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Spiral Scratches:1978 (EP - Track Two)
They came on a Saturday night…and very quickly wished they hadn't, as the night time came and the streets they rang with the fears of a thousand…
Dec 12, 2025
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Spiral Scratches: 1978 (EP - Track One)
Judy Teen, the queen of the scene, is coming to slay yer, She took us on the carousel, She made us smile and oh, how we laughed...She made us happy!
Oct 23, 2025
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Reasons to be Cheerful: Robert Redford and The Sundance Kid
Radiantly beautiful, perhaps even too much so, and despite us knowing that he knew we knew just how beautiful he was, we still loved him. One of the…
Oct 9, 2025
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Spiral Scratches: 1976
Desolate dark satanic mills make for dark and desolate people, and Jerusalem is nowhere to be found among Lancashire's green and pleasant land. A land…
Aug 29, 2025
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Reasons to be Cheerful: Band Aid (Do They Know It's Christmas?)
Forty-one years ago, a rag-tag band of pop stars checked their egos at the door and urged us to help feed the world…which we did in our millions, and…
Aug 20, 2025
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Spiral Scratches: 1982
‘Go on…Gis a job…Go on…I can do that…Gis a go…Go on…’
Aug 5, 2025
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Spiral Scratches: 1972
When the future comes gliding over the present and a kids' kickabout in the park foretells a future yet to come and the first sign that the past is…
Aug 2, 2025
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Reasons to be Cheerful: The BBC
They offered me the office, offered me the shop, They said I'd better take anything they'd got, Do you wanna make tea at the BBC? - as suggested by Joe…
Jul 20, 2025
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