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November 06 - issue 2

Dearly Bewildered

These are the times that try men's souls. It's early in the morning (there's much to do before Matins) and as I type I can hear the Curate in the other room listening to the cricket on the wireless, occasionally letting out a sigh of profound depression. From to time he tries to put an optimistic gloss on the score, like the Black Knight in the Monty Python film who says "it's just a flesh wound" when it's clear his arm has just been cut off. But then reality reasserts itself.

WHO WERE THE UNKNOWN SOLDIERS/3?

a - The Raincoats

b - Mudhoney

c - 13th Floor Elevators

d - The Lurkers

e - Dawn Penn

f - Atomic Rooster

g - King Tubby

h - Fiction Factory

i - Glass Tiger

j - Klaus Nomi (sans make-up)

k - Meat Puppets

l - The Triffids

m - Ann Peebles

n - Icehouse

o - Sex Gang Children

p - Edgar Broughton band

q - Pebbles

r - Henry Cow

s - Stryper

t - Glen Medeiros

u - Oran 'Juice' Jones

v - Pilot

w - Strawberry Alarm Clock

y - Shriekback

z - The Mighty Diamonds

THEATRE VISIT

We've had to cancel plans for a parish trip to New York to see Bob Dylan's musical "The Times They Are A Changin'" owing to the fact that it's closed after a handful of performances and reviews that are described as "mixed".

GREAT LOST CHRISTMAS RECORDS

It's a parish tradition that we accompany the mixing of the Christmas cake with a few favourite yuletide pop tunes. This year we're delighted to see that our friends at Word magazine have included Davitt Sigerson's masterful 1981 Christmas obscurity "It's A Big Country" on their new cover CD. What are the other great alternative Christmas hits? Over to you.

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