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1/6/89 Satyricon. Portland, OR
Supported By: Nirvana1/9/89 The Underground. Seattle, WA
Supporting: Danzig
Set: No One Has, Sweet Young Thing, Chain that Door, If I Think, Mudride, Here Comes Sickness, Burn it Clean, You Got it, Touch Me I'm Sick, In 'N' Out of Grace
Notes: Burn it Clean is performed for the first known time. In a 9/24/98 Seattle Weekly article, Steve remembered: "Mudhoney played with Danzig in Seattle in '88, I think...They had their free-weights in the backstage room. The lead guitarist was just practicing his solos, and everybody else would be lifting."1/14/89 The HUB Ballroom. Seattle, WA
Notes: The photo used as the bonus picture for the You Got it 7" was taken at this show.2/1/89 The Vogue. Seattle, WA
Supported By: Swallow, Love And Respect2/11/89 Marsugi's. San Jose, CA
Supported By: Nirvana, Vomit Launch
Notes: During Nirvana's set, Kurt Cobain balances on his head while playing guitar. Steve tries to imitate him during Mudhoney's set, but doesn't have any success at it.2/12/89 The I-Beam. San Francisco, CA
Supporting: Soundgarden, The Wipers
Set: Magnolia Caboose..., No One Has, Come to Mind, Touch Me I'm Sick, If I Think, Mudride, Here Comes Sickness, You Got it, Chain that Door, This Gift, In 'N' Out of Grace, Hate the Police (set possibly out of order)
Notes: Magnolia Caboose..., Come to Mind, You Got it, and This Gift are performed for the first known time. Hate the Police was not on the setlist, but was played at some point. Between songs, Steve repeats "Blue Cheer" over and over.2/14/89 The Kennel Club. Sacramento, CA
Also on Bill: Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr.
Supported By: The Walkabouts2/18/89 The Covered Wagon Saloon. San Francisco, CA
2/??/89 Berkeley Square. Berkeley, CA
Supporting: Soundgarden
Supported By: Christmas
Set: Magnolia Caboose..., No One Has, Come to Mind, Touch Me I'm Sick, If I Think, Mudride, Here Comes Sickness, Need, You Got it, This Gift, In 'N' Out of Grace3/1/89 The Vogue. Seattle, WA
Supported By: The Fluid3/9/89 The Pyramid Club. New York City, NY
3/11/89 Maxwell's. Hoboken, NJ (55 min)
Supported By: Soundgarden, Sylvia Juncosa
Set: Magnolia Caboose..., No One Has, (unknown snippet) By Her Own Hand(w/Come to Mind), Touch Me I'm Sick, (Take the Money and Run), You Got it, If I Think, Mudride, Here Comes Sickness, Burn it Clean, This Gift, Chain that Door, Need, Hate the Police
Encore: (Magnolia Caboose...), (Take the Money and Run), In 'N' Out of Grace, (Take the Money and Run)
Notes: This is the first known version of Come to Mind, which has the lyrics to Come to Mind and the music of By Her Own Hand and the rave-up part of The Farther I Go. The Come to Mind that they played as early as 2/11/89 is probably this version. Additional songs might have been performed between Need and Hate the Police. Mark introduces Touch Me I'm Sick with, "This is our newest song, it's called Let them Die Slowly." After the song, he says, "OK, now you can go home. Everything else that we're doing is either a Grateful Dead song or one of ours that you haven't heard before." Matt adds, "Now we're going to do a Steve Miller song," and sings, 'A-wooo-gah!' just like in the Steve Miller Band's Take the Money and Run. Before Burn it Clean, Mark announces, "We're only playing one more song, thanks to this guy. We were going to do six more, instead we're doing one. What's your name? Kevin. You can beat Kevin up." After Need, Steve asks the crowd if they know that the band is going to Europe for two months, then starts laughing while saying, "I'm making my living as a professional musician." They close with In 'N' Out of Grace and after the song, Mark says, "Thus goes the dying art form of punk rock. Watch for our next record on Geffen." There's no backstage area, and the band has to exit through the crowd, so Mark finishes with, "We're done. If you want to make way for us, that'd be great. We don't want you to touch us." The DJ throws on a Sammy Davis Jr. record, and Matt and Mark stay on stage to comment about the record into their mics.3/12/89 The Court Tavern. New Brunswick, NJ (45 min)
Supporting: Das Damen
