The Police Leixlip Castle, Dublin 27.07.1980 Length: 69 Min Source: Mono Audience Quality: 7 Notes: Origin: chalkfarmer Fri 20th Apr, 2007 22:38 GMT - DAD (1:08:50) 01. Voices inside my head (1:09) 02. Don't stand so close to me (3:47) 03. Walking on the moon (5:37) 04. Fall Out (2:54) 05. Bring on the night (5:52) 06. De do do do de da da da (5:13) 07. Truth hits everybody (3:05) 08. The bed's too big without you (9:03) 09. Driven to tears (4:01) 10. When the world is running down... (5:13) 11. Message in a bottle (4:18) 12. Roxanne (7:28) 13. Can't stand losing you (8:59) 14. Next to you (2:05) In July 1980, The Police cut short the recording of Zenyatta Mondatta to play two outdoor shows; The first in England at The National Bowl in Milton Keynes on the 26th and the second at Leixlip Castle in Dublin on the 27th. By all accounts, it sounds like a pretty violent gig, starting with Sting yelling "Fuck Off" at someone during 'Voices inside my head' and trying to pick a fight with someone in the audience at the beginning of 'When the world is running down..'. It all comes to a head during 'Roxanne' when a bottle is thrown from the crowd and smashes over the drum kit, cutting Stewart's leg. Sting and Andy single out the perpetrator, yelling abuse at him and threatening him for a couple of minutes before resuming the song while Stewart gets patched up, rejoining them to play out the last chorus of the song. The quality of this recording is pretty poor - but I gather lossless copies of this show are pretty rare. One for the completists maybe - but an historic Police gig. This is the same gig referred to by The Edge in the foreward to Andy Summers' book - support acts on the day being: Squeeze, U2, Skafish and The Q Tips Received in a trade in 1985 - Lineage unknown. Transferred by Chalkfarmer http://www.freewebs.com/chalkfarmer ---- My copy *maybe* has some more highs but more hiss; basically is as bad as this one, so I'm keeping this because is already converted. Thanks Dave for the work ;) - Carlo. length expanded size cdr WAVE probs filename 1:09.31 12244556 --- -- -xx police-19800727-dublin-01.flac 3:47.35 40125164 --- -- -xx police-19800727-dublin-02.flac 5:37.48 59559740 --- -- -xx police-19800727-dublin-03.flac 2:54.24 30750092 --- -- -xx police-19800727-dublin-04.flac 5:52.42 62191628 --- -- -xx police-19800727-dublin-05.flac 5:13.68 55373180 --- -- -xx police-19800727-dublin-06.flac 3:05.06 32648156 --- -- -xx police-19800727-dublin-07.flac 9:03.62 95931068 --- -- -xx police-19800727-dublin-08.flac 4:01.03 42519500 --- -- -xx police-19800727-dublin-09.flac 5:13.05 55225004 --- -- -xx police-19800727-dublin-10.flac 4:18.58 45647660 --- -- -xx police-19800727-dublin-11.flac 7:28.61 79170716 --- -- -xx police-19800727-dublin-12.flac 8:59.13 95110220 --- -- -xx police-19800727-dublin-13.flac 2:05.31 22122956 --- -- -xx police-19800727-dublin-14.flac 68:50.37 728619640 B (totals for 14 files, 0.4907 overall compression ratio)