ANNOUNCE: 1986.07.05 Slane, Castle - Irish Magic Castle (audio + video)

Hello everyone !

This is the Slane Castle show, from the Magic Tour, as offered on the brand new Uxbridge release called "Irish Magic Castle". It contains 2 CDs and a DVD. You will also find the artwork and the various logs in the torrent.

QUEEN
1986.07.26 Slane, Castle

"IRISH MAGIC CASTLE"
Directly from the silvers.

Lineage (audio)  : "IRISH MAGIC CASTLE" silvers CD > WAV (EAC) > Flac level 8 (Traders Little Helper)
Lineage (video) : "IRISH MAGIC CASTLE" silvers CD > direct copy on the Hard Drive > torrent (correct me if the lineage should be indicated differently)

Comments : This is a show that I'm sure Queen members would have loved to forget. Lots of different things made that one a sort of nightmare : a fight in the audience, a concert given mostly in the daylight, political tensions that made "God Save The Queen" out of the setlist, Brian hit by a bottle of beer and not really enthusiastic to play the encores, and Roger amazed to see people drinking so much beer. Still, it is part of Queen's history, and of course Irish fans really deserved to see Queen live, so !
Lots of pictures, stories, reviews and details can be found on www.queenlive.ca and www.queenconcerts.com. Thanks for those websites guys !

Tracklisting :

CD1 :
01. One Vision
02. Tie Your Mother Down
03. In The Lap Of The Gods... Revisited
04. Seven Seas Of Rhye
05. Freddie Tried To Stop The Fight In The Audience
06. Day O
07. Tear It Up
08. A Kind Of Magic
09. Under Pressure
10. Another One Bites The Dust
11. Who Wants To Live Forever
12. I Want To Break Free
13. Impromptu
14. Gimme SOme Lovin' - Keep Yourself Alive
15. Guitar solo
16. Now I'm Here

CD2 :
01. Love Of My Life
02. Is This The World We Created
03. (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care
04. Helly Mary Lou (Goodbye Heart)
05. Tutti Frutti
06. Bohemian Rhapsody
07. Hammer To Fall
08. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
09. Radio Ga Ga
10. We Will Rock You
11. Friends Will Be Friends
12. We Are The Champions
13. Outro

DVD:
01. One Vision
02. Tie Your Mother Down
03. Freddie Tried To Stop The Fighting In The Audience
04. Day-O
05. Tear It Up
06. A Kind Of Magic
07. Under Pressure
08. Another One Bites The Dust
09. Gimme Some Lovin' - Keep Yourself Alive (excerpt)
10. Guitar solo
11. Now I'm Here
12. Love Of My Life
13. Is This The World We Created
14. (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care
15. Hello Mary Lou (Goodbye Heart)
16. Bohemian Rhapsody
17. Hammer To Fall
18. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
19. Radio Ga Ga
20. We Will Rock You
21. Friends Will Be Friends

Video attributes :
a .txt file is included in the torrent, in the main folder, called DVDattributes.txt, for you little experts out there ;o).

Here is my first (and most probably last) torrent here, I give it a try, hope this will work perfectly.
As my internet connection is not as good as I would like it to be, please accept my apologies if ever the upload speed was too slow for you. Be patient, thanks a lot. I'll give it my best !
Also, I have a limited disk drive space on my computer, I would have to keep my upload speed for further uploads here and there, so I probably won't be able to seed one for long, so let's hope you'll be able to back me up enough for other fellows who would like to download that. Thanks to seed as much and as long as you can, and to come back and add some help. I'll wait for some people to have it complete anyway, and will try to keep seeding as long as I can too.

The audio part will also be available on megaupload here :
CD1 (+ artwork, freq analysis, info.txt, FFps...)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SO95Y092
CD2 :
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ALNMVFSA

You'll find the DVD in the torrent, but I won't create megaupload link for the DVD, if someone wants to upload that, please feel free to do so, I would be happy if someone could deal with that. I don't have a connection good enough to upload so many things at a time ;o)

Enjoy, hope everything will work fine !

Regards,

Olivier,
Belgium.

Ps : I keep saying "silvers CD" in the lineage I give, but it is in fact "Pro-CDrs" to be completely correct. But how to distinct a Pro-Cdr from a CDr these days ? Anyway, www.queenonstage.com will allow you to see which bootlegs are silvers and which are Pro-CDrs. This is taken from the Pro-CDrs, not a copy from a copy from a copy from a copy...

