton Academy, London - 24.10.1986 (Flac)

Good sound, thanks to the original uploader.

Original Info file:

TDK D90 Tape>Denon DRM-400 Cassette Deck> Creative Soundblaster Recorder>Adobe Audition
>CD Wave Editor>Traders Little Helper>Flac Level 8

Side A
01.intro
02.The Queen Is Dead
03.Panic
04.I Want The One I Can't Have
05.Vicar In A Tutu
06.There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
07.Ask
08.His Latest Flame/Rusholme Ruffians
09.Shakespeare's Sister
10.Frankly, Mr. Shankly
11.The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
12.Rubber Ring/What She Said
13.Is It Really So Strange?

Side B
14.Cemetry Gates
15.London
16.Meat Is Murder
17.I Know It's Over
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18 The Draize Train
19.How Soon Is Now?
20.Still Ill
21.Bigmouth Strikes Again



October 1986 and Smithsmania was at it's peak I had the bug bad,travelling to Canada to see them in
Toronto in the summer being a stunning highlight. It seemed as though the band had been touring
almost non stop for 3 years and it is truly remarkable to look through the amount of shows they performed. So, on the one hand,the live act had been honed to a considerable degree, on the other, fatigue and tensions were creeping in, but there was no hint that a couple of months later the band would perform live for the last time at the very same venue and despite recording the last (and best) album "Strangeways Here We Come" the following year,well, the rest is history.

Had some issues with this tape,it is marked Mixing Desk, and could very well be,judging by the low audience noise, Side A was fine, just needed a very minor boost to the right channel but Side B was very uneven, with lots of hiss on Morrissey's vocal, particularly on "Cemetry Gates" so i have remixed it using more of the channel that had less hiss...

I know this circulates in a few different versions, a couple do not include "Cemetry Gates" on them
maybe because of the noise issue, a complete version was upped at smithstorrent many years ago
but, i do not know how this new transfer compares. eternal thanks to the original taper.