2021

Promotional photo for the Dog Stab! tour, July

For The Residents, 2021 has largely based around preparation for the largely re-schedueld Dog Stab tour, as well as production on *Triple Trouble*. It's noted by the release of *Duck Stab Alive!*, The Residents' newest album and video project, recorded live in the studio over a period of two days.

## Timeline

### January

* 2nd: Bob Uck & The Family Truck - Oddities 2013-2015 is released.
* 18th: The latex eyeball masks are re-stocked.
* 28th: Freak Show pREServed is announced.

### February

* 18th: Additional archival copies of Healer & The Archer are auctioned off.
* 19th: Bobuck - Chuck's Ghost Music is re-released.

### March

* 1st: Gingerbread Man pREServed is announced.
* 4th: Bunny Boy Live In Frankfurt & Ozark are announced.
* 12th: Bunny Boy Live In Frankfurt is released on CD
* 15th: *Miniatures 2020* is released, and The *Tourniquet Of Roses* box-set is re-released.
* 19th: Ozark & Bunny Boy Live In Frankfurt are released on vinyl.
* 26th: Freak Show pREServed is released. *Bobuck Plays The Residents* is re-released on LP.

### April

* 9th: Ozark is released on vinyl by Secret Records
* 16th: El Año Del Muerto & Morning Music are re-released on CD. The latex eyeball masks are restocked
* 20th: The 2021 version of *Constantinople* is released. Fans are encouraged to film themselves singing along to the re-recording to be used in the *Duck Stab Alive* project.
* Picnic/Loser + God’s Magic Finger (Live in Japan) is released

### May

* 4th: *Hardly Gurning While The World Is Turning* is released, a Renadlo & The Loaf remix album featuring contributiosn from The Residents, Eric Drew Feldman, and Nolan Cook.
* 7th: Leftovers, again?! is announced. The Dog Stab tour dates were mostly rescheduled to Summer of 2021.
* 10th: Duck Stab Alive is announced. The Homer Flynn Discord Q&A takes place.
* 20th: The Residents perform *Duck Stab* for a private audience. This is later edited into Duck Stab Alive.
* 21st: The Residents perform Duck Stab Alive for a private audience. This is later edited into Duck Stab Alive.
* 22nd: A Resident flies to Riga, Lativa to study for a project based on the Singing Revolution of 1987.
* But due to a resurgence of COVID-19, A Resident was left stranded in Lativa.
* 28th: Gingerbread Man pREServed is released alongside an Italian cassette re-issue of *Eskimo* from Radiation Reissues

### June

* 3rd: Modern Haromic's lime green vinyl repress of *Meet The Residents* is announced.
* 5th: Duck Stab Alive is released on Night Flight Plus.
* 12th: Leftovers... Again? is released.

### July

* 1st: Modern Harmonic's green vinyl Meet The Residents mono repress is released.
* 15th: Newbury Comics announce their blue vinyl repress of the Meet The Residents stereo remix.

### August

* The Newbury Comics Meet The Residents re-issue is released.
* 3rd: The Residents create their TikTok account, and post their first video there.
* 4th: Homer Flynn is interviewed for WZRD Chicago Radio. The interview largely concerns the upcoming *Dog Stab* tour.
* 7th: The Residents post their second video to TikTok.
* 11th: The Resident stuck in Lativa hitchhikes to an airport in Minsk, where they book a flight to the US.
* 12th: Due to the exhaustion from the Lativa fiasco, The Residents were unable to rehearse, and the majority of the group's US dates were cancelled. The Residents post the 'Die In Terror' music video to Tiktok.
* 13th: The Secret Records Compilation 2021 1/2.
* 14th: The Residents post a TikTok set to the song '*Less Not More*'
* 17th: The Residents post a TikTok set to the song '*The Nameless Souls'*
* 18th: The Residents post a TikTok set to the song '*La La*'
* 25th: The Residents post a TikTok set to the song '*Fingertips*'
* 30th:The Residents post a TikTok set to the song '*Birds In The Trees*'

### September

* 4th: The Residents post a TikTok set to the song '*When We Were Young*'
* 9th: Homer Flynn is interviewed by KFAI.
* 15th: The Residents perform at The Regent Theater in Los Angeles, the first show of their 3 date Dog Stab mini-tour of California.
* 17th: The Residents perform at The Castro Theater in San Francisco, the second show of their 3 date Dog Stab mini-tour of California.
* 18th: The Residents perform at The Rio Theater in Santa Cruz, the final show of their 3 date Dog Stab mini-tour of California.
* 24th: Richard Cherry Red announces that the upcoming Wormwood pREServed set will contain 9 discs, containing 2 full live performances, one of which being the unreleased Fillmore 98 show. He also confirmed that the show's overture and intermission music would be included on the set.
* 29th: Homer Flynn is interviewed by the 'In Defense of Ska' podcast.

