With recorded music sales still ebbing away, the only part of the industry that can truly make money from fans, conventional wisdom goes, is the live experience. But now EMI Music is trying to marry the two.

It’s setting up Abbey Road Live, a new “live music recording and instant production service” that will let fans buy recordings of gigs they just attended, within minutes of the encore’s end.

Concert-goers will be offered recordings on CD, DVD, USB sticks/bracelets or via “secure digital delivery” to PCs and mobiles, as either streams or downloads. HD videos may also be available.

Abbey Road Live is actually an extension of Live Here Now, a service launched by EMI label imprint Mute in 2004 for this purpose. It has sold the quick live recordings at concerts for The Pixies, Franz Ferdinand, Depeche Mode and others.

But EMI is now growing the service by plugging it in to its own Abbey Road Studios, where Abbey Road Live will be based.

The service will deploy an on-site crew to engineer multi-track audio and vid