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Jump to 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 or 2007.
Jul 13 1992 WMBR, Cambridge, USA
Radio Recording
22 minutes
Officially released on Drag City Hour CD. CD also includes 3 rare tracks.
Jump to 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 or 2007.
May 01 1993 1311 Highland House, Louisville, USA
Audience Recording, A-. Some chat. Recording level jumps up during track 2 but remains stable after that.
49 minutes
Oct 24 1993 Baggot Inn, Dublin, Ireland
Radio Recording, (background noise from another radio program). Incomplete.
64 minutes
Nov 06 1993 Rough Trade Shop, London, UK
Audience Recording, A-
22 minutes
Nov 09 1993 La Casa, Louvain-la-Neuve
Soundboard Recording. I'm sure this is a FM broadcast. It is quite hissy, and during the last track some faint Belgian DJ chat is heard from a neighbouring station.
77 minutes. Incomplete - starts midway through "The Spider's Dude Is Often There". No complete version in circulation.
Nov 13 1993 Knust, Hamburg, Germany
Soundboard Recording. Right channel lost briefly in track one.
73 minutes
Nov 27 1993 John Peel Session, BBC Radio 1, UK
Radio Recording
14 minutes
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Jan 08 1994 Threadwaxing Space, New York, USA
Audience Recording, B
47 minutes
Jun 07 1994 Narrowboat, Nottingham, UK
Audience Recording, B/B-. Muffled sound. Sounds like a poor tape -> CDR transfer, with very rough between-song transitions.
51 minutes
Jun 09 1994 Borderline, London, UK
Audience Recording, B
42 minutes
Jul 29 1994 John Peel Session, BBC Radio 1, UK
Radio Recording
14 minutes
Aug 09 1994 Duke Coffee House, Durham, USA
Soundboard Recording, A
73 minutes
Incomplete - last song missing. Complete versions do exist.
Aug 28 1994 Marx, Hamburg, Germany
Audience Recording, A+
96 minutes
Aug 31 1994 VPRO Radio, Netherlands
Radio Recording, a little hissy
17 minutes
Sep 02 1994 Patronaat, Haarlem, Netherlands
Audience Recording, A, some crackling
74 minutes
Sep 03 1994 Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Audience Recording, A
70 minutes
Sep 18 1994 Kulturstation, Munich, Germany
Radio Recording, with interview
90 minutes
Jump to 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 or 2007.
Apr 22 1995 Bottom Of The Hill, San Francisco, USA
Audience Recording, B-. Chatty audience. A couple of tape transfer issues - a gap before track 2 and a burst of unrelated music at the start of track 11! Should be able to edit these out.
57 minutes
Jun 04 1995 Club Toast, Burlington, USA
Audience Recording, A-. Fairly hissy. Applause & gaps between songs edited out, leaving silences.
58 minutes. Missing the final track, "Old Jerusalem". I have a mp3 of this; no complete lossless version in circulation.
Jun 12 1995 Fleece & Firkin, Bristol, UK
Audience Recording, A
68 minutes
Jun 20 1995 The Monarch, London, UK
Audience Recording, A-. Loud audience.
63 minutes
Oct 23 1995 Club Toast, Burlington, USA
Audience Recording, A-
80 minutes
Oct 26 1995 Maxwells, Hoboken, USA
Soundboard Recording (so I'm told). B+. Very bass-heavy recording, and a couple of tape transfer artefacts (a drop-out and some variable speed issues on track 3).
43 minutes
Incomplete - cuts out midway in track 10. No complete version in circulation.
Oct 31 1995 Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, USA
Audience Recording, B+
32 minutes
Will sings with Smog on one track, Bathysphere
Nov 02 1995 Rockafellas, Columbia, USA
Audience Recording, A, possibly soundboard
67 minutes
Nov 11 1995 Exit In, Nashville, USA
Audience Recording, B+
79 minutes
Available on DVD. I'm confident this audio recording is simply a rip of the audio track of that DVD (there is a timing difference but I assume that is explained by the transfer (and duplication?) of analog sources; neither version is audibly at the wrong speed.
Jump to 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 or 2007.
Apr 14 1996 13th Note, Glasgow, Scotland
Audience Recording, B-.
I really can't recommend this show as it is very poor quality. The sound is very uneven and often muffled. I believe this was a tape-to-CDR transfer so maybe the tape was damaged prior to transfer. Shame, nice set otherwise.
