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June 2025

The Wrong Shoes
The Story of the Earlies first Glastonbury Appearance
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My First Gig
My first ever gig has been on my mind this week, it’s probably as good a time as any to drop it here.
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Our Prayers
I’ve said a few times that I don’t want this to turn into a weekly obituary round up but it’s impossible not to pause for thought when two characters of…
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Wychwood and the Hitman
Doves were playing at Wychwood Festival in Cheltenham last weekend, obviously it was lurking in my own diary until my year changed drastically which…
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May 2025

An Elephant
There’s an elephant in the room.
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Covers School
I’ve mentioned before how modest our ambitions were as teenagers, everything we understood was within Burnley and we had no further horizons.
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The Secret Broadcasts
Rob Shaw was asking me about the Secret Broadcasts the other week and after finding where they all are I forgot to get back to him with the info.
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UTB versus the Oxford
In Fight Club Tyler Duerden asks “How much can you know about yourself, if you’ve never been in a fight?” By that logic everybody in Burnley must know a…
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Trust Me...
One of the times the Earlies were flying back from America there was a problem with the plane which led to a delayed takeoff.
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April 2025

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