Set: Magnolia Caboose..., Burn it Clean, Sweet Young Thing..., Chain that Door, Come to Mind(w/By Her Own Hand, The Farther I Go), Touch Me I'm Sick, If I Think, Mudride, Here Comes Sickness, This Gift, You Got it, In 'N' Out of Grace
Encore: By Her Own Hand, Hate the Police
Notes: Dan immediately goes from Magnolia Caboose... to Burn it Clean, only, the other guys don't join him. After a second, he starts back up, and everyone is on board. The ceiling in the venue is low, and before Touch Me I'm Sick, Mark points to the ceiling tiles, and says, "Each of these will cost us twenty dollars if its fucked up." Mark introduces Hate the Police as being T.V. Eye. As they're finishing the show, Steve points to a ceiling tile above the audience and shouts, "Who broke that?! That's twenty dollars right there!"3/??/89 The Pyramid Club. New York City, NY
Notes: This show most likely took place on either 3/8/89 or 3/10/89.3/17/89 Newcastle, England
Supporting: Sonic Youth
Notes: A great show. The crowd is crammed into the venue, and it's hard to move around, so Mark jumps into the crowd with his guitar and plays from there for a while. This show made the band hot in Scotland.3/18/89 Strathclyde University. Glasgow, Scotland
Supporting: Sonic Youth3/19/89 Strathclyde University. Glasgow, Scotland
Supporting: Sonic Youth3/20/89 Manchester University. Manchester, England (40 min)
Supporting: Sonic Youth
Soundcheck: Twenty Four
Set: Twenty Four, Magnolia Caboose..., No One Has, Touch Me I'm Sick, If I Think, Here Comes Sickness, You Got it, This Gift, Chain that Door, In 'N' Out of Grace, (The Rose), By Her Own Hand(w/Come to Mind), Twenty Four
With Sonic Youth: I Wanna Be Your Dog
Notes: Twenty Four is performed for the first known time. Before Come to Mind Mark told the crowd, "in New York, it's just starting to get cool to spit on the bands. So, Sonic Youth really appreciates getting spit on. It's like, you know...it's not cool in Seattle where we're from, but Sonic Youth, they know you like them if you're spitting on them." Later, Sonic Youth comes on stage to a hail of spit. Mark sang the lyrics to Come to Mind while everyone played the music to By Her Own Hand. At the end of Sonic Youth's set, the guys come out and play "I Wanna Be Your Dog" with the band and finish the song by all stage diving.3/21/89 Polytechnical. Leicester, England
Supporting: Sonic Youth
Set: Touch Me I'm Sick, Sweet Young Thing, No One Has, Need (set incomplete and out of order)
3/22/89 Kilburn National Ballroom. London, England
Supporting: Sonic Youth
Supported By: UT
Set: Mudride, Here Comes Sickness, No One Has, If I Think, Burn it Clean, Sweet Young Thing, This Gift, Touch Me I'm Sick (set incomplete and out of order after the first three songs)
Notes: This setlist might be from 3/23/89.3/23/89 Kilburn National Ballroom. London, England
Supporting: Sonic Youth
Supported By: Sperm Wails
With Sonic Youth: I Wanna Be Your Dog
Notes: For Sonic Youth's encore, Mudhoney comes out and plays I Wanna Be Your Dog with the group. The guys start throwing Kim Gordon and the rest of Sonic Youth around, and it turns into a big noisy mess, with people and instruments flying.3/24/89 Fullham Greyhound. London, England
Set: Mudride (set incomplete)
Notes: A great performance. At various points during the show, Mark tells the crowd the following: "We came all the way from America just to fuck up," "I'll pay 50 pounds to the first guy who comes on stage and throws his guts up," "We're not playing another song until they erect a stage barrier" and "We're tired of all you over-active young people. Let's get some old people in the front row."3/25/89 De Vooruit. Gent, Belgium (40 min)
Attendance: 1,000
Supporting: Sonic Youth
Set: Touch Me I'm Sick (set incomplete)3/26/89 Paradiso. Amsterdam, Netherlands
Supporting: Sonic Youth3/28/89 Old Daddy. Duisburg, Germany
Attendance: 150
Supported By: Dead Fish Go Bananas
Notes: In a 1997 interview with B.B. Gun, Mark remarked about this show, "There are all kinds of bad band's you'll never hear of like Dusseldorf's Dead Fish Go Bananas, who poured liquids over Steve's amp protesting the fact that the audience didn't like them."3/29/89 Negativ. Frankfurt, Germany
Attendance: 90
Supported By: (no one)3/30/89 Rose Klub. Koln, Germany (70 min)
