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This
website has sat for a while, simply existing as a sort of online
archive. Well as of this morning, there is news! 'Strictly Confidential
- Lost & Found 181-1985' will be released on CD and at all your
favourite download sites sometime in July 2025. I've remastered all the
tracks, so they sound big and fresh, and surprisingly contemporary. The
physical CD will be available on the band's own Contrast label via
Bandcamp, and the album will be available for streaming and/or purchase
on all the usual iTunes/Spotify etc.
Accordingly, i've taken down the soundfiles that were here, as the new
ones sound much better, and are a better representation of how we were.
For the time being you can't hear us, tho there are some songs on the
Bandcamp site here. Over the next few weeks we'll be working on an expanded history of Personal Column to tie in with the release.
phil hargreaves
Liverpool, June 2025
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I remember reading
somewhere, one of those stupid surveys that you read, that some
horrifyingly large proportion of men (50%? something like that)
believed that they'd already met and lost the love of their lives.
Which must be nice for their partners. I'm not aware that any of the
members of Personal Column are pining for lost loves, but for us it was
a band that we loved and lost, a moment when everything seemed like it
was going to be alright, that time when the celestial DJ was spinning
our request.
As you're probably aware, it didn't quite go to plan, and the music
business ate us up and spat us out in gooey little lumps. Last year i
was looking at the cassettes of the things we did, and it occurred to
me that if we did nothing they'd degenerate till they were unplayable,
and then it all would be like it had never happened. So this is our
record, our mark on the wall to say that we were there. If you listen
to and like any of the songs, drop us an email, or if you played on any
of them, it would be fun to get back in touch.
phil hargreaves
Liverpool, May 2006
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