01/26/93 - Sydney, Australia @ Big Day Out

Date: Tuesday, January 26th, 1993
City: Sydney, Australia
Venue: Big Day Out
SET LIST NOTES
Shoot 
Dirty Boots 
100% 
Kool Thing 
Sugar Kane 
Burning Spear 
Theresa's Sound-World 
Genetic
Swimsuit Issue 
Drunken Butterfly 
I Wanna Be Yr Dog 

  • For "I Wanna Be Yr Dog" SY were joined by Blixa Bargeld and Steve Turner on guitar, Mick Harvey on piano, and Mark Arm, Matt Lukin, Nick Cave, and Iggy Pop on vocals.

    QUOTES

    - Shoot
    T: "Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. This song is called 'Dirty Boots'."
    - Dirty Boots
    - 100%
    T: "'Kool Thing'."
    - Kool Thing [w. "Death Valley" teaser during intro]
    T: "Thank you. Thank you very much. Yeah, I'd like to send this next song to all you beautiful sexy boys out there. This is called 'Sugar Kane'."
    - Sugar Kane
    - The Burning Spear [synth drums during intro]
    [tapes play]
    - Theresa's Sound-world
    L: "This is called 'Genetic'."
    - Genetic
    T: "Ah, thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. It's really nice to be in Sydney. SYDNEY ROCK CITY!! As they call it in America. So um, what's new here? See any good movies? Can you recommend any? We, last night, some of us went to see 'Romper Stomper'. Did you see that? I thought it was pretty fucking good. But you know, I thought those guys...I thought they were pansies. [laughs] I dunno. Cuz swastikas don't really scare people anymore, I don't think. So...what?"
    K: "This is called 'Swimsuit Issue'. It's for the three other girls playing in other bands around."
    L: "Only three?"
    T: "Does that mean, no boys [??]"
    - Swimsuit Issue
    T: "That's right. Alright uh, we're gonna do one for the boys now. But Kim's gonna sing it, cuz only she understands. Uh tomorrow night, Mu-Mesons are playing in town. I don't know where, they're playing in some little fucking place but there's flyers at Waterfront Records. If you go by there they have 'em on the wall. We're gonna go see The Mu-Mesons. [laughs] Hey they're from Sydney, dude! This song is called 'Drunken Butterfly'."
    K: "This is for my best friend Heart."
    - Drunken Butterfly
    K: "Fuck!"
    T: "Thanks, we gotta go! Goodbye! It went by a lot faster than we thought. But before we do, we're not gonna um.. we'd like to bring out some friends of ours and do a song that I think you all know. If you just sing it'd be really cool. Just give us a second to set up and we'll fuck you up, okay? I'm serious! I'm serious, don't go home, cuz it's time to get royally FUCKED if you know what I mean. Okay I'm gonna play some uh, I'm gonna play some tasty bass licks. Okay, I'm gonna play some tasty bass licks! Steve Turner's gonna play some fucking insane guitar with Lee. Alright! Welcome back! Ladies and gentlemen, Iggy Pop is gonna fuck you up!"
    Iggy Pop: "Hey I'm fuckin' Iggy Pop!"
    T: "Holy shit! [?] Nick Cave, he's gonna fuck you up!" [various shouting]
    Nick Cave?: "This is the shit! This is the shit! Yeah! We got Blixa! We got Mark!"
    - I Wanna Be Yr Dog
    ?: [during "Dog"] "Let's arm wrestle!"
    ?: [during "Dog"] "Oh, fancy meeting you here! Excuse me, don't you play in a rock band? Don't you play in a rock n roll band?"
    [tapes play during noise breakdown]

    OTHER PERFORMERS

  • Iggy Pop
  • Nick Cave

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