Jordan: the Soundboard. Dublin Point – December 9th 1990

A little Easter egg for the faithful here. There have long been rumours of a soundboard recording of the Jordan tour circulating. So here it, revealed after 27 and a bit years, and a pristine front-of-house mix straight off the desk.

Not without the odd fault here and there – there’s a bit of a wobble at the beginning of Cruel, and the bass is a little overcooked – but until the official live album surfaces, this is about the best you’ll hear the Jordan tour.

The newspaper review is a little wide of the mark (one might say he missed the point…) – this was the last night of the tour and a pretty riotous and fun gig by the sound of things.

31 thoughts

  1. Top quality Tim, would love to know where and how a recording of this quality pops up 27 years later.

  2. This is Amazing.Many Thanks for sharing.And They Do “One Of The Broken”,One Of My Favs.Love The Guitar Outro On “Goodbye Lucille #1” too ☺ Who Needs Easter Eggs !!!!!

  3. Really great! I’ve listened to it 2x now this morning, as I’ve been catching up on news/email/etc. Wonderful!

  4. Great recording. Third place after the BBC Reading Concert and BBC Cambridge concert.

    It may be me, but to my ears Paddy sounds like he has had enough of touring and sounds rather tired and not giving it his all in this concert….

  5. Hi there,
    hello from Canada! Is there a download link for this? I can’t seem to find it.
    Would love to hear this on a proper stereo, and in my car 😉
    Wow, never thought I’d hear audio from this tour.
    J:TC is my favourite!

  6. This is wonderful. Me and my wife who was then heavily pregnant with our now 27 year old son saw this tour at Cambridge Corn Exchange. Suzy’s seat was broken and we pointed this out to a steward after The Trashcan Sinatras finished their set. We weren’t very hopeful of anything happening but after 10 minutes or so the steward came back and apologised for the broken seat, but as the show was sold out there weren’t any others seats available..could we follow her please? She led us to a private box with arm chairs just to the right of the stage! What a great gig! We sang our hearts out all the way through.

  7. I’d like to get a copy of the recording as well.

    In lieu of having a key to the Tardis (dr. who’s time machine), I yearn for any performances I can get. I miss PS.

  8. I also notice the artefacts due to compression, so if there is any chance of a lossless version that would be great indeed!

    Thanks in advance and thanks for sharing this great recording!

  9. Absent a link for a download. the only way to listen to this in your car is to open this page on a browser on your phone and play it through bluetooth. Please add my name to the list of those that would welcome a lossless version to download. Thanks.

  10. If anybody’s interested, here’s a link to this show in Apple Lossless format. It killed me that the only way I could listen to this was to stream it so I finally motivated and used Streaming Audio Capture to capture the stream as a wav. file. Took the wav. file and tracked it in Audacity then converted to Apple Lossless as I listen mostly via iTunes. Feel free to convert to flac, wav, mp3, whatever you want. The entire show is here. The link will expire on December 5, 2022 so grab it as soon as you can. Enjoy!

    https://wetransfer.com/downloads/28cf6630f6f10eef5fa3a9aaf283e69020221128195418/4ed2448a4df2cd81ce26f4c7acd9a90120221128195419/b6577d

  11. Funny enough, I just did a similar thing. I captured the playback into my DAW (Cockos Reaper) and then I rendered it into an mp3 for my iTunes (Windows) library. Anyone can do the same with the shareware audio app Audacity (Mac/Windows/Linux). The quality of this capture right off the FOH (Front of House) soundboard is quite good along the lines of the Cambridge Corn Exchange concert.

    Responding to some of the comments above about how this recording exists and why it took 27-years to surface. Well, the truth be told, just about all concerts are recorded from the soundboard by the FOH mix engineers. Then the sound engineers trade them among themselves. They have collections of countless concerts. This Dublin concert recording was probably sitting in a drawer unnoticed until it was finally traded with another engineer who is actually a Prefab Sprout fan. Then boom! We get this mana from heaven decades later as it is shared out… FINALLY! Only a deep Prefab Sprout would even know there are no other bootlegs from this tour, but I bet ya donuts to Dollars (Pounds, Euros) there are others out there.

    I found it interesting that there is what sounds like a CD tracking error in the opening seconds of Cruel. I thought that my DAW had corrupted the capture, but it is innate in the recording between (00:33 – 00:45). Fortunately, it sorts out quickly, but it is still an annoyance. La vida…

  12. Good god the PERCUSSION on this tour is SICK. Those kick gallops, bongos, chimes, and cowbells bring a whole different layer of Rollmo to these songs. I love it.

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