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Cops & RobbersA free guide to DIY gigs in Leeds and Bradford

February 2015

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Hello, welcome to the first Cops and Robbers of 2015. A nice full

issue this month. Please cast your eyes to the 26th of February

to find our next C&R gig, this time were collaborating with Fuse

Art Space in Bradford to bring you Design A Wave, Wilt Wagner

and more. Its a free gig to boot.

Thanks to Lizzie Donegan for this months artwork, check out

more of her stuff at lizzie-donegan.tumblr.com

Cheers for reading, here are the gigs...

Wednesday February 4th

Fuse Art Space, 5-7 RawsonPlace, Bradford

8pm, free entry

Trans/Human

Employing several noise makers

and techniques, including mobilephones, radio, cassette tape,

prepared electric guitar, processed

drums, strobe lighting, contact micro-

phones, field recordings and feedback systems, Trans/Human

explore the physicality of music making and its relationship to

environment and audience.Birchall/Saso

Manchester/Madrid duo featuring recent resident of Man-

chesters fantastic PENTHOUSE institute David Birchall (Guitar

& Objects) and Javier Saso (Obsolete machines and metals).

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Friday February 6th

Wharf Chambers, 23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds

7.30pm, 2 for members and their guests

City Yelps

A supergroup of sorts, featuring members of Downdime and The

Real Losers, City Yelps channel a primal yet elegantly refined

post-punk sound that conjures up images of a disgruntled

Martin Hannett shaping icy cold sounds from a mixing desk in

the shadows. Their debut album, Cheap Psych presents a col-

lection of stripped down pop numbers that, rather than harkingback to the sixties garage sounds that the title might suggest,

are wintery sounding vignettes inscribed with a delightfully cold

urbanity.

Danopposite

Inhabiting a no-mans land somewhere between the lyrical flow

of Sage Francis and the prog-hop sampledelica of Paul White,danopposite is the vehicle with which Daniel Hearn and Matt

Robson realise their off-kilter hip-hop fantasies.

Amy Hearn & Matt Robson

The debut of Amy Hearns disarmingly sweet and helium tinged

voice, she is backed on production by LS6 stalwart Matt Robson

(randomNumber/Ailsa Craig/Blanche Hudson Weekend etc).Songs about the baffling experience of love and existence in

late capitalist society.

Wharf Chambers is a members club and you need to be a

member, or guest of a member, in order to attend. To join,

please visit wharfchambers.org. Membership costs 1 and

requires a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.

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Tuesday February 7th

Temple Of Boom Leeds, Millwright Street, Leeds

7.30pm, 3.50

Superlifer Presents An Evening of Melodic Hardcore, Punk Rock,

EMO and Garage Rock and Roll

Jaded Eyes

Ripping DC style Adult Oriented Hardcore!

Young Conservatives

Not Young, Not Conservatives - SST/Dischord style Melodic

Punk Rock! Members of the The Horror, Matadors,Imbalance and That Fucking Tank.

Track and Field

Emo Indie Rock All Stars!

The X-Ray Eyes

Super Tight Garage Punk

with Killer InfectiousHooks! Feat.

members of the

Cyanide Pills

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8pm, 6 / 4 for members and their guests

Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp

OTPMD are an impossibly crazy endeavour. They took a

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302861 clown and violinist, free jazz double bass and trombone,

a punk guitarist, and Dog Faced Hermans old drummer Wilf

Plum, and turned them into an afrobeat band. Sort of. Their gigs

are beautiful, suave, dancing affairs, equal parts Swiss art-punkand West African rhythmic drive. Joy is the point.

Howie Reeve

Ex of Glasgow marvels Tattie Toes, is on the road as a solo act

these days. Super stripped down, its just him and his weirdly

tuned acoustic bass guitar, playing beautifully crafted songs

influenced by De Kift, The Ex and Mike Watt. Its that end ofthings, but very much his own conception.

Nut Club

A trio from Leeds, born out of a love for, and disillusionment

with Jazz, as much of it is practised in the U.K. They feature

members of Shatners Bassoon and Solanki, and they pretty

much sound like a cross between those two bands - theminutemen, New Orleans funk, and free jazz are the three

points holding them up.

Wharf Chambers Co-operative Club is a members club, and

you need to be a member, or a guest of a member, in order to

attend. To join, please visit wharfchambers.org. Membership

costs 1 and requires a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.

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Friday February 13th


8pm - 2am, 6 / 5 (advance online) for members and

their guests, see previous for details

Tramp presents

Piano Wire

Piano Wire have only played about 6 gigs together, but already

theyve stuck out like a sore thumb as a special band to keep

your eye on; a phoenix rising from the ashes of the Eighties

Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Andy Huxley and Sym Gharials newbands second track is a tight,

memorable pop song

that shines with

influence from the

likes of the US

eighties indie rockscene.

