Following last year's deluxe expanded reissue of The Hidden Cameras' breakthrough album The Smell of Our Own, the Canadian collective fronted by Joel Gibb have announced a 20th anniversary edition of its follow-up Mississuaga Goddamn. Dropping on 11 October via Rough Trade Records, the release is packed with a dozen bonus tracks, including demos, B-sides, and live session recordings.

Having created their own genre of "gay church folk music" with their self-released debut Ecce Homo, Gibb and co. found international success after signing with RTR later that year. To mark the upcoming reissue of Mississuaga Goddamn, Gibb has shared a previously unseen live video of early track "High Upon the Church Grounds", filmed at the very same show in Toronto where the band first met Rough Trade label bosses Geoff Travis and Jeanette Lee.

Says Gibb in a press release:

“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.”

Watch the Robert Kennedy-directed video below:

"High Upon the Church Grounds" originally appeared in demo form on Ecce Homo and later as a studio recordings on the B-side to Mississuaga Goddamn lead single "I Believe in the Good of Life" – the video for which has just received an HD upgrade.

Mississuaga Goddamn 20th Anniversary Edition 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 (studio version) *
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 (The Clean cover) *
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 the Old Vic) *

* bonus track