Mogwai Paradiso Amsterdam The Netherlands 30th January 2014 (2014-01-30) RECORDING: Type: Audience master, recorded 3 metres back from the left-hand side PA stack. Source: Factory-matched pair of Schoeps CCM 41V microphones (DINa mounted) -> Marantz PMD661 recorder with Oade Concert Mod (-18 dB gain/44.1 kHz/24 bit WAV) Lineage: Audacity 2.0.5 * Normalised to 0 dB. * Applied variable envelope amplification across recording for consistent listening experience. * Added fades. * Split tracks. * Converted to 16 bit. -> FLAC (compression level 8) [libFLAC 1.3.0 20130526] Taper: Ian Macdonald (ianmacd) SET LIST: 01. [05:16] Heard About You Last Night 02. [05:22] Rano Pano 03. [06:09] I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead 04. [06:41] Blues Hour 05. [05:46] Friend of the Night 06. [05:42] Deesh 07. [00:51] [banter] 08. [04:17] Killing All the Flies 09. [03:58] Master Card 10. [06:26] How to Be a Werewolf 11. [04:35] Auto Rock 12. [04:29] The Lord is Out of Control 13. [00:35] [banter] 14. [06:30] Remurdered 15. [02:55] [encore break] 16. [05:54] White Noise 17. [09:17] We're No Here Total running time: 84:53 NOTES: Tonight is my first gig of 2014 and, due to a lull in the Dutch live music calendar this winter, my first in almost two months. It almost feels as if I'm coming out of retirement. It's a bit of a watershed for me. With three small children and another on the way in a month or less, life is getting busier and busier, my free time an increasingly rare and precious commodity. It's going to be hard enough to attend and record all of the gigs I'm interested in this year. Finding the time to master them will prove trickier yet, while writing about them is, I fear, fated to become a luxurious exception, where previously it was the rule. Wary of the length of my hiatus from the taper scene, I make sure to perform extra checks at every step this evening, lest any insidious rustiness cause me to make a beginner's mistake that blows the mission. This marks the first continental gig of Mogwai's European tour and the first at which Forest Swords are providing the support. The duo ably warm up the crowd and provide this crusty old taper with the opportunity to assure himself that he still knows how to practise his arcane art. "Play something we know", shouts some Scottish bloke a few numbers into the set. His Mogwai discography clearly isn't up-to-date, because everything played this evening has been released and plenty isn't drawn from the band's latest album, the synth-heavy 'Rave Tapes'. I take his point, though. Tonight's set is thin on what one might call Mogwai classics. In fact, there's a palpable reservedness to the performance that I can't quite put my finger on. It's not as if the band ever leap about on stage and there's never much to see at one of their shows, and yet I can't quite shake the feeling that the performance is a little subdued, the band somehow holding back. It's reliably loud tonight, however, which makes short shrift of anyone who might have been planning to hold a conversation close to the PA, where I like to record from. Preemptive riddance! "A Change of plan", announces Stuart Braithwaite, before the band close the set with 'We're No Here'. What, no 'Mogwai Fear Satan'? Afraid not. Perhaps that was the change of plan that Braithwaite spoke of. They must not have received the memo that every Mogwai gig needs to feature that song. That's just how it is. The recording faithfully captures the crystal-clear and superbly mixed sound in the venue on the night. A respectful crowd and a dearth of talkers contribute to the quality and listening experience. As always, samples are included in the comments to assist in deciding whether or not to download this. App\Http\Controllers\Api\FileDownloadController::download(): Return value must be of type string, none returned