U2 Live at Werchter Festival 83 [FM Broadcast & SBD-AUD matrixed missing tracks]
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U2
Werchter, Belgium
Festival Grounds
July 3, 1983
War Tour
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What's new in this bootleg ? Nothing much except a complete version of a classic U2 1983 festival concert.
This bootleg is based on Ricku2’s 2007 capture on dutch radio (Radio 2 re-Broadcast). Ricku2's capture is an excellent FM recording but misses 2 songs : Surrender and 40.
Then, I worked on a matrixed version of the 2 missing tracks to complete the performance in its entirely (a full-hour set). As the songs were quite out of step with the rest in terms of sound quality (sound nice but really not on the same level as the rest), Surrender and Forty were incorporated as bonus tracks.
As for the mix, I've chosen to set the AUD source quite low (20%). It gives SBD recording some space. Sources are good quality but still, nothing compared to the 2007 FM broadcast recording.
A bonus track is offered for free ! It is there to honour the good old tradition when pressed audio bootleggers used to put (luckily... or not) additional songs...!
This bonus track is also a matrix recording (London 1982) to keep the whole project coherent. But don't expect a full SBD / AUD matrix for that concert (just a simple test, isn't worth going further IMO cause SBD recording alone is close to be perfect).
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Tracklist :
01 Out Of Control
02 Twilight
03 An Cat Dubh
04 Into The Heart
05 Two Hearts Beat As One
06 New Year's Day
07 Sunday Bloody Sunday
08 Gloria
09 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
10 I Will Follow
11 Surrender (matrixed version)
12 Forty (matrixed version)
13 A Celebration (Bonus - London 1982 matrixed version)
Quality :
- Tracks 01-10 : EX+ SBD
- Tracks 11 & 12 : VG/EX MTX
- Track 13 : EX+ SBD
Sources :
- Tracks 01-10 : 2007 rebroadcast Radio 2 (dutch FM radio) captured and shared by Ricku2
Digital Cable Receiver -> Connected with scart to Soundcard -> wav (recorded with Audacity) -> cd-wave (to split the big wav file) -> flac
- Tracks 11 & 12 : "Somewhere In Summertime (Werchter '83)" - (Original "KRO Rocktempel" broadcasts, repaired again - 2018 - BigGIRL / E. Naulaerts)
+ AUD source - master AIWA by Minimax
- Track 13 : u21982-12-06.flacf - London (Westwood One, no commercials)
+ AUD source u21982-12-06.shnf - London (D6, Audience) by Michael Beaton
Mix : SBD (80%) + AUD (20%)
Complete concert : Yes
Total running time : 63:32
[ Additional track (#13) : SBD / AUD mix - Live in London 1982 ]
Quality : EX+ SBD (80%) + EX+ AUD (20%)
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Audio process
FLAC > Audacity in 32-bit float
> 2007 FM capture : DJ intro/outro left out + fade-in/out
> Other sources : tempo adjustment, time-aligning, little EQ, normalization
> Fades-in/out
> Export to 16-bits-FLAC
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sept 10th 2025
portissol83 (aka billcarter)
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ORIGINAL INFO TXT FILE
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(Dutch) Radio 2 Broadcast
Digital Cable Receiver > Connected with scart to Soundcard > wav
(recorded with Audacity) > cd-wave (to split the big wav file) -> flac
Captured by Ricku2
00. Intro by Radio DJ
01. Out Of Control
02. Twilight
03. An Cat Dubh
04. Into The Heart
05. Two Hearts Beat As One
06. New Year's Day
07. Sunday Bloody Sunday
08. Gloria
09. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
10. I Will Follow
11. Outtro by Radio DJ
This is a rebroadcast of the U2 performance at the Werchter Festival
in 1983... unfortunately two songs were left out of this rebroadcast..
I also included the intro and outtro but you can just delete them or skip
them if you don't want to hear it....