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Martin Linford

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I work, I make music, I drink beer. I don’t “collect” records I just buy ones I like and they tend to accumulate.

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And we continue falling down the rabbit hole of nostalgia with In The Flat Field from Bauhaus. One of my favourite releases from 1980.
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08.11.2025 13:32 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gave this an outing this morning for the first time this century and it still plays and sounds as good now as it did when I was 15.
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08.11.2025 12:18 — 👍 36    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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RIP Brian James, founder member of The Damned and damned fine guitarist.
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07.03.2025 11:06 — 👍 25    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Looking forward to it.

28.02.2025 19:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This time 2 years ago. Field Lines Cartographer and Polypores performing in Newcastle. Excellent gig.
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26.02.2025 08:16 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It was at the Psychedelic Furs gig that the police raided the club, heavy handed, totally unjustified and OTC.. Club as Eric’s closed forever.

22.02.2025 19:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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45 years ago this weekend at Eric’s, Liverpool.
The Vibrators on Friday and
Killing Joke on Saturday.
What a weekend for less than a fiver including a few pints.
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#Eric’s #Liverpool

22.02.2025 09:37 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Two excellent tracks mate.

10.02.2025 19:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Used to go and see them regularly when I lived in London in the ‘80s. John Fat Beast comparing. Brilliant!

05.02.2025 19:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Still got mine mate 👍

03.02.2025 21:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

B side to Do It Clean?

03.02.2025 20:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

They were living through the troubles at the time and this album was the result. There’s enough going on today for people to write/get angry about so yep, I agree with you mate.

02.02.2025 12:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just given it a spin this morning.. set me up for the day that..!

02.02.2025 11:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Recorded in Nov ‘78 and released on this day 2nd Feb ‘79. The classic debut by Stiff Little Fingers feat the magnificent ‘State Of Emergency’.
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02.02.2025 11:03 — 👍 33    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

WOW! That’s excellent mate, the recording is fantastic. I saw them in Liverpool around the same time.

01.02.2025 21:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Unofficial release yes, but listed on Discogs.

01.02.2025 18:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Killing Joke - Live in London 26-7-81.
‘CHANGE’..
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01.02.2025 14:06 — 👍 58    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0
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‘First and last men walk this Earth, but only a few survive.’
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15.01.2025 23:16 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A great live band, especially around the ‘77-‘78 period and definitely on of the best songwriters in the country.

13.01.2025 19:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Check out ‘Ghost Town’ his other book. Excellent!

13.01.2025 16:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes I’ve seen it. Brilliant!!

13.01.2025 16:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Well, what do you call that noise that you put on.. This is pop’
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#xtc

13.01.2025 15:27 — 👍 53    🔁 5    💬 5    📌 1
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This ok?

11.01.2025 21:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My top Bowie album

11.01.2025 21:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Still love watching the footage of that gig

11.01.2025 14:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My ticket for the filming of Shine So Hard in Buxton Jan ‘81. I was 16 and dressed totally inappropriately for the sub zero temps. T shirt and thin camo jacket. It was HOT inside tho.
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11.01.2025 12:24 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Wah! Heat - Seven Minutes To Midnight {1980}
YouTube video by Worried Tunes 2 Wah! Heat - Seven Minutes To Midnight {1980}

Not yet 2 weeks into 2025 and we have,
The most costly wildfire in US history,
The coldest UK temperature for decades,
‘That’ inauguration looming and the doomsday clock now stands at 90 seconds to midnight..

youtu.be/WOgfZ2A9z8Q?...

11.01.2025 09:29 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

My favourite track from them

09.01.2025 16:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The country freezes, the weather I associate with the magnificent Joy Division.
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09.01.2025 10:19 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

My favourite too

08.01.2025 19:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0