The Cure – Manchester, England (04/27/82)

the Cure
27.04.1982
UK, Manchester – Apollo Theatre

Setlist :
Mainset :
the figurehead
the drowning man
m
the hanging garden
in your house
cold
other voices
Siamese twins
three imaginary boys
primary
at night
one hundred years
a short term effect
play for today
a forest
pornography

Encore 1 :
10.15 Saturday night
killing an Arab
all mine

Band :
Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Laurence Tolhurst

Pink Floyd – Manchester, England (06/22/69)

Pink Floyd
June 22nd 1969
Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England

  1. [02:53] Daybreak (Part 1)
  2. [01:06] Work
  3. [02:45] Afternoon
  4. [03:33] Doing It!
  5. [05:30] Sleeping
  6. [07:45] Nightmare
  7. [01:50] Daybreak (Part 2)

The Journey

  1. [03:20] The Beginning
  2. [07:27] Beset By the Creatures of the Deep
  3. [05:34] The Narrow Way
  4. [01:53] Behold the Temple of Light
  5. [08:11] The End of the Beginning

Encore

  1. [11:42] Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun [63:36] Total

The Police – Manchester, TN (06/16/07)

The Police
June 16, 2007
Bonnaroo Music Festival
Manchester, TN

source: Schoeps mk4 (DIN) > kc5 > cmc6 > Lunatec V2 > Sound Devices 702 (24/48)
location: slightly right of sbd
transfer: .wav > Spark XL 2.82 (fades, tracking, dither, resample) > xACT > .flac (16/44)

Disc 1
01 Message In A Bottle
02 Synchronicity II
03 Walking On The Moon
04 Driven To Tears
05 Voices Inside My Head ->
06 When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What’s Still Around
07 Truth Hits Everybody
08 Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
09 Wrapped Around Your Finger
10 The Bed’s Too Big Without You

Disc 2
01 De Do Do Do De Da Da Da
02 Walking in Your Footsteps
03 Can’t Stand Losing You
04 Roxanne
05 Crowd/Encore Break
06 King Of Pain
07 So Lonely
08 Every Breath You Take
09 Next To You

total time: 1 hour 42 min.

Arcade Fire – Manchester, TN (06/10/11)

Arcade Fire
2011-06-10
What Stage
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
Manchester, Tenn.

Avantone CK-1 (cardoid) > Fostex FR-2LE (24/48)
FOB/DFC; mics at ~ 9′ high
CF > HDD > DropBox > HDD > Wavelab 6 > CD WAVE > FLAC > Traders’ Little Helper> MP3@320

Taped by: willsfc
Transferred and Seeded by: MSTaper
*** A Team Dirty South Recording ***

Set List:

01 intro
02 Ready to Start
03 Keep the Car Running
04 Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
05 No Cars Go
06 City With No Children
07 Rococo
08 Haiti
09 Intervention
10 The Suburbs
11 The Suburbs (Continued)
12 Month of May
13 Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
14 We Used to Wait
15 Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
16 Rebellion (Lies)
17 encore break
18 Wake Up
19 Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

Running Time: 1:31:23

Beady Eye – Manchester, England (03/06/11)

Beady Eye
The o2 Apollo
Manchester, England
6th March 2011

Taper : Johnky
Rig : Ata31b > Edirol R09-HR > SD CARD > Sound Forge 8.0 > CDR MASTER >FLAC>MP3

Length : 61.31

01. Intro
02. Four Letter Word
03. Beatles And Stones
04. Millionaire
05. For Anyone
06. The Roller
07. Wind Up Dream
08. Bring The Light
09. Standing On The Edge Of The Noise
10. Kill For A Dream
11. Three Ring Circus
12. Man of Misery
13. The Beat Goes On
14. The Morning Sun
15. Sons Of The Stage

Not a great quality recording. There is a quite a bit of audience noise, etc. Interesting to hear how they sound live though.

Wilco – Manchester, TN (06/13/09)

Wilco
06/13/09
What Stage @ Bonnaroo
Manchester, TN

Source: DPA 4022 (FOB, 5′ ROC, 8′ up, ORTF) > Lunatec V3 (digital out) > Edirol R44 (24/48)

Transfer: SDHC Card > PC > Wavelab 5 (Fades, Resampled via resampler 192, MBIT+ Dither) > CD Wave > Trader’s Little Helper
Taped and Transfered by: Brian Hadella

Disc 1:

01. Wilco (the song)
02. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
03. Company in My Back
04. Handshake Drugs
05. Bull Black Nova
06. You Are My Face
07. One Wing
08. Pot Kettle Black
09. Side With the Seeds
10. Shot in the Arm
11. At Least That’s What You Said
12. Jesus, Etc
13. Impossible Germany
14. California Stars

Disc 2:
01. Misunderstood
02. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
03. Hummingbird
04. You Never Know
05. The Late Greats
06. Hate It Here
07. Walken
08. I’m the Man Who Loves You
09. Hoodoo Voodoo

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Manchester, TN (06/15/08)

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
06/15/08
Bonnaroo Music Festival
Manchester, TN

Rich Woman
Leave My Woman Alone
Black Dog
Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us
Through The Morning, Through The Night
So Long Goodbye To You
Fortune Teller
In The Mood
Black Country Woman
Bon Temps Roulez
Trampled Rose
Green Pastures
Down To The River
Nothin’
The Battle Of Evermore
Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On)
One Woman Man

I’m one of the few people I know who didn’t particularly care for Raising Sand. I had high hopes for it, though as I think about it I’m not sure why (I’m not much for Led Zeppelin, I know very little of Robert Plant as a solo artist, and while I love Krauss’ voice, her songs I usually find to be lousy.) Perhaps it was the hype, or perhaps I dug the idea of an old rocker teaming with the bluegrass queen. Whatever the reason, the record never did it for me.

I like parts of it, some of the songs are good and intellectually I dig the match-up plus the use of old blues numbers, but at the emotional gut level it leaves me kind of flat. The brooding, dark production didn’t help either. Every song felt like death knocking at the door. Which was maybe the point, but it sure didn’t make me want to listen.

This concert though, I like a lot more. The dark production is still there, but less so. In a live setting the songs breath a little more, the Tennessee sun is allowed to shine just a bit. Or maybe they just scatter in a few uptempo songs.

I particularly like their take on a couple of old Zeppelin songs. Listen closely to “Black Dog” it is less godofthunder then the original but a lot more spooky.