03/21/89 - Leicester, England @ Poly Arena

SET LIST NOTES
The Sprawl  
Cross the Breeze 
Teenage Riot 
Hey Joni 
Candle 
Kissability 
Eric's Trip 
World Looks Red 
The Wonder  
Hyperstation 
Silver Rocket 
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Expressway To Yr Skull
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Brother James

  • Lots of confusion about this one over the years but I believe this is the correct date/city/set combination. Please let me know if I'm wrong though! The previously listed "fake Leicester" set was from 04/01/89 Frankfurt.
  • A video of the main set circulates, and a commenter on youtube says they were there and the encore was "I Wanna Be Yr Dog" with Mudhoney. That was a common encore on this tour, but "Expressway" + "Brother James" seem to be from the same audience tape.

    QUOTES

    - The Sprawl
    - 'Cross the Breeze [no outro]
    T: "Cindy."
    - Teen Age Riot [no intro]
    K: [over delay drone at end of "Teenage Riot"] "Susanne, can you give me more light?"
    L: "Alright, stage diving during the tune ups! We love it. You ready? You ready? This song is called 'Hey Joni'."
    - Hey Joni
    - Candle
    - Kissability
    L: "This is called 'Eric's Trip'."
    - Eric's Trip
    L: "'The World Looks Red'."
    - The World Looks Red
    T: "I'm sorry I'm in such a good mood tonight. I'm usually not this ecstatic."
    K: "Thurston's having his period!"
    L: "Put on your happy face man!"
    T: "What? It's just the time of month, every time it's like...it sorta has to do with the moon and my body. And the cycle of blood right up above the abdomen."
    L: "Men have that too. It just [??]. Thurston has it more than most."
    T: "This song is about the curse. Alice Cooper said it best when he said only women...[laughs] but you know, all Americans are wankers. This song is called 'The Wonder', it's about walking around Leicester looking for Epic Soundtracks' birthplace."
    - The Wonder [segue into "Hyperstation"]
    - Hyperstation
    [video cuts to intro of "silver rocket"]
    - Silver Rocket
    T: "Alright thanks. Thanks a lot!"
    [encore break]
    ["Providence" tape plays through encore break]
    L: "Come on, quit throwing the fucking, um [?] Thank you [?]"
    T: "No no no yeah okay. You know those are politician's gestures. Does anybody here know who Brian Wilson is? He's from um...He's from the same city in California that Redd Kross is. They went to the same high school. Hawthorne. We wrote a song about building a sandbox in the living room."
    L: "I don't mean to interrupt your rap, man. [laughs]"
    T: "When I grow up...[laughs]"
    K: "you know I have to say uh..."
    L: "The Mudhoney dudes are right over there and they're harassing me."
    K: "This is the best audience in all of fucking England!"
    L: "And we thank you for attending the farewell tour!"
    T: "When I grow up I wanna be just like Mudhoney."
    L: "When you grow down. Tall boy."
    T: "Aww, jam it!"
    - Expressway [10'30"]
    L: "Thanks a lot."
    [encore break]
    T: "Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo what's up? We can either uh...I don't know what the problem is, we have this Grateful Dead CD that we're playing. We thought for sure you guys wanted...[laughs] Aww I thought it was a doobie! I thought this was a reefer! Throw some doobies on stage!"
    L: "Please throw some reefers!"
    T: "Roll another number and throw it on stage."
    L: "Roll another number, man."
    T: "I don't like to smoke. [?] We could do 'Straight Edge'. We're gonna play an art rock classic. After we play, I have to go um, run back to the hotel and finish my sculptures."
    [one guitarist teases "Kill Yr Idols" briefly]
    T: "Can I have a G please? Quiet! I'm very...I'm way out...wait, I'm way out of tune, let's do this systematically. G. K. Okay. Alright. You signed a contract? With Step Forward Records? Oh."
    L: "We'd like to invite everyone on stage for this song."
    T: "Alright this song will be counted by the lead guitar player and then the drummer will come in..."
    L: "1 2 3 4!"
    - Brother James
    T: "Paul Smith, ladies and gentlemen, Paul Sm-"

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