Attendance: 200
Supported By: (no one)
Set: Magnolia Caboose..., No One Has, This Gift, Touch Me I'm Sick, If I Think, Mudride, Here Comes Sickness, Burn it Clean, By Her Own Hand, Twenty Four, In 'N' Out of Grace, Sweet Young Thing, Chain That Door
Encore: Hate the Police/(Jam), Need, Dead Love
Notes: Dead Love is played for the first known time. Mark introduces Twenty Four with, "This song is about loving your mother, and loving your father, and everything they stand for. Thank you for hanging out." Before Sweet Young Thing, he tells the crowd, "In case you care, tomorrow we're playing in Enger Rock City. They finish up Hate the Police by transitioning into a lengthy and structured jam that is has acquired the bootlegger's title Manic Repression. Mark then announces, "I need two things: one is a microphone stand, and the other is a goddamn beer! I need a beer! I need a beer! Put some more echo on this Erik! I need a beer!..." After that song, they take a long pause and Steve asks, "So, Mark, what should we make up right now?" Mark introduces Need with, "This song's on the U.S. version of Superfuzz, and a live version will be on the next issue of Howl! [issue #3]." The early Dead Love has three breakdowns, delimited by the chorus.3/31/89 Forum. Enger, Germany
Attendance: 320
Supported By: (no one)3/31/89 The Pine St. Theatre. Portland, OR (CANCELLED)
Supporting: Poison Idea, Napalm Beach
Notes: This show couldn't have happened, since the band was in Europe at the time, but a flyer advertising it exists.
Show Flyer4/1/89 Ecstasy. Berlin, Germany
Attendance: 450
Supported By: (one band)
Notes: A great show. The opening band was the quietest metal band that Mudhoney has ever seen.4/2/89 Markthalle. Hamburg, Germany
Attendance: 1,200
Supporting: Sonic Youth4/3/89 De Vereeniging. Nijmeegen, Netherlands
Supporting: Sonic Youth
Set: You Got It, Need (set incomplete)
With Sonic Youth: I Wanna Be Your Dog
Notes: Here's how Mark remebers the show and the events preceeding it, from a 1997 interview with B.B. Gun: "I had this horribly embarrassing freakout/tantrum ten minutes into our set in Nijmegan opening for Sonic Youth during our first European tour. Earlier that day, Steve sliced open his palm on a broken car antenna in Hamburg [on the way back from a record store]. After he got out of the hospital it seemed like there was no way we were going to make the show. Dan, Matt, and myself hit the vodka during the frantic drive. This was our third or fourth week of a nine week tour. We only knew twelve songs which went over very well in England (where the Sub Pop hype machine was working its voodoo). The continent, especially Holland, was a different story, because our booking agent was from Holland and we played 14 shows there. This is a country that takes three hours to go top to bottom and two hours to go East to West. We arrived at the venue 10 minutes before we were supposed to play. I wish we'd gotten there 15 minutes later. I was drunk and freaking out over Steve's hand and trying to make it to the show. The tour seemed like an eternity and we weren't even half way through it. The next thing I know, we were on stage in front of hundreds of Dutch people politely waiting for us so they could see Sonic Youth. Well I was having none of that. These motherfuckers were gonna rock if I had to beat up everyone in the place. I jumped into the crowd, threw a few drunken waterlogged punches and got back on stage. No response, except maybe for confusion, so I cursed 'em and stormed off the stage expecting my boys to follow. They didn't. They were as baffled as the audience. So I'm backstage and they're playing the rest of You Got It, then they go into Need. I'm thinking, 'Great, they're gonna play the rest of the set without me. I could stay here like an ass or I could go out there like an ass and pretend like nothing happened.' After they played another song I sheepishly went out and joined my band. Did I tell you Steve played the whole set sitting down with a big ol' bandage on his hand? It must've been a strange show to watch. Nijmegen never invited us back." Later, the guys join Sonic Youth for the last song of their performance, I Wanna Be Your Dog.4/4/89 Ausweg. Giessen, Germany