Plus:

The Treated,

Hilary and the

Hate Crimes &

Meriel Malone

Special af ter-show

(Guys and) Galen-

tines disco with

Tom Pullan and Laura

Dolores.

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Sunday February 15th


7.30pm, 4 for members and their guests, see

previous for details

Ark Noise Bookings presents

Ten

Ten is the name given to the musical recordings made by

Dominic Deane. Ten is a mixture of ambient, instrumental,

and electronica sounds. His sound combines electronic keys,

shoegaze noise and percussion to create a beautiful sound-scape that moves from slow, eery and melancholic to pulsating

and optimistic.

Glottalstop

Glottalstop is Oli Barrett (Petrels) who released debut album

Woodsmoke on Tartaruga Records earlier this year. Sourced

almost entirely from a collection of tape recordings dating back20 years, the two long-form tracks that make up this LP are an

exercise in slowbuild tension, unsettling claustrophobia, and

dense textural collage.

Max Bondi

Max Bondi is an electronic musician and owner/founder of

Tartaruga Records.Laid Eyes

Laid Eyes is a video artist and film maker currently living in

South London. With a background in visual anthropology, he is

currently drawn to making digital video works exploring mostly

abstract forms. He has performed live improvised visuals for the

likes of Petrels, Talvihorros, Pascal Savy, Anji Cheung, BBBlood,

Embla Quickbeam and These Feathers Have Plumes.

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Monday February 16th


8pm, 5 for members and their guests. No-one will be

turned away due to lack of funds.

See other listings for WC membership details

Trust Fund

Awesome happy-sad noisy indie pop. Tour launch!

Joey Fourr

Weirdo songs from London-based band new album out soon

on Milk Records dont miss!Autobodies

Choppy, scratchy post-punk with the trebly riffs and the clipped

rhythms and the yelpy vocals. You know the type.

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Fuse Art Space, 5-7 Rawson Place, Bradford

8pm, free entry

Richard Dawson

Rising up from the bed of the River Tyne, a voice that

crumbles and soars, that is steeped in age-old balladry and

finely-chiseled observations of the everyday, Richard Dawson is

a skewed troubadour at once charming and abrasive. His sham-

bolically virtuosic guitar playing stumbles from music-hall tune-

smithery to spidery swatches of noise-colour, swathed in ampstatic teetering on the edge of feedback. His songs are both

chucklesome and tragic, rooted in a febrile imagination that

references worlds held dear and worlds unknown. New album

Nothing Important, out now on Domino/Weird World records,

hypnotises from its tender dark whispers to its wild screams, an

unparalleled voice in todays over-preened and manufacturedmusic world.

I have come to think of it as ritual community music. Perhaps

you could call that folk music, but it is certainly not in the folk

tradition. I hope it belongs to part of a wider tradition of north

east artists, people like Joseph Crawhall, Jack Common, Basil

Bunting, John Martin and Peter Beardsley. (Richard Dawson)Guttersnipe

Dual vocals / guitar / electronics / drums / flaming electro-

noisepunk warp-down duo, with members possibly recognizable

from Etai Keshiki and A Void in a Coma.

We also have Golden Cabinet DJs stoking the proverbial fire

before, in between and after the acts.

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Brudenell Social Club, 33 Queens Road, Leeds

8pm, 7

Austin Lucas

Serious Sam Barrett

Aaron Persinger

Austin Lucas makes his Leeds return, all the way from Blooming-

ton, Indiana. This time hes solo and acoustic, with support from

West Yorkshires Ramblin Rose, Serious Sam Barrett & Aaron

Persinger (of Reverend Peytons Big Damn Band). Serious altcountry and folk goodness.

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The Fenton, 161 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds

7.30pm, 3

Mush

We will be seeing Mushs new line up for the first time - their

sound will be augmented by alcohol and their attendance at the

Jesus and Mary Chain gig on the preceding night. It is likely that

their set will be interrupted by a marauding Ian Duncan Smith

high on crystal meth.

Maggie8will be sticking it to the man by levitating Leeds CivicHall. They will do this by channelling the collective spirits of the

1912 F.A. Cup final winning team of Barnsley F.C. Expect a bare

knuckle boxing match mid-set as Matt Flint takes things up

a notch.

Confused Objectivesare Back from their world tour. The

Objectives are the original inventors of punk and their musicshakes the ruling class to its very foundations. Make sure you

bring your best fighting gear because you should expect the riot

police (and probably the army) to be turning up. (Please note we

cannot guarantee the safety of lifestyle punks or fancy dress

punks at this event).

