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Mecca Normal's Performance Highlights
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International Pop Underground (Olympia)
YoYo A GoGo Festivals (Olympia)
LadyFest (Olympia, 2000)
Shawnigan Lake Writers Festival (1998)
Bumbershoot Festival (Seattle, 1998)
Sechelt Writers Festival (1996)
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Talk With Tomorrow (New York, 1995) Special performance
for German Futurists
Fast Forward Festival (Holland, 1995)
La Quena Fiesta (Vancouver, 1987)
Ultimatum Poetry Festival (Montreal, 1987)
Opening for Fugazi in New York City, Olympia and Vancouver.
Opening for Poison Girls in London, 1989.
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Opening for godspeed you black emperor! eight shows on the
west coast in 2000. At the two San Francisco shows godspeed you black emperor!
joined Mecca Normal on our last song, Beaten Down,
off our first album, which we performed at our first show sixteen
years earlier. "Ya, you fight the system when youre 22,
but we all grow up to be beaten down. Well maybe some of us will,
and maybe some of us wont, all grow up to be beaten down!"
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Playing with beat happening
Touring with Peter Plate, Go Team, Some Velvet
Sidewalk
Jean plays guitar with Bruce Russell in Christchurch NZ
First show ever: 1984 opening for DOA at the Smiling Buddha
in Vancouver
2 Foot Flame show with Sleater-Kinney at CBGB’s in
NYC (1998)
The first show in Germany, 1993 -- at the Pic in Kaufbeuren --
we thought Dirk was kidding when he said we’d have to play 2 hours!
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||"The Family Swan and ||other
songs" Jean ||Smith's lyrics from
the ||new CD

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||" Afternoon Descends
||To Night" graphics by ||David
Lester

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||Mecca Normal has a ||new
tshirt -designed by ||Jean. Get
one now!

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