41 minutes
Apr 18 1996 Cadiz University, Spain
Audience Recording, B+. Muffled in parts, and some mic contact.
32 minutes
Apr 28 1996 Dingwall's, London, UK
Audience Recording, A-
65 minutes
May 20 1996 9:30 Club, Washington, USA
Audience Recording, A
62 minutes
May 26 1996 Middle East, Boston, USA
Audience Recording, B. Some variable speed issues, as if it had been recorded to, or transferred from, a dodgy tape deck. Still listenable.
49 minutes
Nov 02 1996 East End, Madison, USA
Audience Recording, B+
89 minutes
Nov 03 1996 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis, USA
Audience Recording, A
71 minutes
Nov 05 1996 Bluebird Theater, Denver, USA
Audience Recording, A
76 minutes
Nov 12 1996 Melarkeys, Sacramento, USA
Audience Recording, B-. Sounds pretty distant & trebly.
52 minutes
Nov 13 1996 Bimbo's, San Francisco, USA
Audience Recording, B
88 minutes
Nov 16 1996 Hollywood Alley, Phoenix , USA
Audience Recording, B+. Chatty. Bursts of static during tracks 2 & 5, and a brief right-channel drop-out in track 9.
57 minutes
Nov 29 1996 Cat's Cradle, Carborro, USA
Audience recording, B-. Very chatty. Distortion at higher volumes (introduced during recording or transfer from tape, I don't know).
69 minutes
Dec 06 1996 Exit In, Nashville, USA
Audience Recording, A-
68 minutes
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Jan ?? 1997 The Fat Lady's Arms, Dunedin, New Zealand
Soundboard Recording
73 minutes
Apr ?? 1997 WNUR Radio, Evanston, USA
Radio Recording
16 minutes, incomplete version
Audience recording, A
54 minutes
Apr 12 1997 Euclid Tavern, Cleveland, USA
Audience recording, A-
55 minutes
Available on DVD. I'm confident this audio recording is simply a rip of the audio track of that DVD.
May ?? 1997 unknown venue, Charleston, USA
Audience recording, A-. One digital error on track 4.
24 minutes
Very incomplete. No complete version in circulation.
May 29 1997 Bay Street Bar, Savannah, USA
Audience recording, B+. Quite prominent tape hiss.
48 minutes
May 30 1997 Hunter Gatherer, Columbia, USA
Audience recording, A-
78 minutes
Sep 04 1997 Tramps, New York, USA
Audience recording, A-
21 minutes
Will's set from the Drag City Revue.
Jump to 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 or 2007.
Mar 25 1998 "Suoni & Ultrasuoni", Radio Due, Rome, Italy
Radio Recording
14 minutes
Jun 13 1998 VPRO Radio Session, Holland
Radio Recording. Several recording faults.
44 minutes
Jun 14 1998 Studio Amstel, Amsterdam, Holland
Radio Recording
17 minutes
Oct 02 1998 KXLU-FM, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA
Radio Recording, a little hissy
63 minutes
Oct 04 1998 Off The Record, San Diego, USA
Audience recording, A
39 minutes
Available on DVD. I'm confident this audio recording is simply a rip of the audio track of that DVD.
Oct 08 1998 KUSF, San Francisco, USA
Radio Recording
40 minutes
Oct 10 1998 KSLC, McMinnville, USA
Radio Recording
29 minutes
Oct 10 1998 KPSU, Portland, USA
Radio Recording. Persistent background distortion, a bubbling water kinda sound, but quiet and not too distracting.
75 minutes
Nov 04 1998 BraveNewWorld.Net, USA
Radio Recording
38 minutes
Mastered as one track.
Oct 30 1998 WUSF, Tallahassee, USA
Radio Recording
72 minutes
CD also contains rare material from other sources - see track-listing for details
Dec 12 1998 Black Cat, Washington, USA
Audience Recording, A
60 minutes
I'm pretty sure this recording is incomplete. Complete versions do exist, though I'm not sure if they are as good quality as this recording.
Dec 18 1998 Greater London Radio Session
Radio Recording
16 minutes
Jump to 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 or 2007.
