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Final show of the Twentieth Century, for ATR.
According to the liner notes, this was their final gig on a tour supporting Nine Inch Nails (who had just released The Fragile). Carl Crack had been arrested on tour in Japan (only catching back up with the band on their way out of Spain), and Hanin Elias was vomiting blood and forbidden to continue performing by medical personnel. At the end of their wits, the band decided to drop a bomb on the unsuspecting, sold-out crowd of 8,000 on November Twenty-ninth.
Released in a limited run (somewhere between 1,000 and 2,500) shortly before the band's demise in 2000, this release is entirely noise. No hits? Shit man, there's no fuckin' songs on this motherfucker. Alec Empire and Nic Endo said "Fuck it," and blasted out almost half an hour worth of electronic noise and distortion before wrecking their shit and walking off stage.
"I still believe everyone's opinion of concert was divided... on our way to the taxi afterwards a few kids threw their ripped up ATR shirts down on the ground in front of us... others just couldn't get enough. A lof of them hated us.
"To this day, nobody has proven there's ever been a comparable noise concert of that scale in the history of Music." - Alec Empire (2000)
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