Elvis Costello - 1983-10-17 London (Pre-FM)

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Elvis Costello & the Attractions (w/Afrodiziak & the TKO Horns)
Hammersmith Palais
London, UK
10.17.1983
EN pre-FM+FM remaster

01 Let Them All Talk
02 Possession
03 Watch Your Step
04 The Greatest Thing
05 Man Out of Time
06 Shabby Doll
07 From Head to Toe 
08 Charm School
09 Oliver's Army
10 Shipbuilding
11 The World and His Wife
12 Alison
13 Clowntime Is Over
14 Everyday I Write the Book
15 TKO (Boxing Day)
16 Pump It Up

Total time: 1:02:43

Elvis Costello & the Attractions:    
Elvis Costello – vocals, guitars
Steve Nieve – keyboards
Bruce Thomas – bass
Pete Thomas – drums

The TKO Horns:
Jim Paterson – trombone
Jeff Blythe – alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, clarinet
Paul Speare – tenor saxophone, flute
Dave Plews – trumpet

Afrodiziak: 
Caron Wheeler, Naomi Thompson and Claudia Fontaine – backing vocals

Tracks 01-15 sourced from a boot CD made from pre-FM BBC transcription LPs
Track 16 sourced from a master FM cassette of the original live BBC broadcast

original lineage: 
(Tracks 01-15): BBC transcription LPs > unknown transfer method > Liberated CD Boot "Riot Act '83" (PostScript - PSCD1187) > FLAC files (web download), tested with TLH > fingerprint files (xACT)

(Track 16): Aiwa 8300 Stereo FM Tuner > Sony Cassette Deck > Sony Chrome Tape > Aiwa Cassette Deck > PC 16 Bit 44 kHz WAV recording > FLAC 

boot CD art included (from Bootlegsource)

amended lineage: 
(Tracks 01-15) original fileset > Sound Forge 9 remastering > re-FLAC'd > DIME > you
(Track 16): original file > Sound Forge 9 remastering > re-FLAC'd > DIME > you 
 
10.17.2014
EN remaster notes:

I was reading that the BBC was incorporated on October 18th, 1922 and thought of this incendiary Elvis Costello performance -- where he's got the big band with the background vocalists and the whole horn section -- recorded for that venerated broadcasting service precisely 61 years (minus one day) later, on October 17, 1983. Seeing as one good anniversary deserves another, I dusted it off and set about repairing its many flaws, vinyl pops and dropouts, as well as appending the last song -- not included on the boot CD of the original transcription LPs but recorded off the air onto cassette when the show went out live and exceeded the allotted hour -- back onto the end of the set. 

A bunch of remastering went on, as I tried to match the pre-FM source with the FM-sourced final track, which I felt had the horns more brassy and prominent somehow, perhaps due to the FM compression but who knows? The pre-FM source sounds awesome but lacked gain and needed more on top for the horns to really break through, so I went in that direction without changing it too much. Anyway I think I've got it sounding nice and punchy crisp now, so enjoy and thank you BBC for 92 years of great music on radio, and thank you Elvis Costello for this ferocious concert from the first night of the "Punch the Clock" tour 31 years ago, aired on the BBC!