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Schubas Tavern

Chicago, IL
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06/25/1996
Peter Wolf
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
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05/16/1997
The Rugburns
69805
Set 1Nows Not The Right Time For Love
I Love Ya
Slippin Slidin Away
Crazy Crazy World
Single Life
Quarter Inch
Mels Bar
Girl With The Wandering Eye
Belle Of Belfast City
My Body's Changing
Pitbull
Jukebox
Kilkenny Men
Holliston Street
Tree Hugger
Mama
Lockjaw
Good Heart
Steve Toasts
Wallflower
Letter To Althea
I Thought I Saw You Last Night
If I Could Love You
Ballad Of Tommy And Marla
Dirty
Football Tonight
Dicks Automotive
Little Red Corvette
Me And Eddie Vedder
Skyfuckingline Of Toronto
Jesses Girl
Steve Trys To Rap
Waterfalls
The Great Mystery
Lost Keys At Schubas
Laundrymat
Ups My Heart Next Day To You
Hitchhiker Joe
Barney Miller

Encore:
Rub Somebody
Better Be Careful
CommentSteve Poltz - Vocals & Guitar
John Castro - Bass
Jeff "Stinky" Aafedt - Drums
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10/24/1997
The Blue Rags
Set 1Take Me Back
Mystery Train
Dr.Jazz
Bootlegger Blues
First Time(One More Time Tonight)
Freeborn Man
Salty Dog
Alabama Jubilee
Hard Times
Sister Kate
Keep Your Hands Out My Pocket
Circus Song
Bourgeois Blues
You Got Everything
High Down Low
I Got Rhytm
Billy Goodbye
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04/05/1998
Steve Poltz
65442
Set 1Look To The East
Oh!Good Morning
The Great Mystery
98 Pounder
Beautiful Day
Broken Hearts & Painted nails
You Were Meant For Me
Lazy Days*
Winds Of Change*
Silver Lining
Chinese Checkers
Circus Song
Impala Of My Love
Kicking Distance
Days Go Buy
Ervry Thing About You
Lockjaw
Single Life
Holliston Street

Encore:
Wallflower
Salvation Song
Leaving Again
Tree Hugger
Tom Waits Cover Song
ABC's Of Love
Waterfalls
You Should Have Told Me
Welcome Home
Comment*Lisa Sanders Vocals
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09/16/1998
Nils Lofgren
Set 1Damaged Goods
Blue Skies
You
What A Wonderful World
Wonderland
Black Book
Keith Don't Go
Shot At You
I'll Arise
Believe
Goin Back
Little On Up
Moon Tears
No Mercy
Shine Silently
Set 2
Set 3
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06/30/1999
V-Roys
Set 1Motion Pictures
Cry
Mary
The Window Song
You Hold On To Me
Miss Operator
Mess Of This Town
Guess I Know I'm Right
Goodnight Loser
Over The Mountain
Testify
Amy 88
Sorry Sue
Sooner Or Later
Around You
I.O.U.
Cold Cruel World
Kick Me Around
God Damn The Sun
Virginia Way
Wind Down
There She Goes
Muddy Water
Strange
No Regrets
Hard Travelin'
My Baby Worships Me
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12/15/1999
Freedy Johnston
Set 1Until the Sun Comes Back Again
The Lucky One
Cold Again
Sparky, the Heroic Dog
Across the Avenue
Emily
Bus Stop
Moving on a Holiday
Western Sky
Evie?s Tears
This Perfect World
Coffee, Coffee, Coffee
Wichita Lineman
Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
Underwater Life
You Get Me Lost
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03/12/2000
Dan Bern
Set 1Black Tornado
Cowboy
Waiting For Van Gogh
Ballpark
You're Not Here
Witness
Flying Geese
Hang Around
Starting Over
Crosses
Chelsea Hotel>Don't Think Twice, It's All Right>Chelsea Hotel
Disarmament?
Hobo
Truth Or Consequences
El Paso
Monica (partial)
Opposable Thumb
Darva Conger
Street TV
Tiger Woods
Hannibal
Too Late To Die Young
Drips
Birds (partial) / Marilyn (one line)
You Are On My Mind
Most American Men / Gum On My Chair
New American Language
Estelle
Hope For The Moon
Cash & Nin
Lightning Jazz
Jerusalem

