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One Thousand Violins 🎻

For all those people out there who were ever 'let down' by others, perhaps held someone on a 'pedestal' that couldn't have given a s**t about you, well this song might just be your anthem... Catch it at the youtube link here: 'You Ungrateful Bastard' Possibly one of the best 'un-requited' love songs ever made, the video to which is quite brilliant in that it uses 'pastiches' of previous music videos such as Bob Dylan 'Subterranean Homesick Blues', The Levi…

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Under Two Flags, Lest We Forget

Well, as it is coming up to Armistice Day on the 11th and Remembrance Sunday swiftly following, I thought it seemed apt to post 'Lest We Forget' by a post punk band on an Independent Record Label. The header photo was taken whilst up in Sheffield recently which I came across quite randomly on the wall of a café on Kelham Island just a little north of the City Centre, (not a brilliant snap by me I have to be…

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Storage Case...

Drowning Craze Band & Formation Released on the Situation 2 label in 1981. London based post punk outfit The Drowning Craze featuring Simon Raymonde of the Cocteau Twins, his brother Nick Raymonde producing this single for them. Initially featuring Angela Jaeger on vocals, she only played one gig with the band before leaving. She later went on to provide vocals for Billy MacKenzie, Pigbag and The Monochrome Set. Raymonde would later go on to The Cocteau Twins as well as…

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