Midnight Oil
1997-02-28
Botanic park stage 1 Adelaide

Beds Are Burning ( cuts in )
White Skin Black Heart
Dreamworld
Sins of Omission
Underwater
King of the Mountain
One Country ( partial break due to tape flip ) >
One Country
Eye Contact
Truganini
E-Beat
Warakurna
Peter G talks
Blue Sky Mine
The Dead Heart
Power and the Passion

The park was chock full of Oils fans picked in close to the stage and there was no way I could record the set near to the stage as my primitive recording rig wasn’t up to coping with the sheer volume of the Oils PA, they were LOUD , even up by the soundboards where I positioned myself.it was at least free of noisy drunken talkers as well as still being very loud, I just could hardly see the band but that really didn’t matter too much.
The sound is pretty good and improves as the set goes on , I’ve remixed it in 2022 with audio tools I did not have back in 1997 which has improved things a lot,if you had this before, I suggest you get this as a replacement. Its a stunningly good set.

Sony Ecm 150 mic> panasonic cheapo recorder jerry rigged with a volume pot >> Mac Pro> soundtrack 16> cd>
There were no recording levels to monitor on the deck ( which was stereo and would take chrome tapes ) so one had to just take a guess at how loud one was recording shows , I guess I was just lucky that the levels were not too loud, although I have run it all through VST declip which restored levels on some instruments and sounds I’d lowered earlier )
REMIX 2022. Adobe audition ( acon declip followed by audition multi-band compression and Acon declick for applause )
xact>sbe.flac 8
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