Attendance: 1404/5/89 Exil. Koblenz, Germany
Attendance: 130
Set: In 'N' Out of Grace, Revolution (set incomplete)
Notes: What with the German audiences expecting at least 90 minutes of music from the headliner, and Mudhoney barely knowing half that amount, trouble was brewing. They extend their set by repeating some songs, and playing a long version of In 'N' Out of Grace. The path to and from the stage is through the crowd, and the audience won't let them leave without playing longer, so they jam on Revolution for the first time live.4/7/89 Circus. Gammelsdorf, Germany (70 min)
Attendance: 310
Set: Magnolia Caboose..., No One Has, Need, Touch Me I'm Sick, If I Think, Mudride, Here Comes Sickness, (You Got it), Come to Mind(w/By Her Own Hand, The Farther I Go), You Got it, Chain that Door, This Gift, Sweet Young Thing, In 'N' Out of Grace
Encore: (Cinnamon Girl), By Her Own Hand, Twenty Four, Hate the Police, Revolution/(Jam)
Encore 2: Dead Love
Notes: When they come out for the encore, Steve jams on Cinnamon Girl, focusing on the part that they late nick for Broken Hands. For the only known time, Mark promotes the merchandise from stage: "Before I forget, we have t-shirts." They come out for the first known second encore, and after some patter with Erik, their soundman, go into an early Dead Love. The song has an especially long breakdown, then they come back into the main riff in a different, slower groove. They finish and the audience is cheering for another song, so Mark says, "If you like us so much, but a t-shirt."4/8/89 Konkret. Hohenems, Austria
Attendance: 100
Supported By: (no one)
Notes: A very drunk audience. At least ten people pass out in front of the stage during the show.4/9/89 Riverhouse. Fiberbrunn, Austria
Attendance: 90
Supported By: (no one)4/10/89 Arena. Vien, Austria
Attendance: 299
Supported By: (no one)
Set: Magnolia Caboose Babyshit, No One Has, Sweet Young Thing, You Got it, If I Think, Mudride, Here Comes Sickness, Need, Touch Me I'm Sick, This Gift, Twentyfour, Hate the Police, Revolution
Notes: Revolution, which was debuted sometime during the Sprint 1989 European tour, is performed for the first known time.4/11/89 Kapu. Linz, Austria
Supported By: (no one)4/13/89 Bologne, Italy
Attendance: 120
Supported By: (no one)
Notes: A dirty venue with weird people. At one point during the show, a girl gets on stage and strips.4/14/89 Rimini, Italy
Attendance: 2504/16/89 Torino, Italy
Attendance: 200
Notes: The guys finish their set and walk offstage, and the audience just sits there without applauding. They figure that the audience doesn't like them and decide to not do an encore, until the promoter convinces them that the crowd really did like it.4/18/89 Zone Interdit. Grenoble, France
Attendance: 30
Supported By: (no one)
Notes: The club is the home to a motorcycle gang, with a Harley above the bar and reserved seats for club members. As a result, people not in the gang are afraid to go there, and only thirty people are in attendance. The guys thought it was more likely that they would be beaten up than paid for their performance, but things worked out.4/19/89 Gibus Club. Paris, France
Attendance: 178
Supported By: (three bands)
Notes: An experience for the band at least as bad as the previous night's. The P.A. is horrible, and the dressing room for all four bands is as big as a toilet. The guys play while fearing getting beat up after the show. To top it off, the guys end up in the worst hotel they've ever been to, with feces all over the toilets and disgusting rooms.4/20/89 Le Balthazar. Theirs, France
Attendance: 25
Supported By: (no one)
Notes: After the horror of the last two shows, this one feels great. It's a strange little club, but the people there are very nice, and the guys get good food and clean beds. In a 9/24/98 Seattle Weekly article, Steve said of the show: "There was no stage; we just played in the corner of the room. After we finished our 12 songs or whatever - they actually locked arms, and said, 'You cannot leave this corner.' So we had to play some of the songs again." (The article link contains more information about the show.)4/21/89 Frison. Fribourg, Switzerland
