This was 20 years ago today!
Ascension Band played at the Meatwaters Festival at Happy, in Wellington. We look so young… happy anniversary guys!
By auspicious coincidence, this morning (exactly 20 years on) I found an original DVD of the full performance (as well as discs of the 2005 gigs with the 18-piece imperial phase lineup).
Only a few copies were made, as it took all night to render a DVD in the early 2000s (before youtube and social media), but technology has improved, so here’s the video online.
Bandcamp downloads
The soundtrack is available as a free/pay-what-you-want download from Bandcamp.
A shorter edit of ‘The Riff’ appears on the Gleefully Unknown: 1997-2005 compilation:
This 2004 gig was a precursor to the award-winning 2005 electric symphony Evolution:
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