Manic Street Preachers - 2007-12-08 NIA, Birmingham FLAC torrent

A really good sounding recording from last weekend's gig. Here are the original notes:

Manic Street Preachers
Toothpaste N' Burn

NIA, Birmingham
8 December 2007


Lineage: Sony ECN-719 mic > Edirol R-09 > Audition (cuts, normalising, adjusting balance & a little frequency adjusting to bring out the vocals - see below) >FLAC level 5

Position: Block 7 row Q seated about three yards from the mixing desk.

The NIA is one of the predominant West Midlands venues in the UK but I've always thought that the sound is a bit muggy on the mid ranges. This wasn't really helped by James Dean Bradfield's bout of flu. Therefore using Sonic Maximiser I've tried to pull the vocals out a little bit.

The title "Toothpaste N' Burn" is a reference to Nicky Wire's pain from forgetting his foundation and using toothpaste instead. What a tw@t! ;-)

Other interesting bits: a part cover of "She Sells Sanctuary" by The Cult & about 20 seconds of Ozzy Osborne's "Crazy Train" riff in homage to Birmingham.

Tracklisting:

01 Intro
02 Motorcycle Emptiness
03 Autumn Song
04 Everything Must Go
05 You Love Us
06 Roses In The Hospital
07 Ocean Spray
08 Slash N' Burn
09 Indian Summer
10 She Is Suffering
11 La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
12 1985
13 Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
14 Kevin Carter
15 If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next
16 Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
17 Everlasting
18 Send Away The Tigers
19 She Sells Sanctuary/Motown Junk
20 Little Baby Nothing
21 You Stole The Sun From My Heart
22 Crazy Train
23 The Masses Against The Classes
24 A Design For Life


Enjoy!

AWS

BTW: the MD5 file checks for both the FLAC & WAV files just in case you've chosen to uncompress the FLACs