Attendance: 4004/22/89 Le New. Geneve, Switzerland
Attendance: 70
Supported By: (no one)4/23/89 Kulturwerckstadkaserne. Basel, Switzerland
Attendance: 9,100
Supported By: (no one)4/24/89 Local Disko. Villingen-Schwinningen, Germany
Attendance: 150
Supported By: The Fluid, Loveslug
Notes: The show is moved to this venue from Bourdons on the day of the show. There's no food or drink at the club, so all the bands get really drunk from the liquor in their tour vans. All in all, a great performance. After the show, all three bands stay at the promoter's house, which results in a bit of a mess. During their next show, on 4/25/89, Mark tells the audience that the next time they're in Villingen-Schwenningan, if a guy offers to let them stay in his place, they should kick him in the groin.4/25/89 Juze. Backnang, Germany (90 min)
Set: Magnolia Caboose..., No One Has, Need, Touch Me I'm Sick, If I Think, Mudride, Here Comes Sickness, You Got it, This Gift, Chain That Door, Sweet Young Thing..., By Her Own Hand, In 'N' Out of Grace, Burn It Clean, Twenty Four, Revolution, Hate the Police/(Jam)/(Dead Love)
Encore: (Good Enough), Touch Me I'm Sick, (Louie Louie), Wild Thing, (I Wanna Be Your Dog), (T.V. Eye), Come to Mind(w/By Her Own Hand, The Farther I Go), Dead Love
Notes: Before Burn it Clean, Mark says, "we're going to do a couple Stooges songs for you." After the song, he explains that, "these are songs from the Stooges' Live in Seattle album." Hate the Police turns into a slow jam where Mark sings about not being sorry for what he's done. After a few minutes, it's sped up into the main riff of Dead Love while Mark continues to sing. During the set break, someone in the crowd asks Matt about Port Orchard. Matt says that that's where Jim [father of Bob] Whittaker lives, and that he was the first American to climb Mt. Everest. He asks the guy in the crowd whether he's ever been to Port Townsend, adding that he bought his shoes there. When he comes out for the encore, Steve addresses the crowd, "here's the deal. We don't know any more songs, so I think we can cash in our one-hit-wonderness and do Touch Me I'm Sick again, then we'll do what you want, because we don't know anymore...and we don't know Halloween!" and they play Touch Me I'm Sick for a second time. After the song, he asks the crowd what they want, and everyone shouts out songs that the band doesn't know. Finally, Mark tells the crowd, "we don't know any covers except for Hate the Police by the Dicks, and we already played that!" and Steve adds, "the only songs we'll do are our own because they're the only good songs that we like." After they jam on Louie Louie and Wild Thing Steve jokes, "I guess we do know some covers." They seem to throw in bits and pieces of other punk songs, as well. Dead Love features different lyrics from the album version.4/26/89 Musictheater Bad. Hannover, Germany (CANCELLED)
4/27/89 Vera. Groningen, Netherlands
Supported By: (no one)4/28/89 Patronaat. Haarlem, Netherlands
4/29/89 De Melkweg. Amsterdam, Netherlands
Supported By: Big Dipper4/30/89 Burgerweeshuis. Deventer, Netherlands
Supported By: Boegies5/1/89. Rockfabrik. Ubach-Palenberg, Germany (60 min)
Supporting: The Miracle Workers
Set: Magnolia Caboose..., No One Has, Sweet Young Thing..., Chain That Door, Come to Mind, If I Think, Mudride, Here Comes Sickness, Need, This Gift, Burn it Clean, Touch Me I'm Sick, By Her Own Hand, In 'N' Out of Grace, Revolution, Hate the Police
Notes: There might be more songs between By Her Own Hand and In 'n' Out of Grace.5/2/89 Nighttown. Rotterdam, Netherlands
5/3/89 Tivoli. Utrecht, Netherlands
5/4/89 Willem 1. Arnhem, Netherlands
5/5/89 Het Bolwerck. Sneek, Netherlands
5/6/89 De Effenaar. Eindhoven, Netherlands
Supported By: Big Dipper5/9/89 "John Peel Sessions". Wessex Studio. London, England (15 min)
Set: By Her Own Hand, If I Think, Here Comes Sickness, You Make Me Die
Notes: Mudhoney recorded four songs that were later broadcast nationally. Host John Peel had tirelessly promoted both the Seattle scene in general and Mudhoney in specific.5/10/89 Norwich Art Centre. Norwich, England
Attendance: 299
Supported By: Basti5/11/89 Barrel Organ. Birmingham, England
