1995

While the year of 1995 was fairly uneventful in the way of musical projects, The Residents were still hard at work collaborating with Inscape on developing and promoting their biggest multimedia project to date: Bad Day on the Midway. After generating a sizeable amount of hype among software enthusiasts, the CD-ROM was released for both Mac and Windows computers late in the year to generous acclaim.

The group also supervised and directed the production of Freak Show Live, a stage play based on the Freak Show project (taking direct reference from the graphic novel and the CD-ROM), at the Archa Theater in Prague, Czech Republic.

Timeline

• Early this year, a demo of Bad Day on the Midway is shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

February

• The Hunters soundtrack album is released on Milan Records.
• A Japanese version of Gingerbread Man is mentioned in a Ralph America catalog.

March

• The Residents visit Japan to promote Gingerbread Man.
• Hardy Fox is interviewed by fans through America Online.

July

• 17th - 22nd: Apple hosts the Macintosh New York Music Festival, a series of performances and showcases of enhanced CDs. The Residents demonstrate their Gingerbread Man CD-ROM whilst Todd Rundgren demonstrated his Individualist CD-ROM.

• Sometime in this period, Fingerprince / Babyfingers is reissued by Euro Ralph, and Freak Show is reissued as a multimedia CD with a music video for the song "Lillie".

September

• 1st: WIRED Magazine publishes a short announcement for Bad Day on the Midway.

October

• Sometime during this Fall, Buy or Die catalog #24 is issued.
• 13th: Entertainment Weekly publishes an article on Enhanced CDs, mentioning The Residents briefly.
• 31st: Bad Day on the Midway is released by Inscape for Mac computers.

November

• 1st - 29th: Throughout the month of November, Freak Show Live is performed for 18 nights at the Archa Theatre in Prague, with musical accompaniment by Czech avant-garde group Už jsme doma. The Residents do not participate in the performances, although they did serve as artistic directors, and they are present for the first night of performance.
• 6th: Bad Day on the Midway pre-orders begin.
• 20th: The Windows version of Bad Day on the Midway is released by Inscape for Windows.
• 27th: The Residents get new eyeball heads made by Industrial Light and Magic; these new eyeballs are made of a special mesh that allows for the group to perform in them with much less difficulty.

December

• 4th: The Bad Day on the Midway guide book is released by Prima Publishing.
• 5th: The Ralph America website is launched.
• 6th: The complete collection of Matt Howarth's The Comix of Two Cities is announced for re-release in the next year.

Releases

• Hunters: The World of Predators and Prey (CD, Milan, 7313835701-2)
• Louisiana's Lick (CD, East Side Digital, ESD Unwaxed 5, Compilation, Sampler, Promo)

Re-releases

• Commercial Album (CD, Euro Ralph, CD 010)
• Fingerprince / Babyfingers (CD, 3'' CD, Euro Ralph, CD 011)
  • "Complete" release of the album, with Fingerprince on the CD and Babyfingers on the 3'' CD.
• Freak Show (Original Soundtrack) (CD, East Side Digital, ESD 81082)
  • New artwork and cover art, promoting the release of the Freak Show CD-ROM.
• UWEB Box Set (10xCD, Box Set, Ralph America, 20 copies produced)
  • Includes all CDs released by UWEB before the fan club shut down.

Compilation appearances

• Wavelength Infinity: A Sun Ra Tribute (2xCD, Rastascan Records, BRD018)
  • Includes an abridged, previously unreleased edit of "Daydream in Space".

Interactive media

• Bad Day on the Midway (CD-ROM, Mac / Windows, Inscape, 1-887428-03-8)