Live Champion is a bootleg recording the first Hurray live performance, presented on one side of an LP record. Originally recorded using a video camera in 2002 or 03, it
follows the band’s first 7-inch, Hands, and predates their first full-length LP Dream, Not Soft Illusion. The sound falls closest to Treasure Chest, the band’s 2004 LP of home and practice space recordings.
“Less than noise, it is skittering and intimate, like a rocking-chair attached to instruments. Four people play in and out of primitive rhythms, some melodies, and changes of time. The video recording dissolves before the end, but a listener can still sense the whole of the song. An early time in the band, it was one of their happiest live performances.” –from the band