Supported By: Smoking Mirror, The Thanes5/12/89 School for Oriental and African Studies. London, England
Attendance: 1,000
Supported By: Soundgarden, Sharkey's Machine
Set: (unknown), (unknown), Chain That Door, Touch Me I'm Sick, Here Comes Sickness, If I Think, Mudride, In 'N' Out of Grace (set possibly incomplete and out of order)
Notes: This is the show that made Mudhoney big in the United Kingdom. 150 journalists are on the guest list to witness the spectacle, courteuosy of Mudhoney's UK press agent, Anton. Their last performance in London, on 3/24/89, created a lot of expectations for this show. During the first song of the set, Mark dives into the audience while playing. It takes a couple minutes to fish him out, and another couple to get his guitar returned. At this point, he jokingly tells the audience "I'd like to take this opportunity to invite everybody to join us on stage." The audience doesn't take it as a joke and comes up en masse. The guys end up pressed against the back wall with their instruments, and can't play anymore. Since the stage is small, the front monitors have been set up on big tables, which collapse when the audience gets to them. All of this chaos results in a 15 minute delay. By the time they all get off the stage, the monitors and two microphones have disappeared and most of the P.A. isn't working. The P.A. guys can't repair the system because they're too busy keeping the P.A. from falling over due to pressure from the crowd. At this point, Mark tells the crowd that they won't play another note until "each and every one of you gets on top of the speakers." Some people do, and then dive off of them. Mark then invites the crowd to throw all of their money on stage, but far fewer people take him up on this offer. By the time they start the third song of their set, Chain That Door, 30 minutes have passed. In 'N' Out of Grace ends the set and there is no encore. The entire show is a beautiful riot, and the first big grunge experience in the UK. Because of all the journalists present, everyone ends up hearing about it.5/13/89 Poly Student Union. Portsmouth, England
Supported By: Soundgarden, Sharkey's Machine
Set: Touch Me I'm Sick (set incomplete)
Notes: Touch Me I'm Sick is introduced by Mark with, "Here's one I wrote with Geezer (Butler) and Ozzy (Osbourne)."5/14/89 Leeds Warehouse. Leeds, England
Supported By: Groovin' with Lucy5/15/89 Knights. Chester, England (50 min)
Supported By: The Mega City Four, (one other)
Set: Magnolia Caboose..., No One Has, Sweet Young Thing, Chain that Door, Mudride, Here Comes Sickness, Need, Touch Me I'm Sick, This Gift, By Her Own Hand, Burn it Clean, In 'N' Out of Grace
Encore: Revolution, Hate the Police
Notes: This is the show contained on the unlabelled Fuzzbusters bootleg. Before If I Think, Mark asks, "could you cut down on the smoke machine, please? It's already hard enough to breathe," and then sings the song, "I forgot how to BREATHE!" During the ending of In 'N' Out of Grace Mark repeatedly thanks the audience while processing his vocals through an echo and a delay: "Thank you, thank you, we love you. Thank you, thank you, thank you, you're the best audience ever. You're beautiful. Thank you..."5/16/89 Polytechnical S.U. Manchester, England
Sypported By: Thee Hypnotics6/9/89 "Sub Pop Lamefest '89" The Moore Theater. Seattle, WA
Attendance: 1,400
Supported by: TAD, Nirvana
Notes: There were many problems with security at this show. Mudhoney stopped playing on three separate occasions, and at one point Mark tried to kick a security guard into the audience. This was the first all-ages show that Mudhoney played in Seattle.7/14/89 The Ritz. New York, NY
Supporting: Sonic Youth
Supported By: Laughing Hyenas
Set: Touch Me I'm Sick (set incomplete)7/18/89 "New Music Seminar". Maxwell's. Hoboken, NJ
Also on Bill: Nirvana7/22/89 Port Townsend American Legion. Port Townsend, WA
Supported By: Britt & Kristin, Pounding Serfs8/11/89 "Sound Out Northwest Tour". Eagles Hall. Anacortes, WA
Supported By: Beat Happening, Mecca Normal
Notes: This was the first of a pair of shows organized by Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening and K Records to bring rock concerts to small towns in the Pacific Northwest.8/12/89 "Sound Out Northwest Tour". Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall. Everett, WA
