The mighty Cock Batteth; Anjie Mosher on drums (and rude hat), Roger Ramjet on bass (token male), Natalie Bear on guitar & vocals, here seen trying to hide under my anarchy t-shirt, in spite of being the pretty one (sorry, Roger), caught on the bill with Dead Pollys and 999 at The Continental, Preston.

10. Cock Batteth - Soul Digger

And finally, back to the present, where we close the original show with this fun loving Blackpool punk trio performing a track from their "Bog Standard" EP (that's what it's called, I'm not being insulting, promise) live in Nine Backward. They rock...

https://cockbatteth.bandcamp.com/album/bog-standard-3

And talking of Dead Pollys (under the photos at the top, keep up), Juba Nurmeniemmi is back on the show tonight with Pseudo Sun, veteran Swedish space rockers from the glory days of Music & Elsewhere, and here's a nice shiny photo of me and him at The Continental gig. They let me run the merch stall, which was very brave of them, though my kleptomania is under better control these days. So long as I remember to take my meds. I did nick a badge though...

Also on tonight's show are New Zero God, fronted by former Flowers Of Romance singer and host of The Blackout Radio Show, Mike Pougounas. The band had an album on M&E and Mike was always a keen networker in those cassette culture days, so we were always going to get together should he head our way from Piraeus in Athens. The picture above left here is a bit of a blast from the past; summer of 1995, the band were over here doing something with Wayne Hussey, so Sam and I went up (we lived in the south east in those days) to Shepherd's Bush (south west London) to meet up with him. Having already got me extremely drunk on ouzo before it was dark, we retired to a pub on the corner of the green for the evening to continue drinking. How I stood up long enough to take this photo I honestly don't know. Maybe Sam took it and I'm laying comatose on the floor out of frame, who knows? So, two guys to the left I seem to recall were from Vendemmian, then there's the bloke from Wipe Out Records in Greece, then Mike on the right. Great night. For those concerned about road safety, Sam drove home. Amazingly, I managed to direct her all the way, 30 miles plus. Don't remember a thing about it. The kebab was nice though...

And no less than three bands on the show from the Bats In Attic gothfest we went to (courtesy of Niklas Carlsson, thank you!) at The Alhambra in Morecambe back in September. Backstage posers - left to right: that's meself with the Darklord himself, Trevor Bamford of Chaos Bleak and Nightbreed Records; then there's our Sam sat in between Atreyo and Nik of Dark Side Cowboys; and finally our Twizz (who prefers to be called Jaxx now, they grow up so fast) in a dead cool snap with Holly from Social Youth Cult. As ever, my thanks to all the artistes who contributed to making the show what it is, an aural experience for people who should know better...

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