### October

* 1st: The Mole Dance 82 vinyl box set was announced.
* 5th: The Residents released an NFT version of their 1980 music video 'The Act of Being Polite', with proceeds going to the Blackrock Foundation.
* 15th: The Residents' 'Inside a Circle of Dreams' virtual reality experinece debuts at The Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories.
* 20th: Pre-orders for Mole Dance 82 begin.
* 28th: Melodic Virtue's 'A Sight For Sore Eyes' is announced, pre-orders are made available.
* *Santa Dog '84* is released by Jannis Tsakalis. The lathe cut 7" EP is given to friends of Tsakalis in a limited quanity of 40, and is completley endoursed by The Cryptic Corporation.

### November

* 12th: The Wonder of Weird Demos 1 is released.
* 29th: The Mole Dance 82 Live In Studio box set is released.

### December

* 7th: Matt Bennett's interview with Homer Flynn is uploaded to YouTube. Due to certain questions asked, it's likely the interview was recorded in July of 2021.
* 10th: The Duck Stab Alive! soundtrack is released, A VHS version of the short is announced. The release will be limited to 40 copies each, and will sell for €400. On this same date, The Residents' 50th Anniversary tour (January-Feburary 2022) was rescheduled for 2023.
* 27th: Homer Flynn is interviewed by humo.be
* 28th: The Wonder of Weird Demos 2 is released.

## Releases

* Bob Uck & The Family Truck - Oddities 2013-2015
* Bunny Boy Live In Frankfurt
* Picnic/Loser + God’s Magic Finger (Live in Japan)
* Leftovers Again?!
* Santa Dog '84
* The Wonder of Weird Demos 1
* Mole Dance 82 Live In Studio
* Duck Stab! Alive!
* The Wonder of Weird Demos 2

Various Artists Compilations

* Miniatures 2020
	+ The Residents - Irish Wife
* Hardly Gurning While The World Is Turning
	+ The Residents / Renaldo & The Loaf - Henri Rise RMX
	+ Eric Drew Feldman / Renaldo & The Loaf - A Convivial Ode (Panda Mix)
	+ Nolan Cook / Renadlo & The Loaf - Scent Of Turnip
* Secret Records Compilation 2021 1/2
	+ The Residents - Circe
	+ Snakefinger - The Spot
	+ Hardy Fox - Walks In The Sand
	+ Bobuck - Memphis Blues Again
	+ Snakefinger - Jesus Was A Leprechaun
	+ The Residents - Die Die Die

Reissues

* Chuck's Ghost Music (Credited to Charles Bobuck)
* Gingebread Man (LP version)
* Ozark (LP version)
* Tourniquet Of Roses (LP+12" Box-Set)
* Bobuck Plays The Residents (LP version)
* Freak Show (pREServed CD)
* El Año Del Muerto (CD Version)
* Morning Music (CD Version)
* Gingerbread Man (pREServed Edition, LP)
* Eskimo (pREServed edition Re-issue, Cassette, LP)
* Meet The Residents (Green LP, Blue LP)
* Duck Stab / Buster & Glen (pREServed CD re-issue, Red LP)

1. ↑ Discogs
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 News Machine
3. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/groups/CrypticCorporation/permalink/989420361804552/?sale\_post\_id=989420361804552
4. ↑ Discogs
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 TikTok
6. ↑ MixCloud
7. ↑ KFAI - BONUS - Homer Flynn (Cryptic Corporation/The Residents) Interviewed by Jon Copeland
8. ↑ Tom Erik Loe on Facebook
9. ↑ In Defense of Ska Ep 37: Homer Flynn
10. ↑ Facebook post by Psychofon Records, October 1st 2021
11. ↑ News Machine
12. ↑ Matt Bennett and Jim Greer Present an interview with Homer Flynn, Manager of The Residents
13. ↑ https://www.humo.be/muziek/50-jaar-the-residents-daarom-zijn-we-altijd-anoniem-gebleven~b9292114/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F