E: Back When The Earth Had Two Moons
True Revolutionaries
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04/19/2001
The Autumn Defense
Set 1[Thax Douglas Poem: The Autumn Defense]
Long Forgotten Love
Make It Through the Summer
Revolutionary Mind
Full 5 Paces
Recuperating From the War
This Kind of Day
Wellspring
Under Electric Moon
Nothing At All
You Were Not So Far Away
Be Real
Alone Again Tonight
It's Just That Simple
Encore:
[Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett join..]
Who Were You Thinking Of? (Gauvin/Glaser/Pelletier - Texas Tornados)
True Love Will Find You In The End (Daniel Johnston)
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05/12/2001
Nickel Creek
Set 1Big Sam Thompson, You Don't Have to Move the Mountain, The Lighthouse's Tale, Ferdinand the Bull, Great Illusion, Green and Gray, In the House of Tom Bombadil, Reasons Why, Let it Fall, ?/St. Ann's Reel
Set 2The Loon, Road to Wrigley, This Side, The Decomposing Whale Song, For All It's Worth, Sweet Afton, Cuckoo's Nest, The Hand Song, When You Come Back Down, The Fox

Encore: Sitting by the Fire?, Ode to Butterfly
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05/18/2002
Swearing At Motorists
Set 1 1. (intro)
2. (soundcheck)
3. Bars Close
4. Valentine's Day Massacre
5. Drunk on Monday
6. Telford to North Main
7. I'll Only Sleep
8. Small Town, Big City
9. Flying Pizza
10. Numbers Have Too Many Meanings to Me
11. No More James Dean
12. Talking Pictures
Commentactually Dave Doughman solo, but... yeah, that is Swearing at Motorists.
supported by The Six Parts Seven
supporting 764-HERO
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06/21/2002
Tift Merritt
Set 1Longest Way
Neighborhood
Bramble Rose
Virginia, No One Can Warn You
I Know Him Too
Supposed To Make You Happy
Are You Still In Love With Me?
Kind I Like (aka Kind You Like)
Sunday
Bird Of Freedom
Two More Bottles Of Wine
When I Cross Over
Juke Joint Girl
If I Had My Way
Diamond Shoes
Somebody Should Have Been Watching
Commentnote: end t02 reference to first show in Chicago and then "van breaking down in Pittsburg yesterday" confirms this is June 21, 2002

David Wilson - guitar
Jay Brown - bass
Zeke Hutchins - drums
Brandon Bush - keys
Greg Readling - pedal steel, wurlitzer
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07/12/2002
Cary Pierce
Set 1Get to Know Me Better
Absence of Love
Valencia
Advent
Three of Us in a Boat
Time to Time
Speed
Home
Jacob
I'm Not Ready
When The Stars Go Blue
She's for Free
Full 365
Trials
Best Thing
Vineyard
Sweet Ocean
I Believe In You
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04/25/2003
Dolly Varden
70340
Set 1The Dumbest Magnets
Dangerously Thin
Trying to Live Up
Wish I Were Here
Too Good to Believe
I Come to You
Commentshort set, part of International Pop Overthrow Festival
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12/06/2003
The Stirratts
Set 1When You're Not Mine
Merciful Night
Juniper
Ten Years Ago
Can't Stand Yourself
Heart Like a Wheel
We'll Meet Again
CommentJohn and Laurie Stirratt
Opening for The Autumn Defense
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12/06/2003
The Autumn Defense
Set 1Silence
The Sun in California
Written in the Snow
The Answer
The World Will Soon Turn Our Way
Recuperating From the War
Why I'm Like This
Tuesday Morning
Some Kind of Fool
Iowa City Adieu
Circles
Long Forgotten Love
Pretty Ballerina (Left Banke)
It's Just That Simple
You Can't Have Me (Big Star)
CommentRecord Release Party for "Circles"
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11/24/2004
The Stirratts
Set 101. Thax Douglas Poem
02. When You're Not Mine
03. A Merciful Night
04. Can't Stand Yourself
05. Juniper
06. We'll Meet Again
07. If I Hadn't Blinked My Eyes
08. Ten Years Ago Today
09. Solid Land
10. Canadian Noon
11. Mistral
12. It's Just That Simple
13. You Can't Have Me (Big Star)
Comment"Arabella" Record Release Party
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11/24/2004
The Autumn Defense
Set 101. Thax Douglas Poem "Autumn Defense #3"
02. Some Kind of Fool
03. The Sun in California
04. Silence
05. Written in the Snow
06. The Answer
07. Why I'm Like This
08. Tuesday Morning
09. The World (Will Soon Turn Our Way)
10. Everybody's Been Burned (David Crosby/The Byrds)
11. Circles
12. Pretty Ballerina (The Left Banke)
Comment(Opening for Laurie and John)
Laurie and John's "Arabella" Record Release Party
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12/03/2004
Mic Harrison
73051
Set 1Saving the Widow
Dishonest Jenny
Pick You Up
All At Once
Journey's End
Back to Knoxville
Hazel's Walking
Over the Mountain
?
[New Song]
River City Bluff
Hole In My Heart
Something To Let You Down
Miss Operator w/Scott Miller
Commentw/The High Score

