LOCATION: Lower Balcony on Adam's side.

Disc 1:
1. Hawkmoon 269
2. Desire
3. All Along the Watchtower
4. Bullet the Blue Sky
5. Running To Stand Still
6. All I Want Is You
7. Where the Streets Have No Name
8. I Will Follow
9. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
10. MLK
11. One Tree Hill
12. God Part II

Disc 2:
1. Bad
2. October
3. New Year's Day
4. Pride (In the Name of Love)
5. Encore Break
6. Angel of Harlem
7. When Love Comes to Town

NOTE (by kennerado, distributed with .flac files): If you are not very familar with Lovetown, then you are in for a treat. The 1st Leg Lovetown shows in Australia and New Zealand were U2 at their best. The band played with more passion and energy than ever before. Setlists were totally mixed up every night and improvisation was not uncommon. Unfortunatly not many people recognise Lovetown for what it was due to the lack of good recordings (specifically the 1st leg). Recently a member of this site called George aka boyacrobat posted a message saying that he taped almost every Melbourne Lovetown show with the exception of the 9th. He also taped a couple of Sydney shows I believe. Anyway these tapes were kept hidden from the U2 trading community for almost 2 decades.

George got a copy of the infamous "Rocks Hottest Ticket" Chicago bootleg around 3 months after it was recorded, this recording inspired him to tape these shows with a goal of getting something that sounds even better than that famous Chicago recording.

This recording misses out on the last 3 songs because George used another tape to record them, unfortunatly he misplaced this tape so the show is incomplete. This is a very good recording however George has repeatedly told me that the quality of recordings get better as the nights go on.

The music here has not been "cleaned" in any way, what was recorded is what you get.  It is requested that if anyone does any remastering, creates a matrix with other available versions, etc, that they kindly send boyacrobat aka George a copy of their work.
 

NOTE (by boyacrobat, distributed with October 12, 1989 .flac files):

TAPING EQUIPTMENT:

These shows were recorded with a toshiba portable cassette recorder with an external stereo clip on (t bar looking mic) that was covered with stocking material.  Experimented at band rehersals to find mic was best used like this to capture sound.  Difference was a warmer, not as harsh sound.  I'm a fan of bass in audience recordings, and the stockings helped with bottom end.  Maybe not for everyone.  I strongly suggest tapers experiment with their equiptment. The mics were richer in the mid frequencies without the stockings on, so i had to find a way of getting more of a balance of high, mids and lows...Again, stockings wrapped around mic (roughly 8 to 10 mm thickness around mics).  Cannot remember the model and make of mic used in recordings. Have lost or misplaced equiptment over the years.

SOUND:

The mics did clip in the mid frequencies giving the recordings some natural overtones adding to the recordings atmosphere, i tried to eliminate that as much as i could, the mic input sensitivity switch on the recording device was set too high.  There is crowd noise of course but it adds to the show's atmosphere.  The recordings have something about them that makes them rather unique, I feel. At the end of the day, they are what they are. Joe O'Herlihy certainly pulled an awsome sound out f.o.h. at the Tennis Centre for those Melbourne shows.