Toiling Midgets

Toiling Midgets is a rock band from San Francisco, California with "roots in seminal San Francisco punk acts the Sleepers and Negative Trend¹." They were "one of the first West Coast punk bands to experiment with dub and post-punk elements¹", and have been active on-and-off since 1979. They reunited in 2007 after a ten-year hiatus for Dirkfest, a June 7–June 8, 2007 festival taking place at Slim's and the Great American Music Hall, respectively, honoring the late Dirk Dirksen and to play the Haight-Ashbury Street Fair. They have continued to play shows to the present, including a tour of the Northwest in November, 2009. The current lineup does not feature a vocalist, and the Midgets' instrumental rock is almost always defined as "undefinable."