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1990-01-05 Rotterdam05/24/2008 09:47:33 PM

Over the last month or two, I have received one persistent request - more music from the Lovetown era. Normally, I would readily satisfy such requests, but the Lovetown tour has one unique quality to it: very very very few actually good or better recordings. With all due respect to the dozens of tapers who captured and shared the Lovetown shows, most of them are not listenable. The quartet of shows in Dublin right after Christmas are almost the sole exception in terms of recording quality. Did the concerts suck? No! In fact, if you can force yourself to listen to an average Lovetown gig, you will find that many of the shows are highly enjoyable. It's just the overall recording quality is rarely up to my standards; I simply wouldn't share this stuff here.

So with such a persistent request for Lovetown material, I spent the better part of this week going through my collection trying to find a good or better recording that I had not already shared before. Let me tell you, it's not much fun to spend hours pouring over stuff that sounds like you are listening to an AM (not FM) broadcast of a guy with a cheap walkman using a built-in microphone standing at the far end of a large stadium with a dozen of his drunkest friends talking while their obnoxious kid sisters scream unintelligibly coming through your $10 pocket transistor radio from the '70s (and you are getting poor reception cuz your antenna is bent).

Welcome to Lovetown!

Gah! I almost gave up. Fortunately for my persistent requestor, I finally did find an acceptable show just this morning. It's the first of the Rotterdam make-up shows that took place in early January of 1990, in this case, the 5th. You can grab the torrent either by clicking the link up there on the top right-hand side, or just use this link to grab the torrent directly from the tracker. Enjoy!

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1. Gerard05/25/2008 03:22:19 AM
Homepage: http://www.u2start.com

And how fitting that this persistent requestee is the first to say many many thanks. How right you are about pretty much all LoveTown recordings. Theres practically nothing before Point that is considered good-very good. Such a shame to. This show is fantastic though. Thanks man

2. Gerard05/25/2008 12:35:39 PM

I've had this one sitting in utorrent for a day now and the download hasn't started. It's just in the red with no seeders or no peers. Any ideas?

3. Jason05/25/2008 12:42:51 PM

Try downloading the torrent directly from Pirate Bay. That seems to work when downloading the torrent from here fails. Not sure why. About a half dozen folks have finished the torrent, so at least that part is good. Seems the PB tracker is a bit wonky - the torrent was in the red for hours last night after I started seeding and this morning it had automagically switched itself to green/working.

4. Gerard05/25/2008 02:21:10 PM

Just got the link on PB. Still on red at the moment. I'll keep you informed

5. Gerard05/26/2008 07:58:56 AM

70% complete. Great stuff