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YidCore timeline (EN)

2011
reunited for a show

In 2011, Yidcore reunited for a show at The Arthouse in Melbourne on 7 April. In 2013, Yidcore opened up a Blogspot website offering free downloads of all their albums except Scrambles: Live, Rare and Classic Shtick , on the grounds that Scrambles found it too poor sounding even in…
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2009
farewell show

Yidcore decided to disband in 2009, with Presser quipping “how many circumcision and hummous jokes can you make before it gets sad?” The band played their farewell show on 17 December 2009 at the Esplanade Hotel in St Kilda, Melbourne.

2007
third and final album released

The band’s third and final album, titled They Tried to Kill Us. They Failed. Let’s Eat! was released in 2007, again via Rubber Records. The 16-track album contained only 2 covers of Israeli songs, plus a cover of the World War II anti-fascist song ” Zog nit keyn mol “.…
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2004
put out Adam Slander EP

In 2004, when Yidcore returned to Australia, they put out the Adam Slander EP, in which they cover the Chanukah Song as “The Punk Rock Chanukah Song”. The following year, the band released a double album, titled Eighth Day Slice/Fiddlin on Ya Roof , via Rubber Records. The band again…
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2000
first self-titled album released

Yidcore’s first self-titled album was released in 2000. In 2002, the band released the Great Chicken Soup Caper EP, which contained a song, “Why Won’t Adam Sandler Let Us Do His Song?”, in which Presser laments about Adam Sandler not giving him permission to cover The Chanukah Song . In…
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1998
first public performance

The band formed in the late 1990s at Mount Scopus Memorial College , with their first public performance coming in 1998 at an event organised by the Australasian Union of Jewish Students .