Touch & Go 25th Anniversary Shows

Big Black, of course.

The world's best record label, Touch & Go Records, held a 25th anniversary festival some five years ago, which featured some great, great bands, some of which hadn't played for ages before, and haven't played again ever since (Scratch Acid, Big Black). Here is an assortment of live recordings from that festival (the whole Big Black mini-set is thankfully included, for historical purposes at least) which used to be featured at this blog, but are not available anymore.

The wonderful Mr. Todd Trainer of Shellac.

Track listing:

Day One:

1. Shipping News - (Morays or) Demon (4:28)
2. Shipping News - Axons and Dendrites (5:47)
3. Supersystem - Born into the World (6:17)
4. Supersystem - The Pinnacle of Experience (2:54)
5. Girls Against Boys - Rockets Are Red (5:19)
6. Girls Against Boys - Super-Fire (3:28)
7. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Sons of Cain (4:00)
8. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Suspect Device (3:09)
9. !!! - Must Be The Moon (4:27)
10. !!! - All My Heroes Are Weirdos (3:49)

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Day Two:

1. The New Year - Chinese Handcuffs (3:59)
2. The New Year - Reconstruction (3:23)
3. Uzeda - Gold (3:01)
4. Uzeda - Steel Man (3:03)
5. Pegboy - Superstar (3:27)
6. Pegboy - Dangermare (3:01)
7. Tim & Andy - lr72 (8:09)
8. The Ex - Sister (5:48)
9. The Ex - Unknown (6:25)
10. Killdozer - New Pants and Shirt (4:22)
11. Killdozer - La Grange / Cyst (5:43)
12. Jon & Kat - You Must Have Walked Across My Mind Again (3:43)
13. Jon & Kat - Last Fair Deal Gone Down (4:44)
14. Didjits - Plate in My Head (2:50)
15. Didjits - Who's Ready to Get High (3:06)
16. Negative Approach - Pressure / Fair Warning (1:04)
17. Negative Approach - Dead Stop (2:38)
18. Sally Timms - Corporal Chalkie (4:28)
19. Sally Timms - God's Eternal Love (5:02)
20. Scratch Acid - Monsters (2:01)
21. Scratch Acid - Mess / El Espectro (6:46)
22. Big Black - Intro (0:52)
23. Big Black - Cables (2:19)
24. Big Black - Dead Billy (5:48)
25. Big Black - Pigeon Kill (3:27)
26. Big Black - Racer X (3:35)
27. Shellac - Canada (2:55)
28. Shellac - Billiard Player Song (12:43)

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Day Three:

1. Arcwelder - Truth (2:50)
2. Arcwelder - Cranberry Sauce (2:57)
3. Quasi - All the Same (3:52)
4. Quasi - Peace and Love (3:43)
5. Monorchid - Curse of the Potty Trained Children (2:50)
6. Monorchid - New Tricks (3:22)
7. Enon - Ashish (4:51)
8. Enon - Which Way to Go? (2:48)
9. Three Mile Pilot - 97-MT (3:52)
10. Three Mile Pilot - Aqua-Magnetic (7:48)
11. Tara Jane O'Neill - Howl (6:27)
12. Tara Jane O'Neill - Famous Yellow Belly (7:40)
13. Seam - Berlitz (3:12)
14. Seam - Sweet Pea (3:32)
15. Brick Layer Cake - Sitting Pretty (4:26)
16. Brick Layer Cake - Stars (7:01)
17. Black Heart Procession - Not Just Words (4:03)
18. Black Heart Procession - You Got Lucky (4:51)
19. Coco Rosie - K-Hole (4:32)
20. Coco Rosie - South 2nd (3:47)
21. Pinback - Syracuse (3:59)
22. Pinback - Non-Photo Blue (3:41)
23. Calexico - Sunken Waltz (2:29)
24. Calexico - Alone Again or (4:01)
25. Calexico - A Letter to Bowie Knife (3:32)

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