Ash Neuro was nice enough to donate his previously unsurfaced video (AMT #2) for the 2002-10-25 St. John’s Church gig to coincide with this website’s launch. Thank you again, mate!

The team here at Live Coil Archive are always on the lookout for more material. Please see below for a condensed list of unsurfaced and confirmed/rumored audio or video recordings. See individual pages to signify one particular recording from another (like if one show has two different video recordings, for example). If you have a copy of any of them, or any others we do not even know about, please do get in touch: info@live-coil-archive.com

AUD – audience recording.
SBD – soundboard/desk recording.
AMT – amateur video, taken by an audience member, usually poorer quality than PRO videos (these recordings may be used on the EDIT sections, but have surfaced separately and stand on their own).
PRO – professionally shot video, but not included on Colour Sound Oblivion, has surfaced separately.
EDIT – professional edit using one or multiple camera angles, amateur or professional

We would appreciate any pictures before, during, or after Coil’s live shows!

Coil tape trading largely occurred in the early 2000s, an era when MP3s and CD-r trading were relatively new. At the time, no one really cared about keeping track of recording lineage, and as such, most recordings are of unknown lineage today. All we know is that most recordings are currently only available in MP3, which is a lossy recording format. Because CD-r trading was so prevalent, in some cases, a recording’s lineage might look something like M0 Tape > MP3 > CDr > FLAC > MP3 > CDr > MP3. We don’t know! CD burning software could also add burn errors, pops, clicks, silence between tracks, etc. We are audiophiles, and as such, would like to listen and preserve the best quality versions of every recording possible. Ideally, straight digital rips from master tapes are always the best. If you have any source upgrades to any pre-existing recording, even if it’s just a FLAC upgrade to an MP3 source, please let us know!

The same logic applies to video. Many bootleg videos were shared in extremely low quality back in the day, such as 2002-04-12 Volksbuhne’s AMT #1b, to save on storage space, which was very limited in computers at the time. If you have any video upgrades, please let us know!

‘COIL Transmitter Stones’ to Giveaway

In LCA we don’t really agree on the principle of paying for COIL bootlegs, though we are well aware it may take fans considerable time and effort to locate and possibly digitise their COIL audio/visual rarities for us fans to experience.

So, if you have any of the following previously-uncirculated COIL items, we will exchange a digital copy of what you have with the small gesture of a stone talisman gift (aka “COIL Transmitter Stone”) straight from COIL’s former North Tower home/recording studio grounds in Weston-super-Mare. These four stones were specifically sourced with permission by Phil Barrington during his recent “Higher Beings Command” fan-project video shoot there.