Opened for Scott Miller and the Commonwealth
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12/03/2004
Scott Miller [and the Commonwealth]
Set 1Intro
Anything That's Rock 'n' Roll (Tom Petty) ->
It Didn't Take Too Long ->
Anything That's Rock 'n' Roll - Reprise
Raised By the Graves
Angels Dwell
Ciderville Saturday Night
I Made a Mess of This Town
Wind Down
Drunk All Around This Town
Janey, Don't You Lose Heart (Bruce Springsteen)
Loving That Girl ->
Goddamn the Sun
The Way
Amtrak Crescent
Second Chance
I've Got a Plan
Dear Sarah
Kick Me Around
Teacher Teacher (Rockpile/Phillips, Pickett)
Absolution
-- Encore Break --
Street Fighting Man (Rolling Stones)
I'm Gonna Be Alright w/Mic Harrison
No Regrets w/Mic Harrison
For Jack Tymon
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03/17/2005
Mic Harrison
Set 1Saving the Widow
Dishonest Jenny
Pick You Up
Journey's End
Hazel's Walking
Something
Miss Operator
River City
Ringing in Our Ears
Willfully (New)
Devil's
Over the Mountain
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04/08/2005
Black Mountain
Set 1Tuning
Tyrants
Chat & Tuning
Don't Run Our Hearts Around
Chat & Tuning
Set Us Free
Bicycle Man
Faulty Times
Druganaut
Chat & Tuning
Modern Music (1)
No Satisfaction (1)
No Hits

