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On May 23rd 1983, The Residents opened the European leg of their first tour, The Mole Show, with a performance at Rotation, a nightclub in Hannover, Germany.[1]
This show was the group's first performance outside America, having previously taken the show across California in the first leg of the tour. In his tour diary, a member of The Residents described the Hannover performance as a "good... edgy opener".[2]
A stereo tape recording of this show was made by an audience member, and was occasionally traded among fans as a bootleg cassette, and later, on CD-R. A "remastered" FLAC rip of the CD-R, posted to the private BitTorrent tracker Dimeadozen in 2011, has circulated over the internet in recent years.
Set list[]
- Voices of the Air
- The Secret Seed
- The Ultimate Disaster
- God of Darkness
- Migration
- Smack Your Lips (Clap Your Teeth)
- Another Land
- The New Machine
- Song of the Wild
- Final Confrontation
- Satisfaction
- Happy Home
Bootleg recording[]
The Hannover performance of The Mole Show was recorded to cassette by an unidentified audience member on a Sony Walkman.[3] The recording subsequently received limited circulation among fans for a number of years as a trade item; it does not appear to have been bootlegged for profit at any point.
The original cassette version of the bootleg opened with a clip of the introduction to the group's 1977 "radio special" (a creative flourish added by some early Residents bootleggers), and the recording appears to have been edited to fit a C-60 cassette, with numerous tracks cut short (including "The Ultimate Disaster", "Smack Your Lips (Clap Your Teeth)", "The New Machine", "Song of the Wild" and "Happy Home"). In later years, a CD-R copy of the recording (consisting of the full show in a single, lengthy track) was traded among fans.
In 2011, a CD-R copy was ripped and "mastered" by a user of the private BitTorrent tracker Dimeadozen (aka DIME), and posted there under the title 1983-05-23 Rotation, Hannover, Germany. This version of the recording splits the show's songs into separate tracks and removes the introductory excerpt from the 1977 radio special; the poster also applied volume balancing to the two halves of the show, fixed issues with clipping and removed over one hundred clicks and digital artifacts from the CD-R.
Track listing[]
2011 "mastered" version[]
- Voices of the Air (4:30)
- The Secret Seed (2:51)
- Narration 1 (1:03)
- The Ultimate Disaster (Cut) (5:42)
- Won't You Keep Us Working?
- First Warning
- Back To Normality?
- The Sky Falls! (Cut)
- Narration 2 (0:41)
- God of Darkness (3:11)
- Narration 3 (0:31)
- Migration (9:18)
- March To The Sea
- The Observer
- Hole-Workers' New Hymn
- Smack Your Lips (Clap Your Teeth) (Cut) (2:14)
- Narration 4 (Cut) (0:29)
- Another Land (4:22)
- Rumors
- Arrival
- Deployment/Saturation
- Narration 5 (0:33)
- The New Machine (Cut) (7:14)
- Idea
- Construction
- Ugly Rumors
- Failure/Reconstruction
- Success (Cut)
- Narration 6 (Cut) (0:16)
- Song of the Wild (Cut) (3:16)
- Final Confrontation (8:11)
- Driving The Moles Away
- Don't Tread On Me
- The Short War
- Satisfaction (2:26)
- Happy Home (Cut) (2:47)
See also[]
- The Mole Show (tour)
External links and references[]
- ↑ "I was there too, it was a strange venue, more like a disco club." Frank Herrebout, comment posted in The Residents unofficial Facebook group, June 7th 2021
- ↑ Uncle Willie, Uncle Willie's Highly Opinionated Guide to The Residents, 1993
- ↑ "Whow, this was my First time I saw them. Great Show ! I have got the Tape since then. The Guy with his Walkmen was Standing Close to me, so I can name the people who were cross talking- including myself" Torsten Wascher, comment posted in The Residents unofficial Facebook group, June 7th 2021
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