The anticipation is there in Elizabeth Stokes solo guitar riff under the opening lines of Im Not Getting Excited: a frenetic, driving force daring a packed Auckland Town Hall to do exactly the opposite of what the track title suggests. As the opener of The Beths Auckland, New Zealand, 2020 expands to include the full band, the crowd screeches and bellows. Its a collective exhalation, in one of the few countries where live music is still possible. The album title, and film of the same name, deliberately include the date and location, lead guitarist Jonathan Pearce says. Thats the sensational part of what we actually did. In a mid-pandemic world, playing to a heaving, enraptured home crowd feels miraculous.

1. I’m Not Getting Excited – Live
   2. Great No One – Live
   3. Whatever – Live
   4. Mars, the God of War – Live
   5. Future Me Hates Me – Live
   6. Introduction
   7. Jump Rope Gazers – Live
   8. Uptown Girl – Live
   9. Bird Talk
   10. Happy Unhappy – Live
   11. Out of Sight – Live
   12. Thank You
   13. Don’t Go Away – Live
   14. Little Death – Live
   15. Dying to Believe – Live
   16. River Run – Live