What: Live Show
Venue: Great American Music Hall
Town: San Francisco
Date: Saturday, 11^th of September 1999

Pat Fish, Max Eider, Owen Jones, Kevin Haskins, Steve Valentine, Derek Hokal

(photo: Mark Miller, MJMiller[at]-remove-co.anoka.mn.us)

(photos: David Whittemore)

Partytime, What's The Matter, Boy?, Whaddya?, Raking Up the Leaves, La Mer, The Human Jungle, Just Like Betty Page, Drink, Baby, It's You, Girls Who Keep Goldfish, Don't Let Me Keep You (Owen Jones), Soul Happy Hour, Angels -- Jazz Butcher -v- Count Dracula, Mr. Odd, She's On Drugs, Walk With The Devil, President Reagan's Birthday Present, Caroline Wheeler's Birthday Present, The Long Night Starts, Rain, Girlfriend, Old Snakey, Bigfoot Motel, Zombie Love -- Who Loves You Now?, Take The Skinheads Bowling -- Roadrunner (Richman)

With David flying of to Hawaii to DJ in a fetish club, we enrolled Steve Valentine of Saltypop to play the bass for us. Also we added Kevin's friend Derek, who came and played theremin on "Dracula" and "Roadrunner". There was no support act, so we did that job ourselves, playing an acoustic set which saw the first American renditions of Max's "Baby It's You" and Owen's sublime "Don't Let Me Keep You (Owen Jones)".

After a half hour cigarette break (you can't smoke on stage in California) we were back for a scary band set, Dracula erupting out of a spooky theremin-led Chord O Fear.

I'm told that the photos of this show make it look as though Max and I have taken to wearing pastel-coloured Miami Vice style suits. Rest assured, ladies and gents, it was just the stage lighting. The suits are black. Of course.

Much after show drinking in an ignorant faux-British bar with horrible folk music played far too loudly. Still, they served Pilsner Urquell so the Butcher could handle it.

Audience: About 400

Man of the match: Owen

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