BOB DYLAN
26 April 2011
Byron Bay Bluesfest
MoJo Stage
Tyagarah, New South Wales, Australia

CD 1

1. intro
2. Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking
3. It Ain’t Me, Babe
4. Rollin’ And Tumblin’
5. Tangled Up In Blue
6. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
7. Spirit On The Water
8. Cold Irons Bound
9. Desolation Row
10. Summer Days

CD 2

1. Simple Twist Of Fate
2. Highway 61 Revisited
3. Ballad Of A Thin Man
   encore
4. Like A Rolling Stone
5. Forever Young

recording details
taper: audiowhore
lineage: SP-CMC-8 > Samson PM-4 > Minidisc (Sony MZ-NH1) > Creative Sound Blaster Premium HD external soundcard > Adobe Audition
taping location: in front of the sound desk
total recording time: 1 hour 38 mins 35 seconds
A ‘rough transfer’ version of this recording was circulated to a limited circle of Bob collectors in May 2011 on the understanding that it not be torrented or further shared.
This version supersedes that earlier one. It is a new transfer made with a superior sound card and noticeably improved sound quality to the ‘rough transfer’ version.

Concert details
This concert occurred on the 6th day of the 2011 Bluesfest.
Bob played from 9 – 10.30pm and was the final act of the festival.
Australian acts Gurrumul and Paul Kelly peformed before Bob.
The MoJo Stage was the largest of the 5 stages at this festival.
It was a massive circus tent providing shelter from the storm outside (see below).

The Byron Bay Bluesfest 2011 was held on the Tyagarah Tee Tree Farm which is located 11 kilometres north of Byron Bay in northern New South Wales. The festival site can accommodate 17,500 festival visitors per day and 6,500 campers.

The site is a fully operational Tea Tree Farm for most of the year and turns into the Bluesfest site for a few weeks before, during and after the Easter Festival weekend each year.
http://www.bluesfest.com.au/

Information about how this concert came about
The 6th day of the festival (and Bob’s second show) was added to the original 5 day schedule after a number of events.

Firstly, day 5 sold out quickly and the promoter stated that there was a high demand for a second Bob show at the festival. This could only occur if the festival was extended due to Bob having prior shows in Melbourne and Wollongong during the earlier days of the festival.
An application to the Byron Shire Council was submitted and it was advised that this would be considered at the council’s next meeting which was scheduled for 10 February 2011.

The festival promoter stated that he needed a decision sooner than that and demanded that all councillors and council staff return from their Christmas holidays in order to decide on his application. The promoter then threated to take the councillors to court if they did not do so.

Several returned from oversees holidays in order a attend a newly convened ‘Extraordinary meeting’ which was held on 6 January 2011.
See- http://www.byron.nsw.gov.au/meetings/2011-01-06-extra
The promoter praised the council’s decision to approve his application and advised that he would announce details of the extra 6th day after he had returned from his oversees holiday.

Details of the 6th day were then announced on 1 February 2011.
The added half-day program saw a much smaller turn-out than expected and the day was marred by prolonged torrential rain.
The festival site became a muddy bog difficult to walk through and the smell of raw sewage permeated. In particular the area where food vendors were set up near the entrance to the Mojo Stage turned into a stinking swamp that made it hugely difficult for any hungry punters to actually stand in this area without sinking into the smelly mud.
No provisions such as covering the mud with straw or hay were made by the promoter.