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Posted: Feb. 02 2007, 17:40

Hello everybody

I have added the Gothenburg show to the Oldfield Bit Torrent tracker
We have here one of the bests recordings from this part of the european tour
of 1982, also a
great performance. The audience was having a great time and doing his part in
the show (at the
start of Ommadawn for example). There were also funny things such as when
Maggie Reilly
introduced herself :)

From the setlist, I would like to highlight two songs. The first one being
Hergest Ridge, this
great piece was only played live in some shows from this tour (the orquestral
version is a
different thing). The other one is rarer than this. It is a mix of an early
mix of In High
Places (the official version would be released the following year) with Etude
(this had to
wait till 1984 to see the light in an official release). The whole thing was
introduced under
the name of In High Places in other shows, but in this one Mike simply
described it as "a song
about lepricorns", that's why the record calls this track this way.

If you didn't have this recording, or you have it in MP3 format, I strongly
recommend you to
get this torrent and own something that every Oldfield fan should have ;)

Artwork and FLAC Finger Print (FFP) checksum included. You can access to the
spectral view at
http://www.mytempdir.com/1195746, and to a sound sample at http://www.mytempdir.com/1195753.

Tracklist:
CD 1:
1. Tubular Bells (part 1) (24:50)
2. A Song About Lepricorns: In High Places/¨Xtude (11:07)
3. Platinum (parts 1 & 2) (9:01)
4. Conflict (3:40)
5. Ommadawn (part 1) (21:58)

CD 2:
1. Incantations (pt. 4 excerpt)/Hergest Ridge (pt. 2 excerpt) (9:20)
2. Sheba/Mirage (9:42)
3. Taurus II (24:54)
4. Five Miles Out (5:57)
5. Portsmouth/The Sailor's Hornpipe (5:03)
6. Orabidoo (excerpt) (7:20)

You can get it here:
http://btt.oldfield.es/torrents-details.php?id=42.
Please, leave a rate and a comment ;)
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Posted: Feb. 03 2007, 16:04

I've been waiting to hear that for a long time. It's the only known live performance of material from Hergest Ridge, isn't it? And in my home country to boot...

I thought it was just the "thunderstorm" section, but I was pleasantly surprised to hear that the "quiet" part after that was also performed (FMO-style).

Maggie makes a mess of Orabidoo, doesn't she? One can get enough of her scat-singing, but I bet it was Mike's idea!  :p

Anyway, thanks a lot for sharing this.


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Posted: Feb. 03 2007, 18:05

i have this one, but the quality is so bad.
I this good? :D
I will download it anyway...
Thanks Spinne for the link! You are the king of downloads man!
This show is also special for me,
imagine, i was only 1 year and he played in my neigbour country (søta bror, Sweden)  :cool:


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Posted: Feb. 04 2007, 10:19

Hello, Mario, and thanks very much for this. The sound quality is very similar to the mp3s I already had of this, but it's nice to have it in FLAC. :)
One little comment: when introducing "In high places/Étude", Mike does not say "A song about lepricorns", but "leprechauns" (i.e. elfs in Irish folklore). His comment about them being "magic people, very small" confirms this. ;) I noticed that the record cover also says "Lepricorns", this means that the original compiler was the one who got it wrong in the first place. :D

Also, please read the PM I sent you.


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Posted: Feb. 05 2007, 10:47

Quote (larstangmark @ Feb. 03 2007, 22:04)
I've been waiting to hear that for a long time. It's the only known live performance of material from Hergest Ridge, isn't it?

There are other shows in which HR was played and there are several recordings (Edinburgh, Helsinki (does anybody have a tape of this one?), Portsmouth...), but this is the one which have better sound quality and have been most distributed.

Quote (Tubularman @ Feb. 04 2007, 00:05)
i have this one, but the quality is so bad. I this good?
You have a sample MP3 on the torrent page so you can decide yourself if it worth to download the full torrent  ;)

Quote (Ugo @ Feb. 04 2007, 16:19)
The sound quality is very similar to the mp3s I already had of this, but it's nice to have it in FLAC.
If your MP3s are similar to mine you can notice that some bits are missing between files which is specially anoying at the start of Platinum and In High Places.

Quote (Ugo @ Feb. 04 2007, 16:19)
One little comment: when introducing "In high places/Étude", Mike does not say "A song about lepricorns", but "leprechauns" (i.e. elfs in Irish folklore). His comment about them being "magic people, very small" confirms this.
My knowledge about that topic is very poor, so I can't difference a goblin from a hobgoblin neither a lepricorn from a leprechaun. Thank you for the correction.

Hope everybody has enjoyed this show as much as I.
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