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Steeleye Span - Toasted

Oxfordshire, England - July 25, 2006 - CD-R2 - TBA

Disc 1: First Set [57:39]
  1. Intro
  2. Bonny Black Hare
  3. Cold Haily Windy Night
  4. Who Told the Butcher
  5. Who's The Fool Now
  6. I Live Not Where I Love
  7. The Scullion King
  8. Long Lankin
  9. Seagull
  10. Van Diemen's Land
Disc 2: Second Set [68:50]
  1. Intro
  2. Padstow
  3. Lord Gregory
  4. Nedd Ludd
  5. Betsy Bell
  6. Demon of the Well
  7. Lord Elgin
  8. Last House in Connaught > Lady of the House
  9. Tam Lin
  10. Hard Times of Olde England

Taper's Notes:

Recording:
Binaural Audience

Location:
Centre of ~seventh row

Lineage:
Core Sound Binaural Mics > Edirol R-1 Solid-State Recorder; 2GB Flash > 16bit, 44kHz WAV > Adobe Audition v1.0 (Conversion to 32bit for editing, reconversion to 16bit WAV) > Nero-6 Tracking & Burn w/verify > LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1633S > CD-R > EAC V0.95 prebeta 5 (w/offset correction) > WAV > FLAC Front-End V1.1.2 (Level-6, align on sector boundaires)

Editing:
No frequency equalisation performed, only level adjustments and fade-in/out.
Disk-1: Left +5.5dB; Right +9.0dB
Disk-2: Left +5.5dB; Right +6.5dB
A +3dB Hard Limit was applied to both disks to increase the sound levels at the expense of the local clapping.

Musicians:
Maddy Prior - vocals
Peter Knight - violin, keyboards, vocals
Rick Kemp - bass, vocals
Ken Nicol - guitars, vocals
Liam Genockey - drums, vocals

Notes:
This was a sweltering night, witness the on-stage comments to that effect! The venue is a small, intimate and historic building, which due to its proximity to the local residents, is forced to keep the (air-conditioning) doors closed during the performance. One literally dissolved in one's own water of crystallisation!

IMO, highlights are "Long Lankin" and "Demon Of The Well". Whilst I've always felt that Sandy Denny's version of "Tam Lin", with Fairport, was the definitive rendition, this is a sufficiently original arrangement to justify a new title.

Only one encore of the two expected was performed, I think both the band and the audience were pleased to get out alive!

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