Suitcase Builder

TPOS 056 is essentially a catalogue place-holder for all live Bunny Brains recordings featuring Malcolm Tent, TPOS label owner. The goal of this was to build enough material to release a 24-hour set housed in a miniature suitcase (as a homage to Throbbing Gristle's 24-Hour Tape box set). This goal was never fulfilled but many individual cassettes were made and sold separately - each with the same TPOS 056 catalogue number. TPOS 056 was initiated on 11th October 1990 and features performances from 1989 through to 1996. The Bunny Brains were prolific live performers and as such many different live tapes exist. Originally all had the same catalogue number. Track listings differed significantly between performances. In 2021, TPOS CEO Malcolm Tent digitized the entire Bunny Brains live archive. He assigned every individual performance a catalog number, each of which was a decimal subset of 056. The goal was to be able to market and catalog original Bunny Brains performances with no confusion or redundancy. Tent took the original Discogs master list for TPOS 056 (created by Bill Bailey of Equation Records) and organized it, expanded it, and assigned catalog numbers to each individual Bunny Brains cassette. Some have rough titles while many others do not: 056.0 Acoustic Bob Griese ca. 1989 [exact date(s) and location(s) unknown] 056.1 Live at SUNY, Purchase, NY, 9 February 1989 056.2 Live on WXCI, Danbury, CT 14 May 1989 056.3 live in Port Chester: 22 June 1989 056.4 Guaranteed : Live on WBRS-FM, Waltham, MA, 12 July 1989 056.5 Live at Trash American Style, Danbury, CT, 3 September 1989 056.6 Live at The Anthrax Club, CT, 30 December 1989 056.7 Live at The Ozone, New Haven, CT, 5 January 1990 056.8 Love Will Tear Us Apart : Live at the Chameleon, Danbury CT 9 March 1990 056.9 Live at Trash American Style, Danbury, CT, 15 April 1990 056.10 In The Barn : Live at the P.O.E. Barn, Southbury, CT, 26 July 1990 056.11 Live at Myndi's birthday party, Brookfield, CT, 18 August 1990 056.12 Live at Tuxedo Junction, Danbury, CT 4 October 1990 056.13 We Will Never Run Out Of Monsters : Live at the S.U.N.Y. 24 hour noise fest, 20 October 1990 056.14 Live at the S.U.N.Y. 24 hour noise fest, 20 October 1990 (slight return) 056.15 Live Again : Live at The Bank Street Movie Theatre, New Milford, CT, 22 October 1990 056.16 Live at Bard College, Red Hook, NY 8 November 1990 056.17 Bunny Brains At The Moon, New Haven, CT 18 November 1990 056.18 At Your Birthday Party : Live at Glippies Birthday Party, Mill Ridge, CT 26 December 1990 056.19 Live at New York University, NYC, 7 February 1991 056.20 Live at Trash American Style, Danbury, CT, 15 April 1991 056.21 Wild Weekend Part One : Live at The Sorority Sisters Bash, CT, 26 April 1991 056.22 Freak Baby : Live at The Ozone, New Haven, CT, 27 April 1991 056.23 Live Debbie's, Danbury, CT, 30 May 1991 056.24 At The Moon, New Haven, CT 18 June 1991 056.25 Live at Broadwalk Teen Disco, Brewster, NY, 30 June 1991 056.26 Live at The Night Breed, Norwalk, CT, 11 July 1991 056.27 Censor The Moon : Live At The Moon, New Haven, CT, 24 July 1991 056.28 Handy Pocket Calendar : Live at The Chicken Coop, Danbury, CT, 10 August 1991 056.29 Smell The Magic And Rub It All Over Yourself : Live at The Night Breed, Norwalk, CT, 22 August 1991 056.30 Candlewood : Live at The Candlewood Inn, Brookfield, CT 5 December 1991 056.31 Live Western Connecticut State University, 14 December 1991 056.32 Live at The Moon, New Haven, CT 5 February 1992 056.33 Live at TK's, Danbury, CT 16 February 1992 056.34 Live at Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT, 7 March 1992 056.35 Live on WXCI, Danbury, CT, 11 April 1992 056.36 Easer : Live at TK's American Butcher Cafe, Danbury, CT 19 April 1992 056.37 New Haven Peace And Love Festival : Live in New Haven, CT, 30 April 1992 056.38 Live at Tuxedo Junction, Danbury, CT, 