(review by neil crud, pix by dekkers)
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(review n pix by neil crud)

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(review n pix neil crud)
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There was this new lad who turned up at a place I used to work. He’d got a job on the shop floor like the rest of us, which was unusual cos most new employees started off in the warehouse and would be promoted to the shop floor after he’d served his time and if he was any good. None of us liked him; he was cock sure of himself and we didn’t like the fact that he was earning the same money as us when he was still wet behind the ears.

‘How come he can walk into this job, when we had to slog it in the back there to get here today?’ We’d cry.
The same lad went onto to become an area manager for the same company within a very short space of time. We still didn’t like him, but it was more through envy than anything else.

Sound familiar?
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Duncan Black: “The Ubiquitous Guitar Mercenary” JUDMUSIC-CD001
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(review by mwj)
The last time I visited this hallowed ground was over a decade ago to see Vaffan Coulo supporting Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, only to be told by a pissed up Trifle as part of his general abuse at the crowd that “if you’re not from Bangor what the fuck you doing here?”. Naturally I took it to heart and have shunned the place since only calling a truce to my grudge for this evening’s obscure entertainment. Echoes of the Banquent Ethania diverse mix, again with Mr Black’s presence at the scene of the crime, some-one should put two and two together.
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Duncan Black records University compositions submitted coursework at MMU
Duncan Black – MMU recital live concert June 1996
Pod – record demo June 1996

05.06.1996 – Mansun play the Tiv, Buckley
05.06.1996 – Ectogram, Llwybr Llaethog & Rheinallt H. Rowlands play Water Rats, London
12.06.1996 – Pineapple play support to Real People at Tiv, Buckley
19.06.1996 – Compulsion, Housefly play the Tiv, Buckley

Duncan Black says, ‘I remember the journalist who was taking photographs asked Chris Chewbacca to light up a fag and blow smoke into the air before he took the shot. I think we are all sat on-stage in the curved lounge at the Student’s Union (now demolished). In these days of smoking bans & health campaigns, that smoke cloud now looks like an amp has gone ‘POP!’ or Chris has let off a particularly violent fart.’