Bert Jansch - Royal Festival Hall 30/6/71 (audio restoration)

Recorded in mono from the front row by Christopher Gardiner - a young fan with a Sony cassette recorder - Chris very kindly gave me a copy of the recording in the early 2000s, which he had digitally transferred via the headphone output. I had shared my own non-pro EQ-ing of this transfer on RUclips four years ago. Pro mastering engineer Cormac O'Kane has restored the untreated audio - again, from that early 2000s non-pro transfer - and given it a slight stereo picture. It seems unlikely that an official commercial release will happen for this historic performance, but were that to change, a pro digitisation of Chris' recording could be made and the restoration/mastering undertaken anew.
This Festival Hall concert, to promote the 'Rosemary Lane' LP, was Bert's only solo appearance of the full-time Pentangle era (between early 1968 and the end of 1972). Several of the songs performed would never be performed again, although two weeks later Bert would record five of the numbers he played at the Festival Hall for a BBC radio 'Sounds of the 70s' session (Nobody's Bar, Twa Corbies, Bird Song, Omie Wise, Tell Me...). Happily, albeit months after the 'Bert Jansch at the BBC' 8CD set was released, a copy of that recording has turned up.
The previous upload - which features images from the show taken by Shepherd Sherbell for the sleeve montage of the Pentangle's late 1971 LP 'Reflection' plus a concert ad from Melody Maker and images and text from a 25/6/71 preview of the show from London magazine Time Out - can be found here: • Bert Jansch - Royal Fe...
Huge thanks to Christopher for recording the show!
1. A Dream, A Dream
2. Wayward Child
3. Silly Woman
4. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
5. Bird Song
6. Nobody's Bar
7. Oh, My Babe
8. Yarrow
9. Twa Corbies
10. Reynardine
11. Tell Me What is True Love
12. When I Get Home
13. The Wheel
14. Omie Wise