The Mechanisms
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Roving band of space pirates. We sing stories and shoot witnesses.
The Starship Aurora
Joined September 2011
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The Mechanisms are dead, long live The Mechanisms! Curious about our solo projects?
#TheMechanisms
#DeathToTheMechanisms
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Stowaways, we're happy to announce that Death To The Mechanisms, Frankenstein, and Tales To Be Told vol. 1 will all be making their way to Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes etc over the next few days!
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Mechanisms history! 10 years ago, yesterday (Marius was ill, don’t @ us!):
Once Upon a Time (in Space) was released on Bandcamp and as a shiny CD!
Plus, on the same day, the crew ran their first ever Edinburgh Fringe show, at WhyNot?, the first of many!
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The wait’s over - Death To The Mechanisms, Frankenstein and Tales vol 1 are on Spotify and Apple Music!
For anyone waiting on this, there’s a minor (and boring) snag with our distributor. Music is still on its way, it’s just going to be a little longer than we first expected!
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People ask us for permission to create adaptations and projects based on our work fairly often, so for future reference, here’s a 🧵 explaining what’s ok to do, what’s not ok to do, and why.
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Tim?! Some of the damn stowaways are *dating* now. This is why we can’t have nice things!
Me and my gf met online because of TMA, but the first time we ever met in person was at the Death To The Mechanisms concert in Jan 2020. This week, over two years later, we finally moved in together, and our various Mechs posters are finally all together 💛
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10 years ago today…Raphaella La Cognizi and Marius von Raum play their first official gig with The Mechanisms at (Space)Port Mahon!
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Death to the Mechanisms: the live album is out now! Find it on Bandcamp:
#deathtothemechanisms
#themechanisms
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Stowaways! How have you been.
First up: We’ll be opening CDs for sale again. This time with some advance warning:
1st November, 7pm UK time.
Same place as usual:
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Stowaways! Two things:
First thing: As promised, we’re done with the last batch. New batch will be open at 7pm, UK time, on the 29th November:
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For anyone waiting on this, there’s a minor (and boring) snag with our distributor. Music is still on its way, it’s just going to be a little longer than we first expected!
Stowaways, we're happy to announce that Death To The Mechanisms, Frankenstein, and Tales To Be Told vol. 1 will all be making their way to Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes etc over the next few days!
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Hello, stowaways. Long time no see.
A little update: CDs (& posters) are back:
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It looks like Youtube has lost all but the last few minutes of the stream - don't worry, we have footage, it will just take a little while to get it to you. We'll aim to get the livestream version up soon, and the multicam will likely be a few weeks.
#DeathToTheMechanisms
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I'm not going to reply to everyone, but yeah, these were gone by the time I *refreshed* after releasing the stock and tweeting.
I remain convinced we need to rethink how we're getting these into your hands, but I'll see how things look on that next year.
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Stowaways - we've had a few messages asking about restocking CDs on our Bandcamp store - so rather than reply to all your questions individually, here's a post for anyone who wants to know!
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Hey - y'all went feral, which is _great_, assuming we've not fucked up postage or VAT stuff.
We've shut down any stock for now; there's more left, but we're not going to put any more up until we're certain it's not going to cost either us or you.
See you soon!
Hello, stowaways. Long time no see.
A little update: CDs (& posters) are back:
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Okay, less than 5 minutes, good, good.
Thanks to everyone who grabbed them, and commiserations to those who missed out.
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Also, an apology for me (GpT) - you're all amazing, and you floored me. I was convinced this'd be a slow burn, and we'd sell what we've got stored over the course of a few months, but you all showed up fast!
That's great, but I want to be fairer about the rest when we're ready.
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Everything will still be available on Bandcamp as per usual, but now you'll be able to find all our stuff, wherever you're listening (if you tune your radio just right of an evening...)
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Due to the current pandemic, we're unable to post merch orders for the foreseeable future, so we've refunded all outstanding orders. We'll restock the Bandcamp once we're able to start sending things again.
Take care, stowaways!
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We’re not a mighty corporation clutching at our IP with a iron fist; we’re a small indie group trying to strike a balance between making our work accessible and protecting our modest income. Our releases represent our livelihoods and ten years of hard work.
