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Games To Avoid

Contains 1 performance.

Early '80s synth band from Southampton. Frontman Simon Vincent (gtr, vc) also played in the latterly better-known Stitched-Back Foot Airman ('The worst name that I've ever heard for a band' - John Peel), initially as a side-project.

  • Bob Cobbing & Clive Fencott, Mark Miwurdz, Chris Cardale, Games To Avoid

    Bob Cobbing & Clive Fencott, Mark Miwurdz, Chris Cardale, Games To Avoid

    23 April 1983 at 
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