Circle Jerks “When the Shit Hits the Fan” limited edition red vinyl, Repo Man version 2025. Trust Records. Last night we saw Circle Jerks perform a full set at the Oriental Theatre in Milwaukee, followed by a Q&A with Keith Morris, Repo Man writer and directer Alex Cox, and Circle Jerks’ bassist (though not when the movie and song was originally released) + Repo Man actor Zander Schloss (he played Kevin, the nerdy, acne + curly mohawk’d friend to Emilio Estevez’s Otto); this all before a screening of the full 1984 film. What an experience!!! The evening started with Alex Cox taking vocals on the song “Repo Man” (by Iggy Pop) – in the Q&A we learned that Keith refused to sing it because he thought the lyrics were stupid…and Alex knew all the words. The Keith came out and the band ripped through a full set of, like, everything like “Coup D’Etat,” “Wild in the Streets” and “When the Shit Hits the Fan.” The Q&A was hilarious – Keith let us know he hated the lounge version of “When the Shit Hits the Fan” — which appears on the b-side of this single and we got to hear all about the filming for that scene in Repo Man (it was the hottest day of the year and they spent something like 18 hours in their custom tuxes waiting for that scene to be shot), how Zander got the role (Chris Penn was the original Kevin) and got hooked up with Circle Jerks, and a bit about Alex Cox’s other past, present and future projects. The absolute highlight of pretty much the whole night was when a little boy who couldn’t have been over 8 years old and under 4 feet tall took the mic to ask, sweetly, “How did you come up with the name of the band” to Keith. The entire sold-out theatre erupted into hysterical laughing and it only got more raucous as Keith proceeded to answer the question in great detail, yet he somehow managed to keep his answer (mostly) PG. We then screened Repo Man, a movie I first saw back in ’86 on VHS (or maybe Beta), its soundtrack one of the punk staples in the 80’s. We purchased a bunch of merch, too, including the show poster (this tour is extremely limited to I think five or six dates around the Midwest), this single plus a Circle Jerks/Descendents split, a t-shirt and one of my favorite show souvenirs ever, a generic Repo Man x Circle Jerks beer coozie.