Friday, 24 August 1990
Reading Festival
Reading, England
Toto, "Big Battle" (Dune soundtrack)
From Out Of Nowhere
Falling To Pieces
Introduce Yourself
The Real Thing
Underwater Love
As The Worm Turns
The Crab Song
Edge Of The World
Chinese Arithmetic
intro Madonna, "Vogue"
We Care A Lot
middle New Kids On The Block, "The Right Stuff"
Sweet Dreams (Nestles)
Surprise! You're Dead!
Epic
Woodpecker From Mars

Easy (Commodores)
War Pigs (Black Sabbath)
The Real Thing cover
9
Introduce Yourself cover
4
Other cover
1
Angel Dust cover
1
We Care A Lot cover
1
Confirmation:
PattonTrader
CV Database
Soundboard recording archive.org
Reading Festival 1990 article
Various Reading Festival 1990 ads
Reading Evening Post, 25 June 1990, page 9
Reading Evening Post, 27 June 1990, page 6
Recordings:
Audio: Soundboard recording
Description:
Patton says "Hi we're Spinal Tap!" before From Out Of Nowhere.
Chinese Arithmetic the band chant "You Fat Bastards!" in the middle.
In Sweet Dreams someone says "Now a word from our sponsor".
We Care A Lot: "Donnie from the New KIds, this song's for you"
Before Epic: "This songs about jumping off a very high building in New York"
After Epic: "Thank you very much England"
Easy: "Great evening tonight, everyone's taking drugs, humping in the grass. Your parents would be real proud of you, they used to do that back in the 60s."
War Pigs: Patton changes a line to "Golly gee I hate Black Sabbath"
On This Day:
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1989 Axis, Boston MA, USA
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1997 Lowlands Festival, Dronten Netherlands