Your gig list on the blog must be a great memory aid. I' m down to ticket stubs(not always available but check out what Tim Burgess recently posted on making your own!) and time addled memory. However , there was my awful photos at gigs phase so I ll sign off with these. Thanks for the original post

It's a great little remnant of a time with a lovely side 2.

Sorry, late to the party but I did take this in a different life.

Great single. Mine came with a live flexi of one of my favorites by them. Got to say your earlier post featured quite the underrated classic. Have a good day.

Today seems like a good day to post some facts and then to accompany them with a point of view.

I have the Shop Assistants album and that single. For me they were the absolute epitome of the C86 whatchamacallit. They wrote catchy simple songs often hiding glorious guitar lines. When I saw them live they cruised along beautifully.
Promoter thought they were an alternative cabaret act though!

"You set 'em up - I ll knock 'em down!"

I was taken by my Mam to see Santa at Shepard's of Gateshead in the early 70s...if I had been around 10 years earlier, she could have taken me with her to see the popular beat combo on your record at Sunderland Empire. I Love local shop record sleeves.

First Run of 2025 done. COLD.

Delegation
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7 early songs on the Run Playlist. Dub kicks in as initial early enthusiasm wanes.

Sometimes you ve just got to sit back and wonder at the Cosmos

Whistler, actually Blackcomb mountain. Expensive Lift pass, reasonably priced beer, some lovely people and actually quite nice conditions. #whistler

Emily Carr would have painted this storm or described it in beautiful prose.