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Artist	Title	Album	New
Midiron Blast Shaft	Red Rocket	Red Rocket/Thirteen Hours Smarter 7"
Midiron Blast Shaft	Thirteen Hours Smarter	Red Rocket/Thirteen Hours Smarter 7"
Unknown	I Should Have Never Left Kensington	Dag Tape
Unknown	Lost In The Crowd	Dag Tape
Zed	What The Fuck	Split w Burn The Priest
His Hero Is Gone	Side 2	The Dead of Night in Eight Movements
Teen Cthulhu	Shadows Over Antarctica	When Flesh Becomes Scabbard
Pressgang	Side 1	Self Destroyed
Ink & Dagger	13th Dream	Philly Shreds Volume 1
The Pack	King of Kings	Anthology
The Pack	Abattoir	Anthology
Folk Devils	Chewing The Flesh	Hank Turns Blue
The Town Managers	Jackandfanta/Lobsterman	s/t 7"
Miss Pussycat	Double Agent Sunbeam	Flossy and the Unicorns
Hawkwind	The Wizard Blew His Horn (w Michael Moorcock on vocals!)	Warrior on the Edge of Time
Hawkwind	Opa-Loka	Warrior on the Edge of Time
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic	Pulse Piece	Dawn of the Cycads	√
Serpent Throne	Satan Will Guide Us	Ride Satan Ride	√
Kitten Forever	Fat Crush	Born Ready	√
Kitten Forever	Baby Teeth	Born Ready	√
Kitten Forever	Nightworm	Born Ready	√
ART THE ONLY BAND IN THE WORLD	We're All Boat People	THE ONLY RECORD IN THE WORLD
Murder City Devils	Press Gang	In Name and Blood
Bad Tuna Experience	White Walls
The Monkey Run	I Want the Blood of a Civil Servent	I Want the Blood of a Civil Servent
Fugazi	Public Witness Program	Albini Sessions
Under Privileged Nation	Captain Planet	Second Hand Citizens Records
Wire	Circumspect	Object 47	√
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	Jack the Ripper (Acoustic)	B Sides and Rarities
Joe Jack Talcum	Alcohol	Photographs From the Shoebox	√
Hex 9	A song about Mary Poppins

In my post-radio show brainhaze I decided to see if I could find out anything about The Monkey Run, who were a pop/punk band from mid-80s Manchester. I remember not coming up with anything when I first pulled the 7" out of a dollar bin a few years ago. This time I found one of the members, Mark Hodkinson, who had this to say about his former band: "By now, we were enthralled by The Smiths and The Chameleons (for whom I've written album liner notes) and it bore little resemblance to the old stuff. We released two singles and an EP, supporting bands like The Stone Roses, The Chameleons and The Wedding Present. Our highpoint was recording a Radio One session." It's good stuff.

I sent him an e-mail telling him that his music was still getting radio airplay and included a link to my playlist. I got a response a few hours later, thanking me for playing the 7" and offering a copy of the CD anthology. He CC'd the rest of the band on the e-mail and I just got a second reply from a different member of the band, Jim Stringer:

I'm a bit emotional at the news.

In a week that's been quite difficult to navigate, this has made me very happy.

We were fckin' awesome.

I love you all - especially you, Yoni.

Jim

That's just so wonderful and sweet. Weeeee!