(1) With Crystal Skulls
Set 2
Set 3
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04/15/2005
Redbird
Set 1[Intro]
Ships (Brown)
Moonglow (Mills)
Patience (Sandman)
I Gotta Get Drunk (Nelson)
Dont Wait Too Long (Peyroux/Harris/Kline)
Ithaca (Mulvey)
Dusty Box Car Wall (Anderson)
Night Club (Allison)
Paradise (Beyer)
4 & 20 Blues (Foucault)
Set 2Goodbye (Earle)
Me, Myself and I (Holiday/Gordon/Roberts/Kaufman)
Northbound 35 (Foucault)
Charlie (Mulvey)
Shotgun Singer (Delmhorst)
You Are the Everything (REM)
Sad, Sad, Sad, Sad (and Faraway from Home) (Mulvey)
Tear My Stillhouse Down [aborted] (Welch) >
Winters Come and Gone (Welch)
Miles from the Lightning (Foucault)
White Freight Liner Blues (van Zandt)
(e) Hold On (Waits)
(e) Hard Times Come Again No More (Foster)
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04/27/2005
Dolly Varden
Set 1[Introduction by David Bash]
Second Chance
Bulbs (Van Morrison)
If You Don't Know By Now
Disappear
Time For Me to Leave
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05/06/2005
Steve Poltz
Set 1Intro
I Love Ya
Lost Without You
Looking For Riders
Chinese Checkers
Stage Banter
Forbidden Fruit
Honesty Camp
Sugar Boogers
Impala Of Love
Freebasin Celery
Naked Van Dance Story
Learn About Love
Shrink Story
Christmas Intro
Sinking Submarine
Chirstmas Intro
I hate Fuckin Chtistmas
Everything About You
If You Want To Sing Out,Sing Out
Numbered Days
Funny Guy
2005(Gonna Make A Big Deal)
Hitchhiker Joe
Pixie Stix Girl
Silver Lining
Masterbation Initiation
Super Taco Dilema
Skyfuckingline Of Toronto
Medical Cereer
Kilkenny Men
Hand Job On A Church Bus
Star Wars Song
Monkeys Coming Out of Your Ass
59th St. Bridge Song
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06/12/2005
Scott Miller [and the Commonwealth]
Set 1[Intro]
AMTRAK Crescent
Ciderville Saturday Night
Hold on to Me
[Scott Talks About Swoope, VA]
Where the Wild Things Grow
I Made a Mess of This Town
Red Ball Express
VA Way >> Dear Sarah
Only Everything
I Remember So Well
Bastard's Only Child
Lie I Believe
Mother Married a Yankee
Mary
I'll Go to My Grave (D. Reid-Statler Bros.)
Angels Dwell
Empty Pocket >>
Absolution
Is There Room on the Cross for Me?
Encore:
[Scott Talks About the Train/AMTRAK]
City of New Orleans (Steve Goodman)
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06/25/2005
Over the Rhine
75464
Set 1Intro
I Want You To Be My Love
Born
Spark
Long Lost Brother
Jesus In New Orleans
Suitcase
Lookin\' Forward
Lifelong Fling
Drunkard\'s Prayer
Firefly
Fever
All I Need Is Everything
Cruel & Pretty
Set 2encore Break
Hush Now
Moondance
Latter Days
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06/26/2005
Over the Rhine
Set 1I Want You To Be My Love
Born
Spark
Long Lost Brother
Jesus In New Orleans
Suitcase
Lookin' Forward
Drunkard's Prayer
Firefly
Fever
Band Intros
All I Need Is Everything
Cruel & Pretty
Hush Now
Moondance
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08/20/2005
John Wesley Harding
Set 1I Should Have Stopped
Monkey and His Cat
Window Seat
The Red Rose and the Briar
Negative Love
Browning Road
The Singer's Request
Do Not Fear the Dark
Joan of Arc (The Ballad of La Pucelle)
Lord Bateman
Female Rambling Sailor
Lord Lovel
Sugarbowl
Bottoms
Our Lady of the Highways
It's Only Make Believe
The Sanguinary Butcher
Shallow Brown
Lambkin
The Lady Dressed in Green
The Abandoned Baby
Sermonette
Bright Phoebus
Set 2
Set 3
CommentEarly show. "John Wesley Harding's Love Hall Tryst" with Kelly Hogan, Nora O'Connor, and Brian Lohmann.
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02/24/2006
Will Sheff
Set 1"Will Sheff" a poem read by Thax Douglas
Our Life Is Not A Movie or Maybe [new Okkervil song]
Girl I [new Okkervil song]
Song of Our So-Called Friend
A Stone
? [new song]
Near A Garden [Shearwater song]
Song About A Star
No Key, No Plan
A Makeover [Shearwater song]
Red
Solo [by Sandy Denny]
A Glow
For Real
Westfall
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07/28/2006
Marah
Set 1It's Only Money, Tyrone
For The Price Of A song
Pigeon Heart
So What If we're Outta' Tune
My Heart Is The Bums On The Street
Long Hot Summer
Living On The Road
Firecracker
Tippicanoe County Correctional Theme Park Blues
The Catfisherman
Walt Whitman Bridge
The Dishwasher's Dream
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12/06/2006
Scott Miller [and the Commonwealth]
Set 1I Made A Mess Of This Town
Pounding Heart
Hold On To Me
Drunk All Around This Town
(At Least He Won't) Call Me Daddy
For Jack Tymon
Freedom's A Stranger
Bastard's Only Child
The Rain
I Won't Go With You
Lie I Believe
Daddy Raised A Boy
Mary
8 Miles A Gallon
Say Ho
Fade Away
Highland County Boy
Wild Things
Amtrak Crescent
Earthly Pleasures (Are The Treasures Of This World)
Dear Sarah
Ciderville Saturday Night
Good Morning Midnight
Absolution
- encore -
Jody
Can You Hear Me Tonight?
Comment- solo/acoustic show
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02/15/2007
Honeydogs
Set 1Belle Epoque
Rumor Has It
Red Dye #40
10,000 Years
Truth Serum
Rattling My Tin Cup
The Rake's Progress
Wrong
Ms. Ketchup and the Arsonist
The Firing Squad Reloads
Hygiene
Elan Vital
Panhandler's Serenade
Too Close to the Sun
Test Tube Kid
Devil's Advocate
Amygdala
[encore break]
Losing Transmissions
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05/18/2007
Dolly Varden
Set 1All Gonna Change (fades in)
Balcony (end )
Complete Resistance (beg. )
Everything is Better
Too Good to Believe
Small Pockets
Triumph Mine, ID
Out of Your Mind
Sad Panda Clown's Lament
I Come to You
Love is a Blessing
The Truth is Told
You Never Will
Your Last Mistake
encore break
Green Pastures
Overwhelming
Good Provider
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09/22/2007
Dolly Varden
Set 1You Never Will
Wish You Were Here
Good Provider
Everything is Better
Be a Part
Sad Panda Clown's Lament
Complete Resistance
Small Pockets
Dumbest Magnets
Almost Made It
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01/22/2008
Jeff Parker
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
CommentJeff Parker g
Nicole Mitchell f
Josh Abrams b
John Herndon d

