Record Store Day 26!

Available to buy instore only on a first come, first served basis on the 18 April. Any stock left over at 6pm on the 20th April will then be available to buy online.

Usual RSD rules apply. See below if you're not familiar with them.

LIVE BOOTS - Live at Emerald City 1981 - RSD26

LIVE BOOTS - Live at Emerald City 1981 - RSD26

Artist: XTC

Genre: Indie/Rock

Label: Ape House

Release date:

New official XTC bootleg series titled ‘Live Boots’ planned from 2026. 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

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.

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Any stock left over after the weekend will be made available online at 6pm on Monday 20 April. Not before.

No! No matter what your particularly unique set of circumstances are that mean you can't make it on the day (!) we are not allowed to reserve stock for you. Please don't as us to.

Nope. Records will only be available on the day on a first come first served basis so get to the shop early to avoid disappointment. We will look after you! Anything that does not sell will be available on our website afterwards.

We won't know how many titles we will have (vs what we've ordered) until the boxes turn up in the week of RSD.. We won't be able to predict when items sell out either.

To avoid people reselling online for a higher price and to make sure everyone gets what they want, we are limiting customers to one copy of any one LP.

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