Thanks for this, Olivier, and welcome to the world of torrents!  :)  Yours is working perfectly fine, if a bit slow, but this will pick up.  I downloaded the pro-CDRs from megaupload and integrated them into my torrent download, so anyone who doesn't like megaupload can go directly to the torrent, and hopefully it will help it move a bit faster.

I'm looking forward to seeing this!

Ginger01 wrote: Thanks for this, Olivier, and welcome to the world of torrents!  :)  Yours is working perfectly fine, if a bit slow, but this will pick up.  I downloaded the pro-CDRs from megaupload and integrated them into my torrent download, so anyone who doesn't like megaupload can go directly to the torrent, and hopefully it will help it move a bit faster.

I'm looking forward to seeing this!

You're wonderful, dear Ginger, as always !
Seems like your connection is waaaayyy better than mine, so your help is really appreciated !

Regards,

Olivier,
Belgium.

Does anyone have the Snow Producciones DVD version? It is *claimed* to be from the master-VHS

Luke

I don't have it.  And I highly doubt it's from the master.  These guys just started labeling the colour copies as master copies, and many sheep followed..

As for this bootleg, it's just as expected - a merge of sources.  But they didn't use mine.  They may have used it as a template, as they made the exact same edits I did.  They used the original non-channel-corrected copy of the first gen copy the main audience source, and did major hiss reduction on the higher gen copy and video source before patching the gaps.  Their edits between sources are smooth cross-fades, while mine were more abrupt.

Thank you very much

Thank you very much.

It s true that of this show exist a professional recording ?

Thanks for the upload. Interesting. I love the Irish stuff, obviously.

@ Luca

There was defiantly three pro cameras there that day, maybe a forth from RTE Ireland.

How much footage was recorded is a mystery, maybe somebody was doing a dry run for the upcoming Wembley shows.

Either way, there is no-way we will ever see any of the pro footage, if it still survives, it would not make any sense to release it with 1986 so well covered.

Thank you very much Olivier!!
I'm curious to see this one, I have the Snowprod. version and judging by the video I really don't think it's from the master, and also has a slightly "blocking" effect.

Thank you. Can somebody please upload the dvd to mediafire/rapidshare/megaupload?

Does somebody know where to buy the Uxbridge releases?

Hey Olivier, thanks a lot for the nice share ! So I guess your long-awaited package has arrived already :-)

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Sir GH wrote:[/QUOTENAME] As for this bootleg, it's just as expected - a merge of sources.  But they didn't use mine.  They may have used it as a template, as they made the exact same edits I did.  They used the original non-channel-corrected copy of the first gen copy the main audience source, and did major hiss reduction on the higher gen copy and video source before patching the gaps.  Their edits between sources are smooth cross-fades, while mine were more abrupt. [/QUOTE]

Thanks a lot for the clarification . So basically it's similar to your mix, but with cross-fades instead of the "hard cuts" ?

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]guild93[/QUOTENAME]

Does anyone have the Snow Producciones DVD version? It is *claimed* to be from the master-VHS

Luke

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Yes, I have it. It sucks and it's definitely NOT from the master, and comes from a lossy source (and / or was encoded with low bitrate)

Could somebody please share the DVD ? Or at least some screenshots from the DVD just to compare if it's an upgrade ?

Thanks

The video quality looks pretty much the same as the snow version. This looks like a cleaner version, but does not have any extra definition. The old VHS copy I have has better colour, but worse overall picture quality. I'd give an arm and a leg to see the pro-shot footage, even though it's not release standard it would be very interesting. New version on the left, snow version on the right. [URL=http://img684.imageshack.us/i/slane.png/][IMG]http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/1016/slane.png[/IMG][/URL]

Marknow, Thanks,
I think you are right!
Slane was a huge show, the biggest crowd of the tour except for Knebworth that was added later on..
Apart from this I don t know why sometimes bands they choose to made a DVD for a concert in a little venue instead to record a huge show.
Let s think for example to Queen plus PR"RETURN OF THE CHAMPIONS DVD"..It was shot in Sheffield..but why not pick up Hyde Park instead?..U2 did some dvd's from "little"shows instead to choose for example Mega-concert from the same tour. It s for acoustic reason?