Radio Recording
Included on the "Various radio sessions" CD
14 minutes
Jan 23 1999 Astoria, London, UK
Audience Recording, B+
39 minutes
Jan 24 1999 Café De La Danse, Paris, France
Audience Recording, A
85 minutes
Radio Recording
Included on the "Various radio sessions" CD
5 minutes
Feb 4 1999 Iceland TV Appearance
Radio Recording
Included on the "Various radio sessions" CD
3 minutes
Jun 22 1999 New Brookland Tavern, Columbia, USA
Audience Recording, B+
89 minutes
Jun 24 1999 Echo Lounge, Atlanta, USA
Soundboard Recording. Some background hiss. Audible track transitions. Identified as mp3-sourced by Tau Analyzer.
47 minutes
Incomplete. Complete audience recording does exist. No known complete soundboard recording in circulation.
Jun 27 1999 Rudyard's, Houston, USA
Audience Recording, A-
63 minutes
Also available on DVD-R.
Jul 06 1999 The Starry Plough, Berkeley, USA
Audience Recording, B+
76 minutes
Jul 09 1999 Berbatis Pan, Portland, USA
Audience Recording, A
93 minutes
Jul 17 1999 Headliners, Louisville, USA
Soundboard Recording (sounds like). Clumsy track separations (as if it was once a TAO disc, badly converted to DAO). A minor flaw in an otherwise great sounding set.
85 minutes. Incomplete, missing the final track, "A Minor Place". No complete version in circulation.
Aug 31 1999 John Peel's 60th birthday
Radio Recording
Included on the "Various radio sessions" CD
14 minutes
Oct 08 1999 Yellow Springs, Antioch College, USA
Audience Recording, A
44 minutes
This show is incomplete, though I don't know of any complete version in circulation
Dec 11 1999 VPRO Amstel Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Radio Recording
35 minutes
Dec 11 1999 VPRO Radio 5, Hilversum, Netherlands
Radio Recording
With The Anomoanon
Included on the "Various radio sessions" CD
3 minutes
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Jan 22 2000 Rootscafe, Baltimore, USA
Soundboard Recording (sounds like), A
Note this is a TAO recording. DAO versions do exist.
51 minutes
Jan 31 2000 NRK P3, "Roxrevyen"
Radio Recording
Included on the "Various radio sessions" CD
11 minutes
Feb 10 2000 Terrace Club, Princeton, USA
Audience Recording, B. A lot of audience chatter. Also, the mic seems to have been knocked on several occasions
74 minutes
Audience Recording, A
75 minutes
A set of largely improvised music, with Catherine Jauniaux and Alan Licht
Oct 06 2000 The End, Nashville, USA
Audience Recording, A
71 minutes
Dec 01 2000 Somerville Theater, Somerville, USA
Audience Recording, A-
38 minutes
Dec 05 2000 Bowery Ballroom, New York, USA
Audience Recording, A-
28 minutes. Incomplete. No complete version in circulation.
Dec 06 2000 Bowery Ballroom, New York, USA
Audience Recording, A+. (I initially thought it sounded like pro mics feeding to desk, but I've been told it's $350 mics to DAT. Some fluctuations in recording levels in track 1.)
40 minutes
Dec 08 2000 Maxwell’s, Hoboken, USA
Audience Recording, A
50 minutes
Jump to 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 or 2007.
Jan 24 2001 Gilbert Musique, Paris, France
Audience Recording, A
50 minutes
Radio Recording
Included on the "Various radio sessions" CD
11 minutes
Apr ?? 2001 "Patchanka", Radio Popolare, Italy
Radio Recording
7 minutes
Apr 05 2001 Club Orto, Ljubljana
Soundboard Recording
104 minutes
Apr 06 2001 KSET, Zagreb, Croatia
Soundboard Recording. Some faults (stuttering sound) on two tracks.
127 minutes
Apr 08 2001 Club 2, Munich, Germany
Soundboard Recording
128 minutes
Jun 26 2001 123 Pleasant St., Morgantown, USA
Soundboard Recording
Mastered as one track
68 minutes
Jun 29 2001 WFPK Louisville, "Live Lunch"
Radio Recording. Quite hissy.
