XTC - Live Boots Live at Emerald City 1981 RSD2026

This is a Record Store Day 2026 title, and should be available in store from 8am on Saturday 18th April 2026. It cannot be pre-ordered or reserved. Any remaining quantities will be available online from 8pm on Monday 20th April.

New official XTC bootleg series titled Live Boots. 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 and 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 and drawn from the band’s archives with minimal audio restoration undertaken by cutting engineer Jason Mitchell working with Andy Partrdige.