I think that dmg's comments about MK' voice are correct. Analysing the whole thing with a clear mind after the concert, he saw that MK, unfortunately, was on his lowest point as a singer and guitar player.
I remember going to see the Golden Heart concert in Leeds 1996. It was the most wonderful concert and I still remember it to this day! I was walking on air for weeks afterwards! I would have loved to hear a recording of that concert, but we didn't have official recordings at that time. Maybe there was a bootleg, but I never found one.
These days we do have official recordings of the concerts we attend, but the downside of recordings is that we can hear all of the glitches, etc which we didn't notice at the live concert. If there were mistakes and glitches at the GH concert I attended in 1996, I was unaware of them, but it is still in my head as the most wonderful concert.
I wouldn't want to be without the recordings I have of the concerts I have attended and I still listen to them, but nothing can beat being there and enjoying the whole atmosphere of a live concert without having post mortems later! The recording of the Leeds concert in 2019, I'm happy to say, still gives me great pleasure as do so many others! 
There are some other great quality recordings of that tour Val, do you have them?
Yes, I do have some good recordings - Copenhagen, Hamburg, Vaison and some RAH, but I haven't discovered any from Leeds 1996 - yet! Maybe I should leave that one locked in my head!
I was at that Leeds gig too! One of the most enjoyable MK/DS gigs that I have been fortunate enough to see (all have been good in different ways).
Sometimes I think it’s good not to hear a recording of a show you attended as it taints your memory of the experience somehow, as the recording never sounds the same as it did live. I love to listen to other shows from a tour rather than the ones I actually saw.
Hi Yorkshire Pudding and welcome to AMIT. I was standing behind the sound desk at that concert. Ed Bicknell was standing next to me and he kindly signed my tour book. It was a very special evening which I will never forget.
Were you also at the 2019 Leeds concert?
Hello! And thank you for the kind welcome.
We probably weren't too far away from each other - I was in front of the sound desk, and I think probably leaning on the barriers that surround it if memory serves correctly (this was a general admission standing gig for those on the floor).
It was a great gig, a small venue so everyone got a good view and we got some real early tour rarities in No Can Do (not one of my favourites though I have to say), Gravy Train and Vic and Ray. I remember that concert absolutely sprang to life with that opening riff of Calling Elvis and from then on it was especially magical.
This was before the internet got going so you never quite knew what was coming next in the set (for those of us that couldn't help themselves by looking at set lists and downloading recordings on the subsequent tours before actually going to a show). I heard Long Highway for the first time and absolutely loved it - I remember Mark saying something like "Not on any record, I don't know why I didn't record it, must have forgotten about it" in his intro.
Incidentally, the 1993 MK/Hillbillies gig at the same Leeds venue is my most favourite MK/DS/NHB show that I attended. Just MK and Brendan for the first half of the show (DS stuff), then joined by Steve Phillips for a NHB second half. Without a band you could hear every note that MK was playing and appreciate how amazing his guitar playing is/was....I mean how on earth do you do Calling Elvis with just two guitars, but they pulled it all off brilliantly. It was a wonderful atmosphere with the crowd singing along to everything and just 100% "into it" all.
I moved from the UK to New Zealand (now living in Australia) in 2007, so the last MK show I saw was at Wembley with Emmylou Harris in 2006