Indexed as two tracks, split after "Mrs William"
57 minutes
Jun 30 2001 Bernheim Forest, Kentucky, USA
Soundboard Recording
83 minutes
Jul 03 2001 King's, Raleigh, USA
Audience Recording, A
115 minutes
Jul 06 2001 Creative Alliance, Baltimore, USA
Audience Recording, A
98 minutes
Aug 11 2001 Radio 1190, Denver
Radio Recording
14 minutes
Sep 08 2001 Beloit Folk & Blues Festival, Beloit, USA
Audience Recording, A-
81 minutes
Sep 26 2001 Botaniques, Brussels, Belgium
Audience Recording, A
108 minutes
Sep 27 2001 Botaniques, Brussels, Belgium
Audience Recording, A
94 minutes
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Mar 30 2002 Socket, Olympia, USA
Audience Recording, A
66 minutes
Late show
Apr 16 2002 Troubadour, Los Angeles, USA
Audience Recording, A
67 minutes
Apr 28 2002 All Tomorrow’s Parties, Camber Sands, UK
Audience Recording, A
54 minutes
Radio Recording
Included on the "Various radio sessions" CD
19 minutes
Nov 24 2002 Further Beyond Nashville Festival, Barbican Hall, London, UK
Audience Recording, B+
112 minutes
Nov 26 2002 Radio Eksen, Istanbul, Turkey
Radio Recording, A-. Slightly indistinct.
27 minutes
Nov 27 2002 Babylon, Istanbul, Turkey
Soundboard Recording
This show sounds incomplete, though I don't know of any complete version in circulation
97 minutes
Nov 28 2002 "Ahtapotun Bahçesi", Açik Radyo, Istanbul, Turkey
Radio Recording. A few very brief recording glitches.
48 minutes
Mastered as one track.
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Feb 1 2003 Iron Horse Music Hall, Northhampton, USA
Audience Recording, A
106 minutes
Feb 2 2003 Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel, Providence, USA
Audience Recording, A
115 minutes
Mar 28 2003 Motel Mozaique Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Audience Recording, A-. Some intermittent, distracting near-mic noises.
72 minutes
I also have a Quicktime movie of this concert, complete except for two very brief cuts, one between "The Brute Choir" & "Ease Down The Road", & one during "Hard Life". Shot from the front row, image and audio quality are both excellent. The camera-man zooms in & out pretty much constantly, which can be annoying, and the audio track suffers from some distractingly loud near-mic noises. The audio recording I have is from a completely different source & position.
Apr 04 2003 Metro, Chicago, USA
Audience Recording, B+
45 minutes
Jun 29 2003 Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark
Audience Recording, A
99 minutes
Jul 01 2003 Folkets Park, Malmo, Sweden
Audience Recording, A
55 minutes
Jul 03 2003 Münchenbryggeriet, Stockholm, Sweden
Audience Recording, A-. Some mic pops and crackles.
61 minutes
Aug 11 2003 Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, USA
Audience Recording, B-. A lot of ambient noises (chat, coke-drinking, anti-Bonnie heckling!), and a pretty distant recording overall.
50 minutes (40 mins of Bonnie, plus 2 tracks from Bjork's headlining set). Incomplete - missing at least 1 track at the start of the set. No complete version in circulation.
Oct 16 2003 Shepherds Bush Empire, London, UK
Audience Recording, A
107 minutes
Oct 17 2003 Cafe Bla Bla, Porto, Portugal
Audience Recording, B+. Very low levels, and quite a lot of distortion.
118 minutes
Jump to 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 or 2007.
Audience Recording, A
104 minutes
TAO discs
Mar 17 2004 Taku-Taku, Kyoto, Japan
Audience Recording, A
98 minutes
TAO discs
Apr 02 2004 Institute of Art, Detroit, USA
Audience Recording, A-. Some rustling near the mic.
41 minutes
Early show
Apr 02 2004 Institute of Art, Detroit, USA
Audience Recording, A-. Some rustling near the mic.
53 minutes
Late show
May 26 2004 The Parish, Austin, USA
Soundboard Recording. Some crackling during Madeleine-Mary & Southside Of The World
104 minutes
May 27 2004 The Parish, Austin, USA
Soundboard Recording
98 minutes
May 30 2004 Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, Houston, USA
Audience Recording, A-. Some distortion, some chat, but generally good.
102 minutes
Jun 05 2004 Martin's Lounge, Jackson, USA
Soundboard Recording. A few pops and crackles.
72 minutes
Incomplete - last few minutes cut. No complete version in circulation.
Jun 13 2004 Beta Bar, Tallahassee, USA
Audience Recording, A-
93 minutes
Sep 12 2004 Indigo Bar, Wellington, New Zealand
Audience Recording, B+. Some muffling at high volume, a little hissy, otherwise very good.
