The Police
The Arena at Manchester, UK
18th June 2008

01. Bring On The Night
02. Message in A Bottle
03. Walking On The Moon
04. Demolition Man
05. Voices Inside My Head
06. When The World Is Running Down
07. Don't Stand So Close To Me
08. Driven To Tears
09. Hole In my Life
10. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
11. Wrapped Around Your Finger

12. De Do Do Do De da Da Da
13. Invisible Sun
14. Can't Stand Losing You
15. (Crowd)
16. Roxanne
17. King Of Pain
18. So Lonely
19. Every Breath You Take
20. Next To You

Taper: chalkfarmer@yahoo.co.uk
Location: Block 107 (back left corner of arena)
Lineage: SP-CMC-1 > RS PS-1 > Edirol R09 (16bit/44KHz) > PC > Audacity (track
splits, fades, minor volume adjustments on clapping between songs,
normalise) > WAV > TLH > FLAC (Level 8)

I found an old SD card with the original of this on it. I'd originally
uploaded it here on Dime in 2008 but, on a recent listen, I figured I could
improve things a little and come up with some kind of 'remastering' so I've
brought it out of retirement.

The original had about 10 seconds missing from the intro to Bring On The
Night. I've replaced the missing section with Pabby's mono recording
(Lineage details etc. below) and reduced the volume of some of the individual
hand claps between songs (a fairly laborious task but the guy next to me had
a particluarly loud clap and I think the end result made it worthwhile!). I
was then able to normalise the file without these loud spikes skewing things
- which has boosted the levels quite nicely. Finally I re-aligned the track
boundaries and added a fade in and out.

At the time, I wasn't particularly impressed with the band's performance - it
was the 4th time I'd seen them on this tour and the set was getting a bit
tired, having grabbed every show uploaded here up til that point.

The band sounded pretty good - with the exception of Andy Summers who hit bum
notes in almost every song, like he really couldn't be arsed. Perhaps the
rumour I heard at the time about him & Sting having a bust up back stage at
Manchester was true afterall.

Listening to the show again, I'm really quite impressed (despite Summer's
performance) and am thankful that the crowd in our block (near the back
corner of the Arena) were not exactly animated and stayed pretty quiet.

Anyway - hope you enjoy it (artwork included in the torrent and samples in
the comments below).

Lineage for Pabby's 10 seconds: GreenMachine GM-Pro Mics (left mic only,
right mic faulty) > GM Battery Box > iRiver H120 (Rockbox v061206) >
SoundForge (v8.0d) (trim WAV, normalise, fade in/out, copy LH channel to RH)
> CDWave (v1.95.1) (tracking) > TLH (v2.4.1) > FLAC (level 8) > Foobar2000
(v0.9.4.2) (tagging)
Taper: PABBY Location: Centre of floor, 19 rows back


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