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So we hear the demand loud and clear! And we're really glad the appetite for CDs is there. But we don't have any news for you at the moment. Hopefully not forever, but definitely not at the moment.
Thanks, stowaways. Keep watching the skies.
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The Toy Solider is back to its usual nonsense with another "Jessica Law" album featuring fae folklore, long-term nuclear waste warnings & terrifying biblically accurate angels. Help us humour it by buying the album here & streaming on all major platforms:
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(This is "good good, undertones of slight panic", in case tone wasn't clear)
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UPDATE: Wow this outstripped my wildest expectations. That's great, SO LONG AS I'VE DONE THE POSTAGE MATHS RIGHT.
I've shut down stock til I'm sure I've not messed up big time, but there are more, and I'll put it back up when I've had a chance to actually put an order in.
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We haven't heard from Raphaella La Cognizi for a while but she is still alive and making music! She has started a new project and just released a new single. If you have been missing her soulful vocals then check it out and follow
@SecondConnecti1
for more music coming soon.
Check out our new single Plug Me In:
Find it along with our debut single Overload on our
#SpotifyPlaylist
and major streaming sites:
#NewMusic
#alternative
#electronica
#electronicmusic
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Right! I’ve just dropped the next batch of CDs. Fill yer boots:
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And though this may be the end of the band in its current form, that doesn't mean we're stopping writing as individuals. We're putting together a masterpost detailing what the crew have been up to outside the Aurora, and what we're planning - so stay tuned for that!
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I'm not sure what that'll look like yet - probably something like announcing when they'll go live ahead of time? But yeah, I'll make it fairer the next time around.
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Right! It's 7pm UK, go get em:
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And thanks again - this is an amazing problem to have <3
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I believe some thank-yous are in order. Firstly,
@Nambucca_Live
- both the management and tech were incredibly friendly and professional, and made such a special couple of nights possible. It was a true pleasure to say our farewells within your walls.
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And finally, a massive thank you to you lot - our stowaways. Without your continuous support, the last ten years wouldn't have been the same - and we're still floored by how many of you turned up this weekend - and by how far some of you had travelled!
#DeathToTheMechanisms
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Kofi’s new album is out now...festive folk antics abound!
We're here - The Wassailant is out now! Check it out on Bandcamp:
I've loved working on these songs and I feel like I've grown as a musician along. I hope you enjoy listening. Happy holidays, everyone!
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Hopefully that covers it. Please don’t pitch us any of the things we’ve already said “no” to above, and please respect those boundaries.
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We released our albums under this license:
It’s Creative Commons, with some important rights reserved. We did this primarily to allow folks to access, share and enjoy our albums without feeling like they owe us money. However, about those important rights:
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Jonny “D’Ville” Sims (
@jonnywaistcoat
) writes the unsettling & award-winning horror fiction podcast “The Magnus Archives”, playing the narrator “Jonathan Sims” (how familiar…) If you need more of more of his terrifying imagination and storytelling: .
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Here’s what isn’t okay to do under the licence: 1/
- Sell our releases in any form
- Sell unofficial merch
- Sell covers or performances
- Adapt our work (e.g as a novel, musical or play) for commercial purposes, or with the intent to make money from the project.
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It's not free rein to do whatever you like with our work though, so please bear that in mind. Here are some examples of what’s ok and what isn’t:
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Oh, and we’ll be dropping mechs pins in the packages while we have ‘em!
Go get ‘em, space tiger.
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All this *might* change, but it'd be irresponsible and manipulative of us to promise or put a timer on that - a lot of things would need to happen first, many of which we can't control.
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(For the last point, you still have to credit us, say if you've made changes, link to the original licence & make it clear that your version is unofficial & unendorsed).
So, your fan cover or your not-for-profit student production is fine! You don’t have to ask us. Good luck!
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Things our license lets you do! 1/
- Share our album with your friends for free, with credit and under the original license
- Play our music at work without paying royalties
- Upload us (with credit) to YouTube if you demonetise the video
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Things our licence lets you do! 2/
- Cover our songs (with credit) without charging your audience money
- Adapt our work for a different context without charging your audience money
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What isn’t okay to do under the licence: 2/
- Try to pass off our work as your own, including creating an adaptation that doesn’t attribute us correctly or doesn’t indicate that you’ve changed elements.
