Yeah, I’m an insufferable nerd when it comes to punk/post-punk history. Apologies.

Attendees at that show also went on to form Joy Division, the Smiths, the Fall, Magazine, Factory Records & Creation Records. Pretty historic.

You might enjoy this mix from that era:

& Viva Mamdani!

A true inspiration & role model for progressives across the country. I hope he is able to deliver for the working folks of New York.

His campaign has convinced many liberals to reject the corporatist Dem establishment & find the courage to embrace more socialist policy alternatives

Love a Buzzcocks reference.

It was actually the Sex Pistols who played at the Lesser Free Trade Hall. Howard Devoto & Pete Shelley invited the Pistols to Manchester & were inspired to form the Buzzcocks after seeing the shambolic performance…

I do hope your optimistic vision is ultimately borne out.

The key is for Democrat primary voters to be more consistent & courageous in embracing truly progressive candidates.

We must vote out the corporatist establishment & clear a path for leadership that embodies the spirit of the New Deal.

But, at this point, I think the product is the fraudulent stock inflated by vapor-ware & not the cars.

Hopefully, this might be the bridge too far that tanks the stock…

…or not, since accountability & consequence are extinct in this Gilded Age…

I dunno, but I feel like, to bolster our fight against fascism & oligarchy, we should encourage him to continue to lean into his delusions & to channel his inner-Marie Antoinette until nothing is left of MAGA beyond the most diehard, cultist whackadoos…

Yeah, it’s a serious Jedi mind trick how the opposition drones on & on about the Democrats’ open borders, while, if you assert the uniquely sadistic, cruel & criminal nature of Fuckface’s ICE, they’ll remind you that Obama was the GOAT of deportations.

That cult is a frustratingly slippery bunch…