91 minutes
Sep 15 2004 The Community and Cultural Centre, Byron Bay, Australia
Audience Recording, A
114 minutes
Sep 17 2004 The Zoo, Brisbane, Australia
Audience Recording, A-. Some static, some chat.
100 minutes
Sep 18 2004 Annandale Hotel, Sydney, Australia
Audience Recording, A
80 minutes
Incomplete - last song fades out. No complete version in circulation.
Oct 10 2004 The Moonshine Festival, Festival of the Arts Grounds, Laguna Beach, USA
Audience Recording, A
43 minutes
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Jan 23 2005 Amoeba Music, San Francisco, USA
Audience Recording, A
45 minutes
Apr 24 2005 WTJU 91.1 FM, Charlottesville, USA
Pre-FM Studio Master
14 minutes
Apr 28 2005 Lava House West, Louisville, USA
Audience Recording, A
86 minutes
Jun 04 2005 St George The Martyr Church, Toronto, Canada
Audience Recording, A
116 minutes
A Current 93 show during which Will Oldham performs Idumea with Andria Tibette, and sings backing vox (with many others) on The Blue Gates Of Death.
Jun 30 2005 Cité De La Musique, Paris, France *
Audience Recording, A
51 minutes
Jul 01 2005 Mains D'Oeuvres, Paris, France *
Audience Recording, A
80 minutes
Two tracks from this set available on DVD-R.
Jul 08 2005 Doornroosje, Nijmegen, NL
Audience Recording, A-. A bit chatty.
98 minutes
Jul 09 2005 Cactus Festival, Bruges, Belgium
Audience Recording, A
88 minutes
Aug 20 2005 Green Man Festival, Hay On Wye, Wales *
Audience Recording, A-. Pretty heavy on the drums (as it sounded on the night). A drop-out of less than a second in track 2.
102 minutes. Missing ~5 seconds of Idumea, and ~1 second of One With The Birds
Aug 22 2005 The Forum, London, UK *
Audience Recording, A
112 minutes
I also have a recording from an alternate source, an audience recording, from right up-front; incomplete, as master, missing Bed Is For Sleeping to Raining In Darling. And I have a version which is a matrix of that source and my complete recording.
Sep 01 2005, BBC Radio 1 session, UK *
FM Radio broadcast
20 minutes.
Jump to 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 or 2007.
Feb 18 2006 @Newtown RSL, Sydney, Australia
Audience Recording, A
105 minutes
Feb 19 2006 @Newtown RSL, Sydney, Australia
Audience Recording, A
121 minutes
Apr 11 2006 ABC, Glasgow, UK *
Audience Recording, A-. Some audience noises; the between-song applause is a bit loud; otherwise excellent.
90 minutes
Apr 12 2006 Queens Hall, Edinburgh, UK *
Audience Recording, A-. Crisp packet rustling during the first track; some of the between-song applause is a bit loud; otherwise excellent.
93 minutes
Apr 12 2006 Queens Hall, Edinburgh, UK *
Radio Recording. Recorded from the digital satellite broadcast.
44 minutes. Complete set not broadcast.
Apr 13 2006 The Sage, Gateshead, UK *
Audience Recording, A
88 minutes
Apr 21 2006 Craignish Hall, Ardfen, UK *
Audience Recording, A
94 minutes
Apr 22 2006 Glenuig Hall, Glenuig, UK *
Audience Recording, A-. Fairly noisy audience, so you'll hear background noise such as bottles falling over, cans being opened, plus some incredibly unrestrained howling during "Wolf Among Wolves"!
104 minutes
May 02 2006 The Mercy Lounge, Nashville, USA
Audience Recording, B+
77 minutes
May 03 2006 Bottle Tree, Birmingham, USA
Audience Recording, A-
78 minutes
Aug 05 2006 (7 p.m. set), Joe's Pub, New York, USA
Audience Recording, B+. Sounds quite distant.
41 minutes
Headlining set from Hazel Dickens also available.
Aug 06 2006 (4 p.m. set), Joe's Pub, New York, USA
Audience Recording, B+. Sounds quite distant.
42 minutes
Headlining set from Hazel Dickens also available.
Aug 06 2006 (6.30 p.m. set), Joe's Pub, New York, USA
Audience Recording, B+. Sounds quite distant.
41 minutes
Headlining set from Hazel Dickens also available.
