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2 February 1989
Town Hall,
Christchurch, New Zealand

disc 1:
01. Pop Song 89
02. These Days
03. Exhuming McCarthy
04. Welcome To The Occupation
05. Orange Crush
06. Feeling Gravitys Pull
07. The Flowers Of Guatemala
08. Crazy
09. So. Central Rain (slow version)
10. World Leader Pretend
11. Pretty Persuasion
12. Turn You Inside-Out
13. Begin The Begin
14. Get Up

disc 2:
01. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
02. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
03. Just A Touch
encore 1:
04. Stand
05. Finest Worksong
    King Of Birds (missing)
06. You Are The Everything
encore 2:
07. Academy Fight Song
08. Funtime
09. 1,000,000
encore 3:
10. Harpers
11. Micheal tries to get the audience to be quiet
12. Disturbance At The Heron House
13. Driver 8, Strange
14. After Hours

Grade: C-
Quality is slightly below average, but an interesting show (namely Auctioneer and Funtime)

Notes:
-Before Auctioneer, MS usually spits out a few unintelligible lines, but this night, he goes on a 3:00+ minute tirade.  Hard to pick it all out, but I did catch something about man made lakes, the different regions of the USA, and ends it with 'god damn, it's a strange fucking world.' After the song, he asks for a show of hands from those who understood his story.
-Before Funtime (!) MS:'We have to ask ourselves if we really want to play this song.'  He then goes on to explain to Holsapple the structure of the song so he can play along.
-No guitar on Afterhours

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