The ceremony will be overseen by BAFTA award winningnational celebrity Sean Morley. He will be delivering a sermon

about the revolutionary ideas of President Jimmy Carter and

breathing fire through a small tube.

All profits will go to Yorkshire CND. Bring everyone you know

and get them to bring everyone they know etc. See you down on

the barricades....

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Thursday February 19th

Temple Of Boom Leeds, Millwright Street, Leeds

7pm, 6

Harda Tider

Swedens finest set to rip it up

in the UK again Raging

Hardcore Punk, think early

Cro Mags covering Anti

Cimex. Do not miss!

ObstructBoston 82 meets UK82,

Discharge with mosh parts.

Damaged Head

Ex/current Heratys/Nitad/Institu-

tion First time in the UK. Think

early 80s fast cali HC coveringTotalitar Raging!

Mother Culture

Awesome new nasty HC punk

from Harrogate/Leeds ex

Valhalla Pacifists playing a

Perspex Flesh/Dead Kennedysvibe. They rip!

Rob & Natas

First time playing in Leeds

Great tuneful garage punk from

Sheffield.

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Caroline Social Club, Caroline Street, Saltaire,

Bradford

7.30pm, 4.50 / 3.50 (advance online)

Pleasure Grounds Present

Flash Bang Band

3 man lift-up psychpop unit from Brighton. Heavy but Happy!

The Orielles

Aitch-Faxers mix Shangri -la weep into your pillow melody with

surf scratch and skew.Bearfoot Beware

Hitting the marks with 1) Speed, 2) Dexterity, 3) Energy

Bearfoot Beware are characterised as much by tough, tight

playing as by their deliciously devious songwriting. Wall-of-

sound energy, sly intelligence and subversive arrangements

keep the musical surprises coming. Whats not to like?(Tom Robinson).

Otti Albietz And The Voices

Superlative BBE Music signing - Composer, Songwriter and

Arranger-wulf..... and band.

One face and sound from Social Schemata, DJ Verd willintermish and intermash between bands.

Advance tickets available from Jumbo Records and

RADstudio Saltaire.

Easy peasy from Leeds and Bradford on the train or bus.

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8pm, 4 for members and their guests, see previous

for details

Spoonboy

Patriarchy-smashing defiant activist from Washington D.C,

as well as singer/songwriter of The Max Levine Ensemble,

Spoonboy has toured the World over the past decade spreading

his intelligent and inspiring acoustic punk word.

ONSINDONSIND are a political pop group of great conscience and

harmony from Pity Me. They have released music through

Discount Horse,

Plan-It-X Records,

toured the US,

and last Summerplayed Glaston-

bury at the request

of Billy Bragg.

JAHJF

Playing as Baby

Jesus, the acousticincarnation of

JAHJF. Playing the

classic queer pop

punk anthems plus

very NEW stuff.

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Santiago Bar, 1-3 Grand Arcade, Leeds

7.30pm, 5 / 3 (advance online)

((OHHMS))

Freshly added to the ever expanding Holy Roar roster, Ohhms

bring the epic riff to their veritable palette. They fuse together

elements of doom, post-metal, prog and psychedelia in

stunning clarity and power. This is nuanced, controlled anger

that knows when to lurk in dark recesses, and when to viscer -

ally bare its teeth.Old Man Lizard

Big Spaceship favourites OML are back in Leeds to give us

their acid tinged stoner ballads of nature jaunts, roadkill and

David Attenborough. Their last visit saw them support Black-

listers at the Packhorse, safe to say they absolutely smashed

it. Dont miss these guys, for a 3-piece, they rock harder thanHarvey Milk with grooves smoother than Neil Youngs prose

on a Whiskey binge.

Cattle

Two drums, one basses, one vocals. Psychedelic Sludge

from Leeds.

EagleburnerTravelling with OML, all the way from Hampshire, we have

Eagleburner. Mixing the intensity of Unsane with the noise

of early Amrep bands, Eagleburner emit a kind of rock music

unlike any other. Multi-layered, expansive and undeniably

heavy. Kind of like if Qui had a bassist and then got the guy

from Moloch to sing.

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8.30pm, 5 for members and their guests, see


Stargaze Presents.

The Brackish

The Brackish are a thrillingly unique instrumental band formed

in 2013, featuring alumni of This is the Kit, Zun Zun Egui, The

Liftmen and Marc Ford Band. At the core of the music are tight

arrangements combined with improvisation, featuring interplaybetween two distinctive guitar voices. Some bands dont need

vocals to say what they mean and The Brackish is one of them.

