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Party Like It's Calder Vale
New Year's Eve used to really be something in Burnley but the Millennium completely killed it off.
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104 and a Merry Christmas
Let’s not kick the BBC when they’re down, we all love them and we especially don’t like foreign despots threatening them.
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In the Land of Ice and Snow
Somehow on our way to San Francisco we had another tyre blowout, picture above for you by the ever vigilant Nicky Madden.
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In The Land of Opportunity (Part 2)
When we’d had the tyre blowout in Mississippi we’d been near a petrol station (they call them gas stations but don’t be fooled, they sell petrol) and…
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To Be Included
I think I’ll need to take a week off from regaling you with tales of the Earlies bleak and mildly triumphant jaunt around America twenty years ago.
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In The Land of Opportunity (Part 1)
Secretly Canadian were a small independent label so they were only ever going to be able to contribute a couple of thousand dollars.
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The AVO Sessions
It took a long time for These Were The Earlies to filter out to the other territories around the globe.
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Christian Madden
Thoughts, recommendations and fading memories of a life in music. Sent to you on a Saturday morning.
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The Ruffian
The Ruffian
Ian Leslie
VIBES
VIBES
Starlite & Campbell
Emma-Lee’s Substack
Emma-Lee’s Substack
Emma-Lee Moss
Front Row & Backstage
Front Row & Backstage
Brad Kyle
A Fan's Notes, by Nick Hornby
A Fan's Notes, by Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby

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