Level 42 - 2025-08-17 - Marktplatz, Worms, Germany - Jazz n Joy Festival

I saw Level 42 twice on their "Pursuit of Accidents" tour, around '82/'83, when they were relatively unknown rising youngsters. Next stop Worms 2025.

In the meantime they got famous, disbanded, re-united, comeback album in 2006, all that stuff...

Now here's the Mark King / Mike Lindup duo + hired guns, performing their 80's hits. Fair enough.

Anyway, the nostalgia virus hit me hard and it was a no-brainer when the show were announced ~25 km from my home and a ticket price of 30 � - for the entire sunday (with Emma Rawicz & some more)! And I loved it.

Sound is a bit 'open airy', but ok. In the beginning, my microphone was attacked by a few wind blasts, until (after track 4) I had the idea to put a sock (used as smuggling aid) on it. I managed more or less to remove resulting rumbles, you might notice a little lack of low frequencies at these spots.

Enjoy!

01 Heaven in My Hands 6:05
02 To Be With You Again 5:31
03 Running in the Family 4:20
04 Heathrow 4:32
05 The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up) 5:06
06 Children Say 5:17
07 It's Over 6:19
08 Love Games 12:28
09 Kansas City Milkman 7:36
10 Starchild 6:00
11 Something About You 5:09
12 Lessons in Love 4:26
13 The Chinese Way 4:48
14 Hot Water / Encore break 9:05
15 Mr. Pink 5:33

Total 1:32:08


Mark King - bass, lead voc
Mike Lindup - keys, lead voc
Nathan King - git, voc
Sean Freeman - saxophone, voc
Dan Carpenter - trumpet, voc
Nichol Thompson - trombone, voc
Pete Ray Biggin - drums

technical stuff:
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recording position: ~10m from PA, center
zoom h5 48 kHz 24bit / internal mics / clean input signal -> mastering (wavelab pro 12) -> flac 44 kHz 16 bit

mastering: eq, limiter

Recorded & mastered by wannerl

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