02/12/93 - Christchurch, NZ @ Theatre Royal

Date: Friday, February 12th, 1993
City: Christchurch, New Zealand
Venue: Theatre Royal
SET LIST NOTES
Shoot 
Dirty Boots 
100% 
Theresa's Sound-World 
Kool Thing
Tom Violence 
Genetic 
Swimsuit Issue 
Drunken Butterfly 
Sugar Kane 
I Love Her All The Time 
--
JC 
Schizophrenia 
Expressway to Yr Skull


  • A tape of this show circulates but I believe somewhere along the way the second half became mistaken for the beginning of the show, as the recordings begin with "Sugar Kane" "I Love Her..." "JC" etc, with "Drunken Butterfly" as the final song. However, there is a clear encore break between "I Love Her" and "JC", and there is a discernable cut in the crowd noise between "Expressway" (the actual end of the show) and the opener "Shoot".

    QUOTES

    L: "Glad to be here."
    - Shoot
    T: "Ah, thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. Alright."
    L: "Yo there's a bunch of wires up at the front of the stage, just try not to pull em back cuz it'll turn everything off, okay?"
    T: "I'd like to dedicate this next song to the Dunedin hardcore scene. This is called 'Dirty Boots'."
    - Dirty Boots
    - 100%
    K: "[?] cuz you're pulling all the fucking wires and the whole fucking P.A.'s gonna fall apart. That would really be, you know, that'd be fucked. See all these wires up here? You're fuckin' pulling em off [?]"
    T: "I hate to change the subject, can I have an F# please? I gotta take a break. Ah, hold up. I broke a string, I never break a string so I'd rather switch [?]"
    L: "He's Mr. Unbreakable!"
    K: [over intro of 'Theresa's Sound World'] "Look you fucking asshole! This guy's a friend of ours, man! Who the fuck do you think he is? And he just...you know, this is not a sport, okay? Where's the fucking football field [?]"
    - Theresa's Sound-World
    - Kool Thing [w. Death Valley tease in intro]
    K: "Thanks."
    T: "Alright, shut up. You guys ready? I'd like to send this song out to Richard Hell, this is called 'Tom Violence'."
    - Tom Violence
    [tape of some rollicking piano playing]
    T: "I was just told that I had a booger hanging out of my nose for that whole last song. Do you know what boogers are? Do they, is that a New Zealand word? Yeah yeah!
    L: "Alright, this is called 'Genetic'."
    - Genetic
    T: "Thank you very much. Okay! This is our anti-macho fuck, fucking stupid asshole song."
    K: "Yeah this is called 'Swimsuit Issue'. As Kathleen from Bikini Kill would say, "suck my left one!"."
    - Swimsuit Issue
    T: "Thanks. Ah, this next song is an anti-macho fuckhead...Anti-disrespectful...This is called 'Drunken Butterfly'."
    - Drunken Butterfly
    [tape cut]
    - Sugar Kane
    [tapes or radio playing, possibly also Thurston smashing synth]
    - I Love Her All The Time [Kim sings one "I Love Her All The Time" at the end]
    T: "Thank you, goodnight."
    [encore break]
    T: "This is for JC."
    - JC
    T: "Thanks. Okay. Are you okay? Okay? You look like you're getting crushed. Hey can you, some of you, uh, guys be careful of these young women up front cuz they're getting kind of hurt. I know you [??] I'm sure they would..."
    K: "Guys, only girls are allowed to stage dive. Alright?"
    T: "Okay. And they expect utter respect when they come into the crowd. This song is called 'Schizophrenia'."
    - Schizophrenia
    T: "We'd like to dedicate this next song to Dead C and Peter Jefferies. This is called 'Expressway'."
    - Expressway to yr Skull

    OTHER PERFORMERS

  • Dead C

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