opened for Happy Apple
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04/06/2008
Blitzen Trapper
Set 1?
Country Caravan
Devil's A Go-Go
Futures & Folly
The Green King Sings
Jericho
?
Sci-Fi Kid
?
Murder Babe
Wild Mountain Nation
Summer Town
? (cut)
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08/15/2009
So Many Dynamos
Set 1Thax Douglas poem
Search Party
Glaciers (aborted)
Glaciers
The Formula
In Every Direction
Keep It Simple
New Bones
Progress
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11/21/2009
Mother Hips
CommentCo-Headline w/ Backyard Tire Fire
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02/12/2011
Truth and Salvage Co.
Set 1Most Amazing Day
?
Welcome To L.A.
?
Hail, Hail The Gang's All Here
Call Back
Brothers, Sons & Daughters
Old Piano
?
Lay Down and Die
?
Drums &gt;
?
She Really Does It For Me
?
?
Put A Little Love In Your Heart

Encore:
Pure Mountain Angel &gt;
The Shape I'm In
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02/08/2013
Mother Hips
Set 1Smoke
Esmeralda
Third Floor Story
Life In The City
Stephanie's For L.A.
White Falcon Fuzz
Chum
Young Charles Ives
This Is A Man
Time-Sick Son Of A Grizzly Bear
Stoned Up The Road >
Space >
Magazine
Whiskey On A Southbound >
Rich Little Girl

Encore:
Been Lost Once
Can't Sleep at All
Set 2
Set 3
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02/15/2013
The Residents
Set 1Loser=Weed
Picnic in the Jungle
Baby Sister
Give It to Someone Else
The Simple Song
Jack the Boneless Boy
The Confused Transsexual
inst 1
Teddy
The Monkey Man
Struggle
The Man in the Dark Sedan
Hanging by His Hair
inst 2
Bathsheba Bathes
Honey Bear
The Black Behind
March to the Sea
Shorty's Lament>
Constantinople
Would We Be Alive?
Santa Dog
Mahogany Wood
Auld Lang Syne
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02/18/2013
Rival Sons
Set 1Pressure & Time
Burn Down Los Angeles
Gypsy Heart
Wild Animal
You Want To
Until The Sun Comes
Manifest Destiny Pt.1
Torture
Jordan
Tell Me Something
Young Love
Face Of Light
Set 2
Set 3
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10/31/2015
Fruit Bats
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
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11/03/2018
Ruston Kelly
Set 1Cover My Tracks
Trying to Let Her
Black Magic
Hollywood
Hurricane in My Head
Dying Star
Blackout
Faceplant
Anchors
Just for the Record
Paratrooper’s Battlecry
Jericho
Mockingbird
Big Brown Bus
Shut the Fuck Up
(improv song to drunk girl who… more )
Son of a Highway Daughter
In the Blue
Asshole
Set 2
Set 3
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03/06/2025
Bevis Frond
Set 1Hole Song #2
Flood Warning
Maybe
Mr Fred's Disco
Stoned Train Driver
Lights Are Changing
Pale Blue Blood
Undertaker
Superseded
Heat
Big Black Sky
He'd Be a Diamond
New River Head
Stain on the Sun
Olde Worlde

Stars Burn Out
Magic Potion
Coming Round
I've Got Eyes in the Back of My Head
Set 2
Set 3
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