Getting Ready For The Disco Biscuits’ First Halloween Show In Five Years With Past Highlights

It has been five years since The Disco Biscuits last graced the stage on Halloween night, and with the announcement that they will be playing a two-night run in Syracuse, NY with shows at the F-Shed on 10/30 and the Crouse-Hinds Theater on 10/31, you can be sure that the band has some tricks (and treats) up their sleeves. The band will be joined by Slovenian-producer ICHISAN on the 30th, and an Official The Disco Biscuits After-Party is scheduled on the 31st which will be hosted by Horizon Wireless at King of Clubs. Purchase tickets to all the shows HERE!

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The Disco Biscuits are no strangers to making things special for their fanbase, and Halloween has been no exception. We decided to take a look back at a few of the most memorable sets that the band has performed over the years. And the choices were:

The Orpheum Theatre – Boston, MA 10/31/2006

Anytime you decide to bring out a choir, it simply cannot be a bad thing. In this case, The Boston Symphony Orchestra Choir joined the group on numbers such as Carl Orff‘s “O Fortuna”, Pink Floyd‘s “In The Flesh”, “Home Again”, “Svenghali”, the Rolling Stones‘ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”….enough said? This easily makes it on the list, with an “A” for effort on bringing the choir in.

Woodmen of the Wood Hall – Eugene, OR 10/31/2001

Soooooo, you’re telling me that the entire second set was an improvised score to “Alice In Wonderland“? Yes, please, and thank you! Add in a “Nughuffer > Linus and Lucy” and a fire encore of “Ladies” and “Munchkin Invasion” and you have one solid Halloween show.

The Jefferson Theater – Charlottesville, VA 10/31/2010

And what about the time the Biscuits aka Tractorbeam brought out Bonobo to play bass at The Jefferson Theater in Charlottesville, VA? That’s right, producer extraordinaire and multi-instrumentalist Simon Green himself joined the group during “The Big Happy” (check out the 48-minute mark). And that “Mindless Dribble > Ladies”….dirty and delicious.

Trax – Charlottesville, VA 10/31/2001

When a show starts off with a “Chemical Warfare Brigade” and is followed up by a deep, dark 44-minute long “Mindless Dribble” you can bet your ass things are going to get weird, but that good kind of weird. Sprinkle in a “Halloween Theme Song” in the middle of a “Little Betty Boop > Floodlights > Little Betty Boop” jam, the band covering Smashing Pumpkins “Cherub Rock” while literally smashing pumpkins on stage, Magner in a wife-beater, and the circle has become complete.

Don’t you love Magner’s wife-beater? How Staten Island of him:

Here is the full set (courtesy of Archive.org):

Pumped for Halloween yet? Tickets are available here.

THE DISCO BISCUITS HALLOWEEN SETS from 2010 back to 1997 (courtesy of Phantasy Tour):

10/31/2010 • Jefferson Theater • Charlottesville, VA
Set 1: Park Ave.> Caterpillar> Tempest> Mindless Dribble> The Big Happy> Widow In The Rain1> The Big Happy2> Mindless Dribble2> And The Ladies Were The Rest Of The Night3> Caterpillar, The Overture
1.    unfinished
2.    with Bonobo replacing Marc on bass
3.    inverted

10/31/2010 • Charlottesville Pavilion • Charlottesville, VA
Set 1: One Of These Days1, Shem-Rah Boo2> Digital Buddha2> Moshi Fameus> Catalyst> On Time> Confrontation3
Set 2: Strobelights and Martinis> Cyclone> Little Betty Boop4> Bombs> Abraxas5> Gangster> I-Man
Encore: Portal To An Empty Head

 1.   1st time played (Pink Floyd)
 2.   unfinished
 3.   ending only
 4.   middle section only
 5.   inverted

10/31/2009 • Auditorium Theatre • Chicago, IL
Set 1: Strobelights and Martinis, Pimp Blue Rikkis, Flash Mob> Mindless Dribble> Caves of the East> Mindless Dribble> Confrontation1
Set 2: Stone> The Devil’s Waltz, On Time> Confrontation1> Spraypaint> Tempest> Tricycle> Tempest> Spraypaint, Spy, I Am One2
Encore: Save The Robots3> Run Like Hell4
1.    dyslexic
2.    1st time played (Smashing Pumpkins)
3.    dyslexic completion of 10/30 version
4.    completes 10/28 version

