Editors - Efes Pilsen One Love Festival 2011

Istanbul Bilgi University Santral Campus

Istanbul, Turkey.

03 - July - 2011.

Efes Pilsen One Love Festival

Disc 1 (72:10)

01. Camera

02. Bones

03. Bullets

04. An End Has a Start

05. Two Hearted Spider

06. You Don't Know Love

07. The Racing Rats

08. No Sound But the Wind

09. Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool

10. Munich

11. Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors

12. Bricks and Mortar

13. In This Light and on This Evening

14. Papillon

15. Fingers in the Factories

Recording Equipment - History

Mikey clip-on microphone + Ipod > WAV > Audition > Audacity > TLH > FLAC (level-8)

Taper: Gomez

Location: stage left stacks

Additional notes (by the taper): Istanbul is becoming a stop on a lot of tours now and there's not much represented on Dime. I thought I'd pick up the slack. This festival was a two-day fest on the grounds on an old and beautifully restored power station along the edge of the Golden Horn in Istanbul. It was a lot of fun. The other bands on Saturday were The Happy Mondays, and Manic Street Preachers. Sunday was Cake, Editors, and Suede.

I decided I would try to tape the shows and borrowed a friend's Mikey microphone for the Ipod. Works very well actually for such a simple little clip-in mic. The first day I had problems with people speaking directly to me and all around me since the mic was right in my front pocket. Who goes to a show to spend two hours just talking to their friends? Crazy. The second day was better because I put it on top of an 8 foot perimeter wall aimed right at the stage left stacks.

Comments

Brilliant sound quality for such a simple gear. Music and vocals come through clear and strong and there's minimal crowd interference. The only minor to remark is that guitars are a bit lost in the mix, being somewhat muddy. The live feeling is pretty good, too.