Yule Be Wiggling Christmas Show (lost footage of "The Wiggles" live performance; existence unconfirmed; 2000)

Poster for the tour.

Status: Existence Unconfirmed

Yule Be Wiggling is the twelfth album released by the Australian children's group The Wiggles, that was released on December 20, 2000 and was the group's second Christmas album after Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas in 1996. The video of the same name wouldn't be released until October 22, 2001. The video itself was recorded at the Sydney Entertainment Centre during the group's tour in December 2000 to promote the album. The tour would be called "Yule Be Wiggling Christmas Show", it would also be the group's first Christmas themed tour. The tour would become the most illusive tour of the group's career with very little documentation on the tour surfacing.

History

The tour commenced on December 5th at the Perth Entertainment Centre and would end on December 23rd at the Sydney Entertainment Centre with the group performing at Australia's famed Carols In The Domain later that day. The tour would be known for several things, like it would be their first tour to have two acts, the first tour to debut the songs In The Wiggles' World, Christmas Picnic, Wags Loves To Shake Shake, Here Come The Reindeer, Murray's Christmas Samba, Christmas Star, Just Can't Wait For Christmas Day, Ding Dong Merrily on High, Decorate The Tree, Christmas Polka, It's a Christmas Party On The Goodship Feathersword, Curoo Curoo, Wiggly Wiggly Christmas and Jimmy The Elf. It was also the first tour to have Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car as the last song of the first act (as the song would be known as the very first song of the group's concert since 1998).

With little information about the tour available, it's known that the first act would be Summer themed with a mix of both Christmas songs and songs the group did in years past and the second act would be Northern winter themed and would heavily feature Christmas songs the group did on Yule Be Wiggling and Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas. Also what's known about the tour is that Irish singer Morgan Crowley (who appears with the group on the album track Curoo Curoo) appears halfway through the tour to sing Curoo Curoo with the group. The concert on each tour date, opens like the video did with a present descending onto the stage revealing the group inside and that the set from the video was used on the tour as well. This would be the first tour to use guitars that were manufactured by Maton, the group would still use Maton guitars to this very day.

Availability

The tour's setlist from Michael King

A small amount of photos from the tour have surfaced in varying quality, with some of them coming from a Sydney Morning Herald newspaper article on the group that mentions the tour and accounts what happened before, during and after the Perth Entertainment Centre shows. The photos from the Sydney Morning Herald were the highest quality photos from the tour to have surfaced until 2022 when Instagram user highmankieran unearthed several photos from one of the Perth Entertainment Centre shows (one of the photos posted showed the song Decorate The Tree being performed) and several more photos from a fan site that has not been archived would surface not long after. The setlist for the tour was unknown for over 20 years until longtime fan Michael King shared a page from the tour's program showing the full setlist on his Instagram story (Decorate The Tree is nowhere to be seen on the setlist in the program). No footage (or any evidence of footage) from the tour has surfaced in the over 20 years since the tour ended. It is known the group records several concerts from various tours they did and most, if not all of them would be unseen by the public, while very few have been officially released on VHS and DVD, but little is known if any shows from the Yule Be Wiggling Christmas Show were ever recorded.

In November 2020, the group announced on Twitter a series of rare and unreleased materials from the group's career to be uploaded to YouTube in the future called "Unreleased NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN Specials". The materials that would be uploaded to the group's official YouTube would be determined by fan suggestions. Many users on Twitter suggested footage from the Yule Be Wiggling Christmas Show to be among the material uploaded to YouTube. The series resumed on October 20, 2021 following a nine-month hiatus. Outside of the group's offical Twitter account liking a tweet on the tour's 20th anniversary and request a release of one of the concerts, neither the group or any members of the group have commented on the existence of any footage from the tour. For now, the existence of any footage from the Yule Be Wiggling Christmas Show remains unknown.

Gallery

Videos

Yule Be Wiggling video (recorded at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in December 2000 or January 2001)

Promo for the Perth Entertainment Centre shows

Images

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  Backup dancers on the tour's stage

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  Rob Miles in the Big Red Car on the tour's stage

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  Audience photo of In The Wiggles World

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  Audience photo of Rock-A-Bye Your Bear

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  Audience photo of Christmas Picnic

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  Audience photo of the cast receiving gifts from the crowd

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  Photo of the Audience at one of the shows

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  Audience photo of Jeff and Greg

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  Audience photo of Christmas Star

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  Audience photo of Another Cuppa (1/2)

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  Audience photo of Another Cuppa (2/2)

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  Photo from Sydney Morning Herald of Just Can't Wait For Christmas Day

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  Audience photo of Toot Toot (1/5)

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  Audience photo of Toot Toot (2/5)

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  Audience photo of Toot Toot (3/5)

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  Audience photo of Toot Toot (4/5)

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  Audience photo of Toot Toot (5/5)

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  Audience photo of Decorate The Tree

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  Photo of Anthony and Jeff decorating Captain Feathersword (Paul Paddick) like a Christmas Tree

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  Photo of Jeff, Anthony and Greg with guitars

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  Audience photo of It's A Christmas Party On The Goodship Feathersword

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 (lost episodes of unreleased fourth season of children's TV series; 2016)
• The Wiggles (lost Indian adaptations of children TV series; existence unconfirmed; 2006)

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)
• 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 lost 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)
• Pop Go The Wiggles Show (partially found footage of The Wiggles tour; 2007)
• Sailing Around The World Live! (partially lost recordings of The Wiggles tour; 2005-2006)
• Big Red Car Tour (partially found footage of The Wiggles concert tour; 1995-1996)
• The Wiggles (lost video recordings from Wonderland Sydney concert; 2001)

Videos

• Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas (partially found original version of Wiggles video; 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)
• LIVE Hot Potatoes! (found uncut version of Wiggles video; 2005)
• 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)

Miscellaneous

• WiggleWorld (partially found interactive children's website; 2000-2001)
• Neighbours "Episode 3896" (partially found episode of Australian soap opera; 2001)
• Mister Moose's Fun Time (partially found spin-off of "The All New Captain Kangaroo" Fox Kids children's series reboot; late 1990s)