Aug 12 2006 KCMP Studios, St. Paul, USA
FM Radio broadcast
28 minutes
Oct 30 2006 Mollusk Surf Shop, San Francisco, USA
Audience Recording, A
51 minutes
Oct 30 2006 Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, USA
Audience Recording, A
105 minutes
Joined by Dawn McCarthy for the songs from "The Letting Go"
Oct 31 2006 Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, USA
Audience Recording, A
125 minutes
Joined by Dawn McCarthy for the songs from "The Letting Go"
Nov 06 2006 Tractor Tavern, Seattle, USA
Audience Recording, A-. Indexing of tracks isn't 100% accurate, a few intros are appended to the previous tracks. A few abrupt cuts between songs but no music is missing.
126 minutes
Joined by Dawn McCarthy for the songs from "The Letting Go"
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Jan 23 2007 Rock City, Nottingham, UK *
Audience Recording, A
113 minutes
Jan 24 2007 Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, UK *
Audience Recording, A
97 minutes
Jan 25 2007 Colston Hall, Bristol, UK *
Audience Recording, A
103 minutes
Jan 26 2007 Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, UK *
Audience Recording, A
97 minutes
Jan 27 2007 Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, UK *
Audience Recording, A
105 minutes
11 Feb 2007 Shepherds Bush Empire, London, UK *
Audience Recording, A+
117 minutes
12 Feb 2007 Corn Exchange, Brighton, UK *
Audience Recording, A+
137 minutes
13 Feb 2007 The Junction, Cambridge, UK *
Audience Recording, A. Some intermittent ambient clicks & clunks, and chat, but nothing too distracting.
141 minutes
Apr 21 2007 Donau Festival, Krems, Austria
Audience Recording, A
69 minutes
Joined by Matt Sweeney, Andrew WK, & Dawn McCarthy, in addition to Alex Neilson
Apr 29 2007 Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Venice, Italy
Audience Recording, B+. Quite boomy, and drums too loud in the mix.
118 minutes
79 minutes
Home-recorded demos of Ease Down The Road songs, plus a couple of covers. Pretty lo-fi and hissy, but fascinating stuff.
48 minutes
Compilations of uncollected singles, compilation appearances, collaborations etc. Very clean transfers from excellent source discs.
CD by Box Of Chocolates. Will sings on two tracks. This is the 1999 reissue of the 1990 LP, with song titles changed and tracks re-ordered.
CD featuring live music from various Drag City artists, including 4 tracks from Palace. Recorded 1992, released 1996.
Limited edition 3 track CD single, 1997
Limited edition tour CD, 2001
50 minutes
Rock The Blockade:2000 Incorruptible by Havanarama
Limited edition CD, 2003, featuring Bob Arellano, Paul Oldham, Will Oldham, David Pajo and Pete Townsend
66 minutes
Limited edition (1000) compilation CD, 2003, featuring a Bonnie Billy & Mary Feiock song, "There's Something About What Happens When We Talk" and a song by Party Girls (band featuring Paul Oldham and Pete Townsend).
67 minutes
Limited edition tour CD, 2004. 3 songs from Bonnie Prince Billy, 3 from Brightblack.
27 minutes
Nov 11 1995 Exit In, Nashville, USA
Audience Recording, B+
76 minutes
Audio-only version available. I'm confident that audio recording is simply a rip of the audio track of that DVD (there is a timing difference but I assume that is explained by the transfer (and duplication?) of analog sources; neither version is audibly at the wrong speed.
Nov 20 1996 Galaxy Club, Dallas, USA
DVD, NTSC, transfer from VHS. Audience-shot, from towards the back of the (small) venue, with lots of zooming. Fair-to-good image and audio quality, though with noticeable fuzziness (due to the poor quality of the original source, rather than degeneration through duplication, looks like to me) and some light horizontal stripes. A frame freeze at the start of "Apocolypse, No!".
54 minutes. Incomplete. Few seconds of "Arise, Therefore" missing; filming stops abruptly after "The Risen Lord". No complete version in circulation.
Apr 12 1997 Euclid Tavern, Cleveland, USA
DVD, NTSC, transfer from VHS. Audience-shot, from near the front, a few heads in the way at times. Excellent image quality, with clear zooming. Very good audio quality, occasional mic distortion.
55 minutes
Audio-only version available. I'm confident that audio recording is simply a rip of the audio track of this DVD.