The broad vocabulary of the music psychedelic, metal, jazz,

kraut all kinds of echoes from Steve Reich to Sabbath, Can

and Tortoise.

Blood SportBlood Sport is Nick, Sam, and Alex. Their self-styled aggrobeat is

a mesmerising live soundscape of weaving, intertwining guitars,

analog drum machines, barking voice, and super-polyrhythmic

drums. To see them live is to be hypnotised into joining a mass

dance ritual, with an organic, non-stop, crescendoing musical

narrative.NOPE

To watch Nope is to play the part of one of Kubrick s early

hominids from 2001: A Space Odyssey. They sleep overnight in

a small exposed rock crater, and awake to find a black monolith

has appeared in front of them. They approach it shrieking and

jumping, and eventually touch it cautiously.

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Sunday February 22nd

The Kirkgate Centre, Shipley, Bradford

7pm, 8.50 / 7 (advance online)

Charles Hayward presents Anonymous Bash

Golden Cabinet is ecstatic to be involved in this Anonymous

Bash is a record that was conceived, recorded and produced

at Islington Mill as part of the first Samarbeta music residency

program that features Charles Hayward of the seminal 70s

experimental rock band This Heat. Further aural accompani-

ment comes courtesy from members of Gnod, Part Wild Horses,Mane On Both Sides, Naked On Drugs, Locean, Terminal

Cheesecake and 2 Koi Karp. On this brief and short tour, the

band will be performing tightly structured dub workouts that

are anchored on deep bass with Haywards taut and propul-

sive percussion work. There is a real sense of danger in these

re-constructed songs - from sudden dips in rhythm to the jarringuse of synthetic textures, disquieting violin tones and gnarled

guitar freak-outs.

The Family Elan

Joining us on this highly epic journey will be The Family Elan

whose unique take of blending mind warping folk, psychedelic

trips and eastern influenced music mantras will be the perfectwarm up and entree for this evenings soiree.

DJ Cataclyst (DJ set)

Sonic depravity on the wheels of steel.

Tickets will be at Jumbo records, online and in-store and at

Saltaire Bookshop. Bands finish in time for last trains.

Plus: Merch tables and Cheap bar selling locally brewed real

ales and homemade vegan cake.

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Sunday February 22nd

The Fenton, 161 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds

4pm, 4

Angurosakuson Presents: Madinee Mattness!

McWatt

If you imagine the MUSICAL LOVE CHILD of minimalism and

chamber music! Sarah McWatt (flute & accordion) + Seth (double

bass and accordion). A Wire review notes: I assume they work

on pieces together. And something with the word Judicious.

Either way itll be a mellow thoughtful post-amble to a hecticclatter of bands.

Marlo Eggplant

If you imagine the MUSICAL LOVE CHILD of Helm and an

octopus, Marlo isnt really anything like the above love child.

Two arms, more like Marlo. Marlo is a ruckuss noise maker and

the source is string metal strings on an instrument with strings.Marlos now writing for the Radio Free Midwich blog!

Melting

Kindly TAKE THE LIBERTY OF imagining the MUSICAL LOVE

CHILD of Grim (errr, grime but gimme grim!) and 2-Step then

you have a chaos magik witch beats ritual for you. Daria

Ramone serves it up in a spikey and somewhat droney manner.Inverted Nepal

If you imagine the lovechild of Incapacitants and a Harsh Noise

Wall and then knock it down and then type it up using lazy

music journalistic cliches, you have to ask yourself, how does a

wall make love to a Japanese banker? Unvented Nubiles, as they

arent called, are Pete Cann and Paul Walsh, in other words, the

lad and dad of the Yorkshire noise scene (Idwal Fisher).

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The Library, 229 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds

7.30pm, 6 / 5 (advance online)

Monolord

Formed in 2013, this band is made up of Swedish rockers

Thomas Jger, Esben Willems, and Mika Hkki. Both Jger and

Willems were in the Swedish boogie rock band Marulk and

started Monolord as a side project as a way to play some more

heavier tunes, they quickly added Hkki (from The Grifters, Don

Darlings, ex Rotten Sound) and realized that they had somethingvery special between the 3 of them.

Salems Pot

Following in the footsteps of the sprawling and self-indul-

gent jam albums of the early 1970s. Heavy swirling psych

summoning the writhing sounds of demon fuzz, distant death

knells and lo-fi garage metal riffs. Salems Pot peddle thedarkest of doom.

Bong Cauldron

Since their formation in 2011, Bong Cauldron have developed

a reputation on the local Leeds metal scene as a sleeping

colossus. A beast that only ever awakens from its slumber

when called upon to thrash out a cacophonous amalgamationof torturous sludge metal, old school thrash-pit discord and

homegrown haze.

