Bands at the festival included Garbage, Weezer, Silverchair, Tumbleweed, Everclear, Regurgitator, Ash, Jesus Lizard, Dream Poppies, Ammonia, Pollyanna, Mark of Cain, Lyngren, Gaslight Radio, Insurge, Toothfaeries, Crop Circles, Precision Oiler, Otta The Mud, Erth, Paradise Motel, Brink, Black Eyed Susans, Trout Fishing In Quebec, Kominos, Tiddas, Shock Fungus, Charlie Owens and Louis Tillet, Cool Chicks, Isis, Ben Lee, Tim Steward, CIV & Blowhard. [1]
Track listing for the special:
Lyngren [mono.net] are a four piece Brisbane band who at the time were a "band to watch". Their 1996 debut EP "Juncture" was doing well. According to their mono.net page their last release was in 1999, "Arms Since Long Gone" from 1999. Their webpage seems to still be active but hasn't been updated since HTML invented tables. I can only assume they have broken up.
The Mark Of Cain [official website] are still going strong. The official blurb for the band for Livid 1996.
Ammonia broke up in 1999 after it seems releasing only one album, Mint 400 in 1996. They never got over the success of Drugs.
The Jesus Lizard [fan page] broke up in March 1999, their last gig in Sweden, 27th March 1999 [2]. Their guitar player, Duane Denison, went on to become the guitarist and main songwriter of Tomahawk, fronted by Mike Patton.
Regurgitator [official page] recently split with Warner Music Australia after releasing a best-of compilation after three solid albums (and one crap one) and three EPs since 1995. They'll be around forever in one form or another. Full setlist from the day: Social Disaster, Kong Foo Sing, I Sucked A Lot Of Cock..., 7'10, Young Bodies Heal Quickly, Powertool, Hang Up, In One Ear And Out The Other, Nothing To Say, Miffy's Simplicity, FSO, Couldn't Do It, Blubber Boy, Everything That I Want, Attitude (Misfits), Music Is Sport, Exodus (Bob Marley), Wasted (Black Flag), Instrumental, Track 1.
I believe Everclear [offical page] found themselves a new guitarist not long after Livid as this performance was terrible. Although it's possible they had only just got their new guitarist for this gig and he didn't know the songs yet. Either way, they stunk. Their later performance on Live At The Wireless on 22nd September 1997 was much better.
Silverchair [offical site] were still just babies, still albums away from Neon Ballroom. I wonder if his joints had started to hurt yet? (this isn't harsh, I'm interested... my joints hurt). Review of silverchair at Livid 1996. Their set finished with Black Sabbath's Paranoid played with Everclear. They trashed the stage. Full silverchair setlist from the day: Slave, Leave Me Out, Freak, Faultline, Suicidal Dream, Cemetary, Tomorrow, The Door, Pure Massacre, Madman, Israel's Son, Paranoid (with Everclear).
Garbage [offical site] weren't then but are now.
Why am I telling you all of this? Because Triple J and Livid don't.
[1] Powderfinger Central: Concert Chronology 1996
[2] Jesus Lizard page at Southern.com
Pretty sure the iTunes crack simply means you can play the files on more players. It doesn't remove the DRM altogether (that is, you still have to buy the music). It does make it easier to remove the DRM though.