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Teeth Grinder's Collection

Siouxsie & the Banshees   09/20/1976

100 Club Punk Festival, London, UK
Source AUD
Checksums 4d3d0b6ae07468e6b456a087e8f8071a *siouxsieandthebanshees_100clubpunkfestival-1976-09-20.flac
Media CD-R   1 disc
Tech Notes cassette(audience, unknown gen, received in a trade in 1990) > wav > Adobe Audition(dehiss) > wav > soundforge(eq & normalise) > wav > flac(8)
J-Card Comment Length: 24:19

Lineup:
Siouxsie - vocals
Steve Severin (known at the time as Steve Spunka) - bass
Marco Pirroni (later to become one of Adam's Ants) - guitar
Sid Vicious (then with Flowers Of Romance, later to become a Sex Pistol) - drums

This is a pretty historic recording - Siouxsie and the Banshees first concert. A shame the sound quality is so poor. I got the cassette in 1990 as an upgrade on the version I got in a trade 5 years earlier which was much worse, and it's a little more complete too. I'm told some versions are missing the ending, but this version has it. It's a pretty bad recording - one for obsessed fans only! It sounds like it was recorded with a really bad mic which is partly to blame for the quality. Many of the portable tape recorders available in 1976 were pretty low-tech compared with just a few years later and it's most likely recorded on the tape recorders built-in mic.

I dehissed it with Adobe Audition because my preferred dehisser (Groove Mechanic) did something weird with the first 7 minutes of the recording. Then it just needed a small amount of equalisation to sharpen up the top end and boost the bass a little, although it still sounds a little tinny but I couldn't increase the bass any more without making it sound worse so I left it as it is without trying to equalise further. On my tape someone turns up the recording level at 7:16 into the recording so I had to make different eq settings for that part, although it's not too noticeable.

It's 31 years since it was recorded, and if the taper used a cheap make of tape as so many people did back then, then the mastertape will probably have degraded into a pretty poor state. We can but hope that within the first few years a few copies were made onto a TDK or something like that. (My oldest cheap-make cassettes from 1979 have degraded very badly whereas my oldest good quality make (TDK) still holds up remarkably well).
Trades Allowed Yes   Traded from: Egg_Crisis
Ratings Show: *    Sound: B-
Reference / Generation EXT2
Lists Lossless Audiolist
Owned by Teeth Grinder · Last Updated May 23, 2023