Magnetic Fields
Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
3 October 2004

Source: ECM-717>D8
Transfer: Sony 55ES>[optical]>Soundblaster Live! 5.1>Wavelab>Audacity>CDWave>FLAC
Taper: Yousef

Tracklisting:

1. I Was Born
2. I Don't Believe In The Sun
3. A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off
4. I Looked Al Over Town
5. Come Back From San Francisco
6. I Don't Really Love You Anymore
7. All The Umbrellas In London
8. If You Don't Cry
9. Born On A Train
10. I Wish I Had An Evil Twin
11. I Don't Believe You


1. Suddenly There Is A Tidal Wave
2. All My Little Words
3. Strange Powers
4. I Thought You Were My Boyfriend
5. A Pretty Girl Is Like
6. Swinging London
7. Smoke and Mirrors
8. The Book Of Love
9. Reno Dakota
10. If There's Such A Thing As Love
11. Papa Was A Rodeo
12. All I Want To Know
13. It's Only Time
14. Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
15. I Die

Line-up:

Stephin Merritt - vocals, ukulele
Claudia Gonson - piano, vocals
John Woo - guitar, banjo
Sam Davol - cello

Notes:

Audacity was used to smoothly fade down the audience noise between songs, Wavelab was used to do the main fades, one crossfade (see below) and normalize to 0dB.

The first three tracks have a slightly higher noise floor as they were taped with the mic plugged into the line-in socket on the D8. As it became clear how quiet the gig would be, I changed to mic-in - this transition has been masked with a crossfade.

A fantastic gig and a remarkably clear recording - don't let the Sony mic put you off: you couldn't ask for a better record of the Magnetic Fields' first British gig outside of London. Ostensibly a show to promote the "I" LP, the set leans heavily on the classic "69 Love Songs" collection as well as taking in some earlier works, forming an excellent introduction to the band.

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