XTC
LIVE BOOTS: LIVE AT EMERALD CITY NEW JERSEY 1981 (RSD26) - LP
UPC: 633367798619
Label: APE HOUSE
Format: LP
Release Date: April 18, 2026
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This product is a Record Store Day 2026 title. It will be available in store on April 18th, 2025 at 8 a.m. ET when our store opens.
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DESCRIPTION:
The first in a series of official "Live Boots", personally selected by Andy Partridge, a
New official XTC bootleg series titled ‘Live Boots’ planned from 2026.
Live Boots LPs exclusive to Record Store Day First of the series kicks off with one of the band’s renowned gigs from Emerald City, New Jersey in April 1981 2LP set cut by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering and pressed on 200-gram audiophile vinyl New notes from all four original band members – Partridge / Moulding / Gregory & Chambers XTC – Live at Emerald City, Cherry Hill New Jersey, 17th April 1981 Listening to this electric performance from April 1981 – for all of its sonic imperfections seems to confirm that status, making it even harder to accept that, within a year, XTC would play its final gigs.
XTC at that time was a performing machine capable of creating megawatts of excitement.
Andy Partridge comments that “we were tighter than a firefly's fundament that night, even more astounding was the adrenaline-soaked speed we took every song at”.
Released exclusively via Record Store Day, this 200-gram heavyweight (double) LP is the first time the concert will be officially available on vinyl and is also the first of a planned series of XTC official bootleg releases titled ‘Live Boots’ & drawn from the band’s archives with minimal audio restoration undertaken by cutting engineer Jason Mitchell working with Andy Partrdige.
TRACK LIST:
- Disc 1 -
1 Real By Reel
2 Life Begins at the Hop
3 When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty
4 Respectable Street
5 SGT. Rock Is Going to Help Me
6 No Language in Our Lungs
7 Ball and Chain
8 Paper and Iron
9 Love at First Sight
10 Roads Girdle the Globe
- Disc 2 -
1 Scissor Man
2 Towers of London
3 Burning with Optimism's Flames
4 Making Plans for Nigel
5 Living Through Another Cuba
6 Generals and Majors
7 This Is Pop
8 Helicopter
9 Statue of Liberty
10 Outside World