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What isn't okay to do under the licence: 3/
- Mislead people into thinking your project is official or endorsed by us.
- Any of the “can dos” above without making sure you’re sticking to the original licence.
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This was explicitly a small batch; aim is to get these out as soon as possible so we can put up another set. Will let folks know when that is.
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@Bandcamp
looking for some clarity about your new rules. There's very little information or guidance available on your site about which options are relevant to us. It's problematic that you don't even provide an FAQ but are happy threatening musicians' revenues. Please dm us.
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The merch stand is ready to go! Remember to bring cash tonight if you want to grab any!
#deathtothemechanisms
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On top of that, further printing runs are a big financial risk - especially when we have existing inventory - and we haven't had the opportunity to sit down and work out what the ongoing clusterf*ck that is Brexit means for overseas sales and shipping.
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We'd love to be able to open up CD sales again - apart from anything, the physical versions of the albums are really cool artifacts with lots of art and setting curios, and we're super proud of them.
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Sadly, though, it's unlikely to happen in the near future. We handle all the stock and shipping ourselves and since DTTM, the band have scattered all over the UK.
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Kofi Young still has stories to tell, beginning with a final farewell to Marius. Keep an eye out for his upcoming album, working title “The Death of Byron von Raum.”, a dangerous blend of Folk rock & Mecha anime. Until then, check out “Shrove Tuesday”:
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But we are going to be looking into (a) seeing if reprints are possible, and (b) finding a solution to ship them out that's better than “we sit in front of jurassic park 1-3 and pack up a couple hundred CDs”.
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To make a long story short, the stock is all split up between different members and there's no one person with enough stock to open up sales again. There's not enough supply for the demand and COVID means we can't travel to consolidate the inventory.
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This is a lot of work, so no promises. We very much don’t know if this is possible/financially viable. Not going to answer any questions for now, since I honestly don’t know if we can make it happen.
I will answer questions about jurassic park, though.
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We've now officially sold out both nights (again)!
We'll see you there if you have a ticket, and if not, watch this space for details of the hopeful Livestream & probable recording!
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The Toy Soldier as Jessica Law (
@JessicaTheLaw
) has an impressive discography which can be found here: & on streaming services.
or sign up to her mail-list to keep up to date with her latest madcap schemes.
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“Gunpowder” Tim Ledsam makes music with the company Softwire, (along with Brian) - found on Spotify and at . The duo also have an album in the works, tentatively titled “Wizards, Wizards, Wizards”, as well as a band in the works with some non-crew members.
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Raphaella La Cognizi and the Drumbot have teamed up to release an album in the genre of “sad robot” which can be found on their bandcamp
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And if you’re interested in her day job supporting the next generation of LGBTIQA+ young musicians in Oxford, the birthplace of The Mechanisms, find out more here and throw some money to the noble cause if you like here
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The Drumbot, Ben Below has written a song a week without without missing a beat since 2016. Listen to them at & you might hear some other Mechs pop up too. Not limited to weeks, he also wrote an album in a month, which can be found on streaming services.
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And if you were ever curious about the Drumbot’s infamous morality switch then more will be revealed in his upcoming album, working title “The Wanderings of Drumbot Brian”: - follow the Drumbot's work at
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A special thanks to Nambucca's technician Gabor, who not only did an outstanding job mixing the bands and helping set up the livestream, but also improvised the best stage lighting we've ever had.
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This is urgent,
@OliverDowden
.
Our theatres, music venues & performing arts companies are on the brink of ruin.
We need them to survive. They need urgent investment and clear plans from government.
Please, act now
#ForTheArts
.
@Public_Campaign
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Next, thanks to
@Reesha_Dyer
(and Cameron!) for being an absolutely perfect support act. Reesha's music can be found on Bandcamp , as well as on all your favourite streaming sites.
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DEATH TO THE MECHANISMS -
The End is coming, delicious stowaways.
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Update: it now appears to be mostly back. There's a few gaps where the connection cut off completely, but it's mostly there.
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There are too many to name, but huge thanks to all the friends of the band who volunteered their time to help us run the merch stand, record video, and set up the livestream - we couldn't manage it all without you!
