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Down the Pembury with arkady to meet up with maxcelcat and woosang. Woosang got a good pic of me. Freda held out for longer than expected and we had three rather nice pints of Bear Ass.

James Ray's Gangwar are really rather good. James Ray is an old Andrew Eldritch crony; Gangwar are what Sisters of Mercy would have sounded like had Eldritch not disappeared up his own nose. I'm amazed I'd pretty much never heard of them in Australia.

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[blackgrrr.livejournal.com]

don't think that much

The Gangwar 12" aren't on vinyl as far as I know, and I suspect much of the Performance scraps were.

I have "A New Kind of Assassin". It's all kinds of great, but it's far from a comprehensive collection of his tunes, and it also lacks a song called "A New Kind of Assassin" which, if memory serves, is most easily available on Mercer's first collection.

My memory could be faulty.

[steer.livejournal.com]

A new kind of assassin the song (not the album) was a b side on one of the early Performance 12" (I think I have it somewhere) and you're right that there was no CD release of it.