The Hidden Cameras - Mississauga Goddam (20th Anniversary Edition) (2024)

The Hidden Cameras in collaboration with Rough Trade Records, announce a 20th anniversary expanded reissue of their album ‘Mississauga Goddam’ to be released on October 11th 2024. The reissue features features bonus demos, b-sides and live session recordings. To mark the announcement of this reissue, a never before seen video of the band performing ‘High Upon The Church Grounds’ live at Old Vic Church in Toronto is also being shared today.

“I’m so happy to finally make this live recording and video available of ‘High upon the Church Grounds’ as it encapsulates the essence of what we were doing in 2002 perfectly. The song was written in Vienna as I was backpacking across Europe before I started a band or even performed live ever. It was written with the idea of a large band performing alongside me with „drums and bombs blowing up and about“ and a choir chanting as ‘saints’ - a seemingly never-ending song that starts as a humble folk song and ends as a bombastic krautrock anthem. A song about the church performed in the church at the turn of the millennium. This particular performance was in the chapel at Old Vic in the University of Toronto. We blew their fuse with all the gear and lights we were using during the soundcheck. This was also the performance that Geoff and Jeanette (from Rough Trade) attended and signed us shortly thereafter.” Joel Gibb



Tracklist:
1 Doot Doot Plot
2 Builds the Bone
3 Fear Is On
4 That's When the Ceremony Starts
5 I Believe in the Good of Life
6 In the Union of Wine
7 Music Is My Boyfriend
8 Bboy
9 We Oh We
10 I Want Another Enema
11 Mississauga Goddam
12 High Upon the Church Grounds
13 I Burn My Seed
14 Music Is My Boyfriend (CBC Session)
15 Builds the Bone (CBC Session)
16 Fear Is On (4-Track Demo)
17 Steal All You Can Motherfucker
18 Divide
19 Dunes
20 Music Is My Boyfriend (4-Track Demo)
21 I Believe in the Good of Life (4-Track Demo)
22 Bboy (4-Track Demo)
23 High Upon the Church Grounds (Live at Old Vic)