03/17/89 - Newcastle, UK @ Riverside

QUOTES

- Candle
["Ocean Spray" commercial plays]
- Kissability
["Ocean Spray" commercial plays]
L: "Called 'Eric's Trip'."
- Eric's Trip
["Odor Eaters" commercial plays]
- The Sprawl
- 'Cross the Breeze
T: "What did you say about the Japanese? Do you want me to hold your coat? [??] That's my name, don't wear it out! What's this? Hey are the police here?Hey this looks like a skinhead jacket. Did you know that we're banned from the pubs? Oy oy oy oy! You're very sexy girls. [someone shouts "teenage riot!"] Yeah! You really wanna hear that?"
K: "You should be really happy that we're not French. Just think if there were all these, like, French bands coming over to the country."
T: "Yo please, um, in the future, if you could refer to me as Doctor Jesus. Thanks! I'd much appreciate it. No, Doctor Jesus. Or if you're, if you...if you're agnostic, you can just refer to me as King Thurston. This song...this song is for all the skinheads that they wouldn't let in tonight, cuz um...no reason at all! I still don't understand it. Maybe uh, it's a question that we'll have to face this next decade. The skinhead question. But we're addressing it with this song. You wanna take a picture? Alright. Did you say..."
K: "Does anyone have a Pepsi?"
T: "Did you say 'Fuck you queer' to me? How did you know that I was of that persuasion? Does anybody got a Pepsi? [laughs] Oh, no no...What's this guy say? Alright, this guy says here we support gay rights, and we hate Christians. What makes you think that there might be a different between the two?"
L: "Cuz Christians aren't about to [??]"
K: "[??]"
T: "Do you support gay Christians? Well..."
K: "This is anti-man, or fuckface. Don't listen to him."
T: "This song is called 'Teenage Fuckface'. [hits wrong chord, starts singing with accent] It's been a hard day's night..."
- Teen Age Riot [no intro]
T: "Okay! When you go to a movie you think sometimes, is this like a gig? I could. It was Joni."
- Hey Joni
T: "Alright. [guy in crowd shouts "thurston moore is michael nesmith"] Fuck man, I didn't understand a fucking word you said. Yow!"
L: "He said you were Michael Nesmith."
T: "Thanks."
L: "I thought you were [??]"
K: "He considers that the supreme compliment of all time."
T: "[laughs] Uh, we're from New York. And this song is about um, buttfucking the singer from Mudhoney. After the show when his butthole's all slippy slidy and it's real...it's real interstellar. That's how people talk from New York City. They use... No, this song is um, um...start! This song...Crucified!"
- White Kross
T: "I get drunk on one sip of beer. Hey, flex yr head. It smells like flowers in here. This song is called 'I Got Yr Cotton Crown'."
- Cotton Crown [tape cuts slightly but you can hear final chord ringing]
L: [crowd is shouting tons of requests] "Yeah, let's do 'Justice is Might', okay? Yo what!?"
[thurston briefly teases 'total trash' then starts playing 'personality crisis' riff and steve joins in]
- Personality Crisis [30 second jam] - Lee sings the lyrics, Thurston does the "la la la"
L: "That's our version of Tim."
T: "Don't criticize us. [laughs] This song is called 'Bless Me Father For I Have Sinned It's Been One Month Since We Did A Gig'. This song..[laughs] Who starts it? Me? You? Fuck? You?"
L: "Is Jesus dead?"
T: "I think Steve needs a shake. [laughs]"
L: "What's your fuckin' problem huh?"
T: "This song is called 'The Wonder', it's about walking around under the bridges."
- The Wonder [segue into "Hyperstation"]
- Hyperstation
- Eliminator Jr.
T: "Thanks a lot!"
L: "Seeya later!"
T: "We're going to Glasgow! [tape cuts for encore break] Thanks! The rest of the crew, the rest of the crew are in the back still. They're getting ready. If you know what I mean. The rest of the crew will be out, they're just sort of um...A big hand for our new drummer Steve! Steve, uh, Steve, y'know, he helped spearhead the Midwest hardcore scene that developed in the middle '80s. I don't know if you saw any of those gigs. Negative Approach and Minor Threat...and the Crucifucks! I don't think they ever made it here."
- Silver Rocket
L: "Thank you!"

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