This is an Irish Town

Fleet Center

Boston (Massachusetts), USA.

24 - May - 2005.

Attendance: 17.219 (sellout) - Support: Kings of Leon

Disc 1 (60:16)

01. Wake Up (PA) / Everyone (PA)

02. City of Blinding Lights

03. Vertigo / Stories for Boys

04. Elevation

05. Cry / The Electric Co.

06. The Ocean

07. Beautiful Day

08. Miracle Drug

09. Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own

10. Love and Peace or Else

11. Sunday Bloody Sunday

12. Bullet the Blue Sky

Disc 2 (61:42)

01. Running to Stand Still

02. Pride (In the Name of Love)

03. Where the Streets Have No Name

04. One

05. Zoo Station

06. The Fly

07. Mysterious Ways

08. All Because of You

09. Yahweh

10. "40"

Recording Equipment - History

OKM IIr > A3 > Sony D100

Taper: MassU2

Location: GA (inside the elipse)

Transfer: D100 > 7 pin cable > Philips CDR775

Mastering: daveydave

Conversion: EAC Ver. 0.9 > WAV > CEP 2.0 > CDWAVE > mkw Audio Compression (SHN) 
Verified: shntool 2.0.3
Notes: Centered Wave, NORMALIZED TO: -0.02db / 99.77%

Special notes: Before Normalizing, used CEP to decrease volume by -1db on right channel in millisecond intervals (.001 - .003 range only). This was done due to clipping. All clipping was produced on right channel due to the tapers proximity to a clapper which pushed the levels over.

Comments

Fantastic audience recording for the first of three shows at the Fleet Center in Boston (MA, USA). This is a very crisp and solid source, with music and vocals coming through really powerful. Moreover, the instruments capture is absolutely clean throughout the tape, except for the low frequencies, slightly muddy on a few concrete spots. Audience noise is minimal, although some clappers and stray voices are audible a couple of times. To sum up, a pretty brilliant tape.

This concert features a standard setlist, and changes or surprises would come in the next shows at the same venue. Anyway, the live feeling is excellent, with the band putting on display they love rocking the city.