GROAK

Brand new Leeds doom outfit made up of ex/current members

of Wiht, Khuda, Suffering Mind, The Day Man Lost, Wizards

Beard, Cattle and a bunch more. Pessimistic, bleak and slow.

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Fuse Art Space, 5-7 Rawson Place, Bradford

8pm, free entry

Cops and Robbers, Fuse & The Incorrigible Esterhazy present

Design A Wave

Experiments in analogue synthesis radiate exotic beams through

a warm acid fog, creating a close atmosphere in which Radio-

phonic tinkering, Motorik ambience, cosmic disco and mutant

Tropiclia drifts and drizzles onto tilted dancefloors where

perspiring contortionists slip and slide off the edges. Recordsout on Alter, Rush Hours sibling No Label and most recently

Alien Jams.

Wilt Wagner

Stripped-back slices of polyphonic incoherence from the unparal-

leled master of Balloon Funk, poignantly highlighting the stark

interzone of the elliptical Venn that overlaps the fevered mindand the Casio preset.

Survival Skills

A wheezing, dislocated variant of House music lies prone,

burbling muffled passages of disembodied melody and droning

ambience into the temporal pillowcase. Heavily-misted composi-

tions reminiscent of the dreamiest releases on labels like OpalTapes and The Trilogy Tapes.

Mia Lametta

Nascent outing for a new solo project that boasts one of the

idea-logged minds of Beards and Ygrec. A syncopated chain of

drum machine, keyboard, guitar and a harmony of voice will be

orchestrated and moulded into the fractal framework of a pop

song constructed by degrees.

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8pm, 5 / 4 for members and their guests, see


Pisschrist Presents

The Ceramic Hobs

Psychiatric seaside noise-punk.

The Bongoleeros

Dirt racket troubadours.

Core of the CoalmanViola based vibrations via ecstatic electrics.

Panelak

Well-thumbed full-moon din-improv

harmonies.

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Saturday March 7th


3pm, 5 for members and their guests, see previous

for details

Crater Lake Festival

Evil Moisture- Andy Bolus (Evil Moisture) has worked since the

early 90s with chaotic circuits, magnetic tape and electronics to

produce a kind of low-fi musique concrete.

Rudolf Eb.er- aka Runzelstirn & Gurgelstck founded the

Schimpfluch extreme and outsider artist collective in Zrich in

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1987. Confrontational, physically demanding performances and

shock treatments remove the boundaries of the body and open

up accesses to the collective unconscious.

Culver- Long running solo project of Newcastle based artist

Lee Stokoe making dense and ominous drones, always executed

with great skill and care.

Stephen Cornford- Reconfiguring consumer audio electron-

ics, re-imagining their functionality, defying their obsolescence.

Charles Dexter Ward- Heldon-esque prog workouts laden

with pulsating synth swells and very effective guitar lines.

Dylan Nyoukis & Kieron Piercy - Tape/voice manglingveteran Dylan Nyoukis (Prick Decay, Blood Stereo) and Kieron

Piercy of experimental trio Spoils & Relics.

Dale Cornish- No Bra (20046): co-wrote unexpected hit

Munchausen. Terse humour and observations/worldly interests

further evident with work of ecstatic noise trio Baraclough

(2006), Current focus is on solo and collaborative works andperformances.

Kay Hill- Project of Nottingham resident Benjamin Hallatt,

Minimal, highly disciplined and detailed analogue textures.

Stuart Chalmers- Bristol based cassette tape manipulator

and electronics improviser.

Yol & Posset- Hullensian scrape and shout man Yol joinsforces with Newcastle based dictaphone gurgler Joe Murray.

Mel O Dubshlaine- Ten year career based in noise, impro-

vised, experimental and psychedelic rock. An overriding theme

of her solo work is using unusual instrumentation to extend

human expressive capabilities and give voice to previously

unheard sounds.

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Do It Yourself

The gigs in Cops and Robbers are organised in a DIY fashion,

meaning that they are motivated by a love of music and self-

organised activity. They do not exist to make a profit for anyone

involved or function as a foot on the ladder or exposure for

promoters or bands. This generally makes these gigs more

enjoyable, cheaper to attend and more inclusive.

You can pick up Cops and Robbers every month at Wharf

Chambers, The Brudenell Social Club, Jumbo and Crash

Records as well as at many of the gigs listed herein.

To list your gigs or if youd like to get involved with helping to

run C&R (illustrating an issue, organising benefit gigs etc.)

please go to: www.copsandrobbers.net

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