Supported By: Beat Happening, Mecca Normal
Notes: This was the second of a pair of shows organized by Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening and K Records to bring rock concerts to small towns in the Pacific Northwest.8/26/89 Center on Contemporary Arts. Seattle, WA
Also on Bill: Nirvana, Catbutt
Set: Touch Me I'm Sick (set incomplete)
Notes: This was part of a two day show that featured most of the Sub Pop bands at the time. During Touch Me I'm Sick, plastic bags of sugar were ripped open in the audience.8/29/89 Berkeley Square. Berkeley, CA (50 min)
Supported By: The Lemonheads
Set: Magnolia Caboose..., Get into Yours, No one Has, Sweet Young Thing, If I Think, Here Comes Sickness, The Father I Go, Come to Mind, Chain that Door, Flat Out Fucked, When Tomorrow Hits, Dead Love
Encore: In 'N' Out of Grace, Touch Me I'm Sick
Notes: Get into Yours, The Farther I Go, Flat out Fucked and When Tomorrow Hits are performed for the first known times. Come to Mind is played for the first known time with the music that appears on the recorded version, and the rave-up of The Farther I Go had previously been played as part of the music to the early Come to Mind. After The Farther I Go Steve is asking for some adjustments to be made to his monitor. Someone in the crowd is shouting about Mudhoney manager Bob Whittaker while he's doing this, so he shouts, "Bob's in jail, shut up!" to which Mark adds, "Free Bob! Free Bob!" It's apparently sweltering in the club, and before If I Think, Mark announces, "You can turn off the lights if it'll make it any colder." After Come to Mind, they're still having a little trouble with the on-stage monitor mix, so Mark and Steve play the main riff to Chain that Door, while working on the levels. Matt jumps into the conversation just as they're starting When Tomorrow Hits, asking that Mark's guitar be turned up a little bit. Mark sings the song in a really mellow voice.9/1/89 Spirit. San Diego, CA
Supporting: The Lemonheads
Notes: This show might have taken place in a different city in Southern California.9/4/89 Hey Juan's Burrito Bar. Chico, CA (50 min)
Set: Here Comes Sickness, The Farther I Go, Come to Mind, Running Loaded, Magnolia Caboose Babyshit, No One Has, Sweet Young Thing, If I Think, By Her Own Hand, When Tomorrow Hits, Dead Love, Flat Out Fucked, In 'N' Out of Grace
Notes: The venue might be The Burro Bar. Running Loaded is performed for the first known time.9/23/89 The Backstage Tavern. Seattle, WA
Supported By: Gas Huffer, Love Battery, Dickless10/23/89 The Blind Pig. Ann Arbor, MI
Supported By: Bullet Lavolta, Big Chief10/24/89 The Cabaret Metro. Chicago, IL
Also on Bill: Soundgarden11/14/89 The Backstage Tavern. Seattle, WA
Supported By: The Cosmic Psychos11/22/89 Edwards No. 8. Birmingham, England
11/23/89 Riverside. Newcastle, England (65 min)
Set: Magnolia Caboose..., Get into Yours, Need, No One Has, If I Think, Flat Out Fucked, Running Loaded, The Farther I Go, Come to Mind, You Got it, Touch Me I'm Sick, When Tomorrow Hits, Dead Love
Encore: Mudride, In 'N' Out of Grace, Sweet Young Thing, Hate the Police
Notes: During the first half of the main set they barely take breaks between songs, going from one to the next as fast as they can. After Flat Out Fucked, Steve asks, "has anyone seen my passport? I lost it today. I'm going to have to stay in England." Mark introduces Touch Me I'm Sick with, "this song is about Dan's baby-sitting problems." During the break in In 'N' Out of Grace, Mark tries to get the audience to wiggle their butts, and then tells Dan to solo with only his snare drum. When Dan complies, Mark tells the crowd, "one handed! And he's wiggling his butt!"11/25/89 Calton Road Studios. Edimburgh, Scotland
Set: Magnolia Caboose..., No One Has, Get Into Yours, Need, If I Think, Mudride, Here Comes Sickness, Running Loaded, Flat Out Fucked, This Gift, When Tomorrow Hits, Dead Love
Encore: Come to Mind, Touch Me I'm Sick, In 'N' Out of Grace11/26/89 University. Sheffield, England
11/27/89 Bierkeller. Bristol, England
11/29/89 Polytechnic. Trent, England
11/30/89 Polytechnic. Liverpool, England
