Live Aids

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Live Aids
The Rebel Live Aids single.JPG
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ReleasedSummer 2008
RecordedEarly 2007
Genre Art punk
Label Kanker Mongool
Producer Ben Wallers
The Rebel chronology
Tarscoffsky's The Snackrifice
(2007)
Live Aids
(2008)
Northern Rocks Bear Weird Vegetable
(2008)

Live AIDS is a 7" single by The Rebel that was released in Summer 2008. The limited edition clear gold single is the first release from Montreal "weird punk" label 'Kanker Mongool'. The title is both a play on Live Aid, as well as a nod to The Rebel's tour mates, AIDS Wolf, of which both Kanker Mongool creators, Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum, are members. The album also features silkscreened artwork from Desranleau and Lum's design company, Seripop. [1]

Contents

A Side

B Side

Line Up [2]

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References

  1. Kanker Mongool at Fusetron Sound
  2. Line up and instrumentation taken directly from record sleeve