Release Date: 16th May 2025
Catalogue Number: LTGCD21

• CD - card eco pack, printed with gold ink

Throbbing Gristle release Live at the Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005, via Mute.

This release, previously featured in the TG Berlin box set, captures Throbbing Gristle's unforgettable New Year’s Eve performance, part of a specially curated series of live events held at the Volksbühne, Berlin in 2005 and 2006. The setlist included a preview of five tracks from their first album in 27 years, Part Two: The Endless Not—which was released several years later. Fans were also treated to TG’s first encore in 25/26 years, which included iconic songs like ‘Convincing People’, ‘Slug Bait’, and ‘Hamburger Lady—what an encore!

Formed in 1975, Throbbing Gristle - Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950-2020) and Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson (1955-2010), fully delivered on punk’s failed promise to explore extreme culture as a way of sabotaging systems of control. Their impact on music, culture and the arts has been immeasurable, and still felt today across music, film, theatre, and fine art.

“TG Berlin is a fine document of how brilliant the second incarnation gigs were” - The Quietus Album of the Week

“Just imagine what it must have been like hearing Hamburger Lady at midnight! That sure beats Auld Lang Syne at least.” - Music OMH

“The Volksbühne set is magisterial… the group’s last single will do just fine as a last will and testament, a thing of slippery malevolence” - Uncut 8/10

“All the Throbbing Gristle live recordings, from the tattiest bootleg to the most professional recording, are important. But this one is especially so.” - Electronic Sound

1. Trumpet Herald (Live at the Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
2. Convincing People (Live at the Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
3. Splitting Sky (Live at the Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
4. Slug Bait (Live at the Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
5. Rabbit Snare (Live at the Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
6. Almost a Kiss (Live at the Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
7. Greasy Poo (Live at the Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
8. The Endless Not (Live at the Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
9. Vow of Silence (Live at the Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
10. PA Destroyer (Live at the Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)
11. Hamburger Lady (Live at the Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year's Eve, 2005)