12/1/89 International I. Manchester, England
Set: In 'N' Out of Grace, No One Has, Flat Out Fucked, Running Loaded, The Farther I Go, This Gift, If I Think, Mudride, Here Comes Sickness, You Got it, When Tomorrow Hits, Dead Love (encore possibly missing)
Notes: This show might have taken place in Liverpool.12/2/89 Polytechnik. Portsmouth, England
12/3/89 "Sub Pop Lame Festival." The Astoria Theater. London, England
Also on Bill: Nirvana, TAD
Set: In 'N' Out of Grace, Touch Me I'm Sick, No One Has, Running Loaded, This Gift, You Got it, If I Think, Mudride, Here Comes Sickness, Flat Out Fucked, By Her Own Hand, When Tomorrow Hits, Dead Love
Encore: Chain That Door, Baby Help Me Forget, Get Into Yours
Notes: Baby Help Me Forget is performed for the first known time.12/4/89 The Astoria Theater. London, England
Set: Magnolia Caboose..., Get Into Yours, Need, If I Think, Here Comes Sickness, Flat Out Fucked, Come to Mind, Touch Me I'm Sick, You Got it, Sweet Young Thing, When Tomorrow Hits, Dead Love (encore possibly missing)12/5/89 Demo Crazy. Gent, Belgium (60 min)
Attendance: 150
Supported By: The Alabama Kids
Notes: People from the crowd constantly stagedive, which is hilarious given that the stage is only two feet high.12/7/89 Willem II. Den Bosh, Holland
Set: Magnolia Caboose..., No One Has, Flat Out Fucked, If I Think, Mudride, Here Comes Sickness, Running Loaded, Get Into Yours, Touch Me I'm Sick, Need, By Her Own Hand, When Tomorrow Hits, Dead Love (encore possibly missing)12/8/89 Tivoli. Utrecht, Holland
Supported By: The Hippies, The Nozems12/9/89 Vera. Groningen, Holland (80 min)
Supported By: The Hippies
Set: Magnolia Caboose..., Get Into Yours, This Gift, If I Think, Touch me I'm Sick, Running Loaded, Flat out Fucked, You Got it, Come to Mind, Need, The Farther I Go/By Her own Hand, When Tomorrow Hits, Dead Love, Baby Help Me Forget
Encore: Mudride, In 'N' Out of Grace, Chain That Door, Hate the Police
12/10/89 Melkweg. Amsterdam, Holland
Supported By: Loveslug12/11/89 Cafe Europa. Bielefeld, Germany
12/12/89 The Loft. Berlin, Germany
Supported By: Thirsty Justice
Notes: Lenny Kravitz played their the previous night, and they put up anti-Kravitz graffitti all over the dressing room. This continued on the tour, and eventually Kravitz sent word back that his "homies" would "get" the band. To Mudhoney's amusement, the backstage toilet is continuously unavailable due to the sick girlfriend of Thirsty Justice's drummer. Post-gig, things have moved to a different bar, and when they walk into the room, Mark sees the girl and drummer and shouts for everyone to hear, "Ewwwwww...he's kissing her!"12/14/89 Barbue. Kopenhagen, Denmark
12/15/89 Fabrik. Hamburg, Germany
12/16/89 Ruhrersaal. Nurnberg, Germany
12/17/89 U4. Wien (Vienna), Austria (35 min)
Set: Sweet Young Thing..., If I Think, Mudride, By Her Own Hand, Need, You Got it, Touch Me I'm Sick, In 'N' Out of Grace12/19/89 Theaterfabrik. Munchen, Germany
12/20/89 Rote Fabrik. Zurich, Switzerland
Also on Bill: White Zombie12/21/89 Cirque Anne Frateline. Paris, France
Supporting: Thee Hypnotics
Supported By: Under Neath What, White Zombie12/??/89 The Vogue. Seattle, WA
Notes: This might be 12/24/89.??/??/89
Set: Magnolia Caboose..., Get Into Yours, Who You Drivin' Now?, You Got it, Into the Drink, When Tomorrow Hits, In 'N' Out of Grace (Set Incomplete)
Notes: Reports have this show in Tacoma, WA, however on 8/1/03, Mark says that they are playing the city for the first time.??/??/89 The Whole. Minneapolis, MN
Notes: This occured just before the Milwaukee show and took place on a Friday night. Soundgarden played this venue the next night.??/??/89 Milwaukee, WI (50 min)
Set: Magnolia Caboose..., No One Has, Flat Out Fucked, By Her Own Hand, Come to Mind, Chain That Door, Touch Me I'm Sick, This Gift, Get Into Yours, When Tomorrow Hits, Dead Love
Encore: The Farther I Go, In 'N' Out of Grace
Notes: The performance of Touch Me I'm Sick from this show appears on the Crack-Uzis-'N-Safe Sex bootleg.??/??/89 City Gardens. Trenton, NJ
Notes: This show took place in either September or October - most likely October, given that they played elsewhere off the West Coast that month.
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