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Cal
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scatterbrained NB freak living in Manchester. Phantasy, K.Deliniate, Crush Zone. Buy CZR: #004 Leucotome s/t demo here: https://crushzonerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/leucotome
Being ill all the time is fucking shit tbh
June 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
is it a stretch for me to be mad suspect of white boys in ‘post punk’ bands that claim to hate dub?
May 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Still can’t believe I got to see Martin Rev in farsley the other day. Very surreal experience. It was the perfect way of getting schooled by the elders. At 77 he still encapsulated the spirit of Suicide. I rarely go and see my ‘heroes’ but it was so worth it!
May 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Reposted by Cal
2FAC & Phantasy delivering a deliriously unhinged blast of libidinal carnage, poking more than a bit of fun at oh-so-serious posturing.
May 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Manchester comrades! Protest this weekend! Please share!
March 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
NEVERMIND THEN HAHA
March 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This record is just so so good. The fact they’re all kids is insane. Perfect intersection between anarcho / post punk & goth, can’t stop listening. & a 16 year old Chris liberator (now acid techno legend) on bass.

growyourownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/illusi...
ILLUSION: THE COMPLETE STUDIO SESSIONS, by COLD WAR
11 track album
growyourownrecords.bandcamp.com
February 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
‘Leucotome are the perfect agglomeration of everything that was good about those legendary Factory Records bands and other 1979-82 flange-pedal covens - especially the more skeletal- and abject-sounding groups, like Section 25 and AC Marias.’

CZR #004 out now!

tinyurl.com/Crush4Leucot...
February 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Those lucky enough to have a golden ticket to the Tristwch y Fenywod / Leucotome show at Hallé St. Michael’s tomorrow night (well, technically tonight) have first dibs on the new Leucotome demo tape. There will be a VERY limited amount for sale!
February 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Love it when people leave their day tickets on the machine when they’ve finished using them, should be standard practise! Also bus tickets in manc now last for an hour, so be sure to hand your ticket to someone getting on if you’re only making the one trip in an hour!
January 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
CZR #004 is imminent! The Leucotome tapes will be available on the CZR Bandcamp soon! also in person at their show supporting Tristwch y Fenywod @ St. Michael’s church on the 1st of Feb (which is sold out!!)
January 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Playing a solo gig in Leeds next month!
January 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
gonna do a thread of my favourite live footage of bands (either gigs or ‘session’ type vids) for my own reference but also for yours! starting with a banger, Bad Brains @ CBGB 1982 youtu.be/5gTFRHOb9us?...
Bad Brains - (HD)(Live at CBGB DVD)(New York 1982)(Full Concert)720p
YouTube video by burtonbcell3
youtu.be
January 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I’ve still never seen Inland Empire, Lost Highway or Dune. Probs time for a DL marathon. It’s rare a celeb death stings as much as this one, at least I know I’m sharing it with lotssss of people
January 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
What’s the best way to get music played on bbc radio (like the freak zone thing?) ((not my music))
January 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I am already so sick of seeing AI images 😞
January 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
on the subject of new-ish releases, the new aphex twin release is bangin
January 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Shamefully I have not listened to much music that has come out on the last yr, I don’t trust the press lists, pls send me ur favourite recent music
January 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
moody cold wave etc mix I did for NARR radio a month ago:

on.soundcloud.com/6HyHKZGLayp1...
Crush Zone 29/11/24
Cal of Crush Zone Recordings returns to ride the NARRwaves to play an hour of sparse darkwave, moody minimal electronics, ethereal goth and danceable no wave for the freaks @crushzonerecordings @k.de
on.soundcloud.com
December 28, 2024 at 5:51 PM
I need to find more people to follow on here! Very done with the advert / rage bait riddled Facebook (and to a lesser extent on the ragebait at least instagram)
December 28, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Powerful demo earlier opposing the subjection of Roma and traveller communities at the hands of the GMP and the council, not just in Manchester but all over the country. Collective solidarity is the only way forward
November 27, 2024 at 12:52 AM
So much of my favourite art and music over the decades was only made possible because of the welfare state. If it wasn’t for UC and PIP there’s no chance in hell I’d ever be able to do anything creative. I’d probably be freezing to death on the street.
November 26, 2024 at 2:07 AM
My lovely partners amazing (no nepotism, genuinely) band Leucotome is in this month’s Crack magazine! Thanks to the TyF ladies for the shoutout. I recorded the demo (with our pal Gary) and it’ll be coming out on Crush Zone Recordings’ Bandcamp on cassette digital in the coming weeks
November 21, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Then I’m teaming up with Klang! to put on this banger in Manchester - members of guttersnipe, objections, gullet obvs, handle & historically fucked on the 6th of December

you can buy tickets here:

ra.co/events/2044087
November 21, 2024 at 8:57 PM