10/31/2007 • Orpheum Theatre • Boston, MA
Set 1: A Night On Bald Mountain1> Down To The Bottom, Jamillia, The Overture, Once The Fiddler Paid, The Very Moon> Voices Insane
Set 2: Eulogy, Bazaar Escape> Mulberry’s Dream, Above The Waves> A Night On Bald Mountain> Above The Waves, Hot Air Balloon
Encore: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor2, Therapy
1.    1st time played (Modest Mussorgsky); from Walt Disney’s “Fantasia”
2.    1st time played (Bach); from Walt Disney’s “Fantasia”

10/31/2006 • Orpheum Theatre • Boston, MA
Event: All Hallows Eve Masquerade Ball
Set 1: Triumph1> Svenghali2,3, In The Flesh4,3,5> Digital Buddha3, Svenghali2,3> Rock Candy
Set 2: Save The Robots, Reactor> O Fortuna3,6> Reactor, Home Again3, You Can’t Always Get What You Want3,7
Encore: Little Lai
1.    unfinished
2.    dyslexic
3.    with the Boston Symphony Orchestra Choir on backup vocals
4.    last known performance, 2/13/96 (Pink Floyd)
5.    with ‘O Fortuna’ (Carl Orff) intro
6.    1st time played (Carl Orff)
7.    1st time played (Rolling Stones)

10/31/2003 • City Park – Marconi Meadow • New Orleans, LA
Event: Voodoo Music Experience
Set 1: M.E.M.P.H.I.S.> Sabre Dance, Hope, Pilin’ It High, Crickets

10/31/2002 • UVM Patrick Gym • Burlington, VT
Set 1: Voices Insane1,2> Little Shimmy In A Conga Line3, Three Days4, Above The Waves2> 7-114,5> Sister Judy’s Soul Shack, Aceetobee6
Set 2: Story Of The World> Sound One> Story Of The World, Magellan, Digital Buddha> Crystal Ball5> Mindless Dribble> Digital Buddha
Encore: Barfly
1.    preceded by quotes from ‘The Raven’ (Edgar Allan Poe).
2.    unfinished.
3.    ending only.
4.    with quotes from ‘The Raven’.
5.    inverted.
6.    followed by quotes from ‘The Raven’.

10/31/2001 • Woodmen of the World Hall • Eugene, OR
Set 1: Funeral March Of A Marionette, Nughuffer> Linus And Lucy, Voices Insane, Radiator> Reactor1> Nughuffer
Set 2: Alice in Wonderland Jam2
Encore: And The Ladies Were The Rest Of The Night, Munchkin Invasion
1.    contained multiple teases as well as the theme from John Carpenter’s “Halloween”
2.    spontaneous score to Walt Disney’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ which was being shown simultaneously

10/31/2000 • Trax • Charlottesville, VA
Set 1: Chemical Warfare Brigade, Mindless Dribble> Little Betty Boop1> Floodlights> Little Betty Boop1,2> Voices Insane
Set 2: Spaga, Floes, Jam> The Big Happy> Munchkin Invasion, Cherub Rock3
Encore: Run Like Hell
1.    dyslexic
2.    with “The Thieving Magpie” tease
3.    1st time played, with Adam William Davis on vocals while crew smashes pumpkins on stage with a tire iron anw with Eric Bernstein on guitar while Barber smashes.
Set 1: Above The Waves> Jigsaw Earth> Above The Waves, Pilin’ It High, The Thieving Magpie> Basis For A Day1
1.    Completes 10/28 version

10/31/1998 • UMASS Butterfield Dormitory • Amherst, MA
2.    Set 1: Barfly, Down To The Bottom, Morph Dusseldorf> Basis For A Day
3.    Set 2: My Lady Survives, Pat And Dex> Vassillios> Pat And Dex, Nughuffer> Pygmy Twylyte> Nughuffer

10/31/1997 • Phi Sigma Kappa – University Of Pennsylvania • Philadelphia, PA
Set 1: Jam> Run Like Hell> Morning Dew> Aquatic Ape> Frog Legs
Set 2: Jam1
1.    Sam on keyboards, Marc on drums, and Aron on bass for beginning of jam.