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A Witness: Threaphurst Lane Simon Goddard They were so integral to weekday evenings in 1986 sandwiched between Bogshed and Stump on night-time Radio 1 that even listening to A Witness today one still expects Peel's voice to crop up as each track fades.
Nostalgia aside, this is a splendid memory-jogger of the near-classic I Am John's Pancreas and a repertoire which, with titles like "Nodding Dog Moustache" drew inevitable stylistic and ideological comparisons with The Fall. Never fully realising their potential beyond a much-loved Eighties cult (tragically guitarist Rick Aitken died in an accident in 1989) this is an epitaph of which to be proud.
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