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Personal
Column were a Liverpool band, functioning from 1980-1986 (emerging
somewhere between the Crucial Three and Frankie in the chronology of
Liverpool bands), based around
the songwriting of Marc Vormawah and Colin Brown. Big favourites of
John Peel, they did three sessions for his show, as well as sessions
for Kid Jenson and Simon Bates. There
were records as well: two singles on the band's own Contrast label, and
one on Stiff. This website is the online document of the band's career,
and is, in a sense, the Personal Column album that never was. |
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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