2 July 1992 056.39 Live at Grange Hall, Litchfield, CT, 10 July 1992 056.40 Legend Of The Mealbots : Live at The Beat, Porchester, NY, 14 August 1992 056.41 Lounge Act : Live WRTC, Hartford, CT, 18 August 1992 056.42 Live on WPKN, Bridgeport, CT on 20 September 1992 056.43 Beanery: Live at The Beanery, Fairfield, CT, 9 October 1992 056.44 Live at Tuxedo Junction, Danbury, CT, 11 November 1992 056.45 Live at TK's, Danbury, CT, 20 December 1992 056.46 Live at The Chicken Coop, Danbury, CT, 4 January 1993 056.47 Live at The Boiler Room, New Britain, CT, 29 January 1993 056.48 Live at Foxes, North Salem, NY, 27 February 1993 056.49 Live on "Earth Matters" cable television programme, Danbury, CT 15 March 1993 056.50 Live at TK's, Danbury, CT 11 April 1993 056.51 The Truth About : Live at The Purple Gator, Torrington, CT, 24 April 1993 056.52 Live at The Beat, Portchester, NY 19 June 1993 056.53 Live at TK's Punk Rock Cafe, Danbury, CT, 5 September 1993 056.54 Live at The Flying Squire, Danbury, CT 29 October 1993 056.55 Live at TK's Punk Rock Cafe, Danbury, CT, 26 December 1993 056.56 Meat Market Pictures : Live at Tom Sawyer's (unsuspecting) Pub, Newton, CT, 13 January 1994 056.57 Meat Marked Pictures :Live at Tom Sawyer's (unsuspecting) Pub, Newton, CT, 20 January 1994 056.58 Japanese Novelty : Live at The Flying Squirrel, Danbury, CT, 7 March 1994 056.59 Live at CBGB, NY, 27 March 1994 056.60 Live at TK's Punk Rock Cafe, Danbury, CT, 3 April 1994 056.61 Live at Tuxedo Junction, Danbury, CT, 23 June 1994 056.62 Live on Rick's Farm, Goshen, CT 3 July 1994 056.63 Live at CBGB, NYC 22 July 1994 056.64 Live at Middle East Cafe, Cambridge, MA 27 August 1994 056.65 Live at Live at Tuxedo Junction, Danbury, CT, 15 September 1994 056.66 Live at TK's Punk Rock Cafe (part 1), Danbury, CT, 16 April 1995 056.67 Live at TK's Punk Rock Cafe (part 1), Danbury, CT, 16 April 1995 056.68 Live at Moondance, Danbury, CT, 21 June 1995 056.69 Live at 7 Willow Street, Portchester, NY, 3 September 1995 056.70 Live at Middle East Cafe, Cambridge, MA, 4 September 1995 056.71 Live at Live at TK's Punk Rock Cafe, Danbury, CT, 5 September 1995 056.72 Live at Live at TK's Punk Rock Cafe, Danbury, CT, 7 April 1996 056.73 Live at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, 19 April 1996 056.74 Live at Nick's, Philadelphia, PA, 20 April 1996 056.75 Live at Tuxedo Junction, Danbury, CT, 9 May 1996 056.76 Live at The Cooler, New York, NY, 6 June 1996 056.77 Live at The Khyber Pass, Philadelphia, PA, 15 August 1996 056.78 Live on WFMU, East Orange, NJ, 22 September 1996 056.79 Live at The Cooler, New York, NY, 17 October 1996 056.80 Live at The Municipal Cafe, Hartford, CT 23 November 1996 056.81 Live at Brownie's, NYC 1 December 1996 056.82 Live at The Beat, Portchester, NY 21 March 1997 056.83 Live at The Garment District, Boston, MA 20 April 1997 056.84 Live at Bard College, Red Hook, NY 10 May 1997 056.85 Live at The Sports Page, East Hartford, CT 14 May 1997 056.86 Live at Coney Island High, NYC 29 August 1997 056.87 Live at Tuxedo Junction, Danbury, CT, 29 April 1998 Malcolm Tent (TPOS label owner) - as part of the notes accompanying TPOS100 - describes this release as follows: "When Bob Bunny and I formed the Bunny Brains in 1989 we never dreamed it would come to this. Modeled after Throbbing Gristle's 24 Hour suitcase full of tapes, TPOS 056 is a comprehensive document of every live show I ever played with the BUNNIES. (Those that were taped anyway. Most of them were). Some great, some awful, but all were put before the public and destined to remain in the public arena." The track listing on this release page represents the performance dated 11/11/92 at Tuxedo Junction, Danbury, CT. As of this writing (April 12, 2021) each individual cassette in the TPOS 056 series will be available under its own catalog number with its own artwork.