Oct 04 1998 Off The Record, San Diego, USA
DVD, NTSC, transfer from VHS. Audience-shot, from front row. Very good image and audio quality, though with noticeable fuzziness (due to multiple VHS copying or possibly poor quality original source). There are generally cuts between songs; I assume the taper switched the camera off & on to catch just the music, to preserve battery. There are no cuts during the songs.
39 minutes
Audio-only version available. I'm confident that audio recording is simply a rip of the audio track of this DVD.
Dec 06 1998 Bard College, Annadale, USA
DVD, NTSC, transfer from VHS. Audience-shot, from up close towards the side of the stage. Fairly good image and audio quality, though with noticeable fuzziness (due to multiple VHS copying or possibly poor quality original source). Virtually no zooming. Some video transfer artefacts, such as image judder. The audio is a little overblown at higher volumes.
57 minutes. Incomplete, missing the 3 song encore ("Dreaming My Dreams", "Jack And Diane", & "Christmas Waltz"). Complete VHS copies do exist.
Jun 27 1999 Rudyard's, Houston, USA
DVD, PAL. Audience-shot, from about midway. Lots of zooms on Will and band members, though also a fair bit of the backs of people's heads. Very good image quality. Incomplete, and most of the tracks are slightly cut. Complete audio recording available.
42 minutes
Jun 14 2004 The Social, Orlando, USA
DVD, NTSC. Audience-shot, from front row. Excellent quality.
76 minutes.
Incomplete. No complete version in circulation.
Jul 01 2005 Mains D'Oeuvres, Paris, France
DVD, PAL. Pro-shot with two cameras.
13 minutes.
Just two tracks were filmed - "Three Questions" & "Blood Embrace". Complete audio recording available.
Sep 19 2006 "Late Night With Conan O'Brien"
5 minutes.
Performance of "Strange Form Of Life". Two versions: xVid AVI sourced from the US broadcast, and a PAL DVD recorded to a Panasonic DMR-ES10 from the European re-broadcast. The latter has a broadcast message which fills the screen for a second midway through.
Nov 04 2006 Mission Theater, Portland, USA
2 DVD set, NTSC. Audience-shot, from midway back in a small theatre. Image occasionally obscured by people passing in front of the camera. There is some zooming but not much and the zooming is generally not carried out smoothly. Image quality is good to very good. It is slightly blocky, and suffers from regular loss and re-gain of focus due to the auto-focus function of the camera. Audio quality is very good though picking up some nearby chat.
114 minutes. Incomplete. Battery ran out. Filmer reckons about 30 minutes are missing.
Nov 05 2006 Mission Theater, Portland, USA
2 DVD set, NTSC. Audience-shot, from towards the back in a small theatre. Image occasionally obscured by people passing in front of the camera. There is some zooming but not much and the zooming is generally not carried out smoothly. On a few occasions, the camera seems to be knocked, resulting in image judder. Image quality is good to very good. It is slightly blocky, and suffers from regular loss and re-gain of focus due to the auto-focus function of the camera. Audio quality is very good though picking up some nearby chat. There are two audio drop-outs during "One With The Birds"
114 minutes. "God's Small Song" is missing a few seconds from the middle section (disc/battery change?). There are also a few cuts between songs but no further music is missing.
Apr 27 2007 Fortino Sant'Antonio, Bari, Italy
DVD, PAL. Audience-shot, from second row. Excellent, clear image quality. Track one is very dark but that improves after the stage lights are switched on. Framing a little awkward because of the upwards angle required to keep Will in shot and and to avoid the view being blocked by the people in the front row. Virtually no shots of Alex. Some boom and distortion in the audio, and 4 or 5 very brief audio glitches during the encore tracks.
94 minutes
DVD, NTSC. Excellent quality rip of the Palace Records video, released 2001, long OOP, edition of ??. Features a track apiece from Bonnie Prince Billy ("No Gold Digger"), Papa M ("Arundel"), & Havanarama ("Rancho Grande"), plus the Summer '99 tour film Bonnie vs. Boredoms.
DVD, PAL. Short film by Dianne Bellino, 23 minutes, released 2003, featuring Will as Jarod the surfer. DVD also features the "Come In" video.
DVD, NTSC. Short film, 30 minutes, 2004. Highly recommended. Further details here. Better yet, go to that link and buy the DVD from Caveh.
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