LIVE Hot Potatoes! (found uncut version of Wiggles video; 2005)

The Australian VHS cover of the final version

Status: Found

Date found: 13 Sept 2021

Found by: Daniel Celano

Lights, Camera, Action! Show is a concert tour held by Australian children's group The Wiggles. It first commenced on December 3, 2003 at the Perth Challenge Stadium and concluded on December 21, 2003 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. The tour is known for including an orchestra, conducted by frequent session musician Dominic Lindsay. Singers of the orchestra included Anthony Field's cousin Greg Truman, Greg Page's understudy from 2002 to 2006 Sam Moran and keyboardist Craig Abercrombie. Tony Henry (drummer for Anthony Field's previous band The Cockroaches) who worked with the group from 1994 to 2007 in the studio, played drums in the orchestra. During some songs on the tour, purple wiggle Jeff Fatt would take over as keyboardist. The tour would mark the last time Christmas Picnic would be performed live and the only time where it was performed by an orchestra and the first time the songs Central Park, New York, I Wave My Arms And Swing My Baton and the cover of Daddy Cool's Eagle Rock would be performed live.

Background

The December 20, 2003 show at the Sydney Entertainment Centre (the only concert from the tour that Christmas Picnic was not performed) would be recorded and would go onto be released as "LIVE! Hot Potatoes" on January 11, 2005 first in North America, then would be released two months later in Australia. The show would also be released as the group's first live album that would be released to the public on January 1, 2005. The video would be very different then what was released on the album, with the overture being cut from four minutes to one minute and twenty seconds on the video. Clips from the concert would be used in the group's fourth television series titled "The Wiggles Show" and the clips used in the series have a noticeably different audio mix than what was released with the only songs from the concert that didn't make it to the series are Butterflies Flit and Hot Potato. Meaning an uncut version of the video exists that wasn't widely known. Even more baffling is the documentary "On The Road With The Wiggles" which is a special feature on the LIVE! Hot Potatoes video, uses the uncut version at the beginning of the documentary.

Resurfacing

In 2018, YouTube user Jake's Movie Corner uploaded footage from the beginning and ending of the video from a rare promotional DVD that was sent out to the press in December 2004. The footage uploaded is noticeably different from what was released in 2005 with footage from the overture that would be obscures by B-Roll of the group being seen as well as unseen snippets of the overture that was heard on the album but not the video and the footage ends after the concert ended unlike the released video where it goes straight to the credits. It was also later revealed that the promotional DVD had a different audio mix and is the same audio mix from the clips used in The Wiggles Show. In March 2020, another YouTube user named "Peanut Wiggle" did a rip of the promotional DVD, but didn't make the rip public. However, on September 13, 2021, Internet Archive user Daniel Celano uploaded the promotional DVD that contained the uncut version of the video. Josh Wiggle later uploaded the video on his YouTube channel in 60fps on June 1, 2022.

Gallery

The Uncut version of LIVE Hot Potatoes

See Also

TV

• The Wiggles Live at Disneyland (found Australian TV special; 1998)
• The Wiggles (partially found alternate versions of episodes of children's show; 1998-2011)
• The Wiggles Series One (partially lost deleted scenes of children's live action series; 1997-1998)
• The Wiggles Show (partially found animated songs from children's show; mid 2000s)
• The Wiggles (lost unaired ABC pilot featuring children's group; 1995)
• The Wiggles Show (found Latin American adaptation of children's series; 2006)
• Let's Wiggle (partially found short series for children's band; 1997-1999)
• The Wiggles (partially found Taiwanese adaptation of children's series; 2003-2007)
• Wiggle and Learn (lost unreleased original version of children's TV series; 2006)
• A Wiggly Postcard from Asia (rumored/lost TV special of The Wiggles tour; existence unconfirmed; 2003)
• Dorothy The Dinosaur (unreleased fourth season of children's TV series; 2016)

Concerts

• The Wiggles Big Show (partially lost footage of Melbourne performance; 1997)
• Wiggly Party Live in Concert (partially found footage of Vodafone Arena performance; 2001)
• Yule Be Wiggling Christmas Show (lost footage of The Wiggles live performance; 2000; existence unconfirmed)
• Toot Toot Show! (partially lost footage of The Wiggles performance; 1998)
• The Wiggles - NASA (lost footage of National Aeronautics and Space Administration performance; 2004)
• Santa's Rockin'! Live In Concert (partially found footage of Sydney Entertainment Centre performance; 2004)
• Wiggly Safari Show (partially found footage of The Wiggles performances; 2002)
• Wiggledancing! Live On Stage (partially found pro-shot recordings of concert tour; 2006)
• Greatest Hits In The Round (partially lost Acer Arena performance of The Wiggles; 2010)
• Christmas Celebration (lost footage of The Wiggles final performance; 2012)
• The Wiggles LIVE In Concert Tsunami Relief Benefit Concert (partially found footage of Indian Ocean earthquake fundraiser performance; 2005)
• The Wiggly Big Show Tour (lost footage of "The Wiggles" live performance; 1999)
• The Wiggles Reunion Show (partially lost footage of Melbourne performance; 2016)
• Sailing Around The World Live! (partially lost recordings of The Wiggles tour; 2005-2006)
• Pop Go The Wiggles Show (partially found footage of The Wiggles tour; 2007)
• Big Red Car Tour (partially found footage of The Wiggles concert tour; 1995-1996)

Videos

• Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas (partially found original version of music video from album; 1996)
• Wake Up Jeff! (partially found original version of Wiggles video; 1996)
• A Wiggle Tale: Dorothy the Dinosaur Goes to Hospital (found promotional VHS tape; 1999)
• Getting Strong! (partially found original version of Wiggles video; 2006)
• The Wiggles (partially lost widescreen versions of children's videos; 2002-2004)
• Dancing Ride (found The Wiggles music video; 2001)
• Overture Introductions (lost pre-show videos from The Wiggles tour; 2004)
• The Wiggles (partially found unreleased music videos of children's group; 2000s-2020s)
• Toot Toot! (found original version of The Wiggles video; 1998)
• Pop Go The Wiggles (lost unreleased version of The Wiggles video; existence unconfirmed; 2006)

Music

• Get Ready To Wiggle! (lost "The Wiggles" UK album; 1999)
• The Wiggles Show (partially lost songs from Latin American children's series; 2006)
• The Wiggles (partially lost re-recorded instrumentals of Australian children's band; 2000s)