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This is likely the last drop of this year - with the holidays coming up, there’s not really going to be time to get another shipment done (even if we wanted to fight the crowds). We’ll be back next year.
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Reminder that this is a small batch, 30 of each CD, to see if that’s a more manageable number to ship at a time.
If you miss out, don’t worry - I’m hoping to put up at least one more batch before the end of the year.
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Second thing: This turned out to be a really bad way to have started getting CDs out there. I’m aware that, every time I open this up, I’m going to be upsetting a bunch of people who don’t quite click in time.
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Are we going to stop? No, because this is the best way we currently have to get CDs into your hands. But you’ve been so amazing, and we need to think differently.
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Secondly, for those of you who can't make it to the gig, our goal is to livestream the Sunday show - but this is very much tech dependant.
If it works out, we'll share a link shortly before the show.
Failing that, we plan to record the Sunday concert & make it available online.
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Annoyingly, we can’t actually block orders of 5+ CDs on bandcamp. So I guess, just… please don’t?
(If you do make an order for more, we’ll try and get in touch to allow you to grab the same stuff across multiple orders. But I’ll also lay a mild curse on you, see how that goes.)
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Her newest project is musical storytelling concept album based on the bizarre Italian epic poem Orlando Furioso - get a taste here:
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The short story: we’ve finally got the stock back in one place, so we’ll be sending them out again. This is while stocks last - we’re unlikely to do any reprints unless we think we can make it work.
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You shouldn’t have to pay any local import tax, but please let us know if you do; we might not be able to fix it for you, but it’ll help us figure out what we did wrong.
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(Oh, and if you think anything went wrong with your order, let me know. We’ve shipped everything as of Saturday, and estimated delivery should be ~1 week for most in US, less for EU, but if something’s gone wrong, I should definitely find out before we do another batch)
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Important note: We’re only putting up 30 of each CD.
We have more in stock (I’ll actually count them sometime), but this is to keep us sane. We’re not a professional outfit, and shipping ~200 packages is more than we can manage, even in the 15 day window we gave ourselves.
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R L Cognizi/Hughes also has more sci-fi concept music to share with “Lolina: Origins” at with all your favourite Mechs collaborators. If you follow her facebook some news is rumoured of a new album - shockingly not set in space.
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Oh, a favour; we’d ask that you don’t bulk buy to begin with. We’re already out of High Noon, and we want to make sure everyone who wants one of the others for themselves can get one first.
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But yes, with admin done - thanks so much. Your response to this blew us away. It’s amazing to see how much you care, even after all these years.
Space out.
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Notes:
- This is a limited stock (40 of each CD, 20 posters); we'll ship more next year
- Please don't order more than 4 CDs in a single cart; we've tried to keep postage low for you lot, and >4 cds messes with that
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@ForxGood
They're not gone, I was just wrong about how much folks would pounce on them, and am now terrified I might have done the maths wrong on postage. I'll hopefully get some more soon, just need to make sure we're not losing money on these before we allow more orders
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And thanks again for your support! I can't say enough how amazing it's been to see so many people want these.
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One other change - we’re limiting CDs per order to FOUR.
You can get more, but you’d need to make extra orders. Context: We got postage mostly right, but big orders caused us a problem. We need to stop big orders or start charging a lot more for postage, and this seems fairer.
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The longer story: yeah, these have been out of the shop for a while. This was initially due to COVID, but between that, brexit, and the band splitting up, it was tricky to get the stock back in one place.
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Just to super clarify here - I think everyone should have their orders from the first batch by the 23rd October, assuming you were in the last trip to the post office. I'll start properly worrying if it's not arrived by Halloween
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Anyway, this is an experimental batch. Hopefully we’ve got numbers right this time, and we can put up another small batch as soon as these are sent. Watch this space.
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Actually, on brexit; we’re pretty confident we’ve figured out how to ship things overseas, but it’s an actual living nightmare.
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Stowaways! After both the Saturday and Sunday shows sold out, we've managed to secure a handful of extra tickets for each of the nights.
Sat:
Sun:
#DeathToTheMechanisms
#TheMechanisms
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For those of you who can make it, we're going to have a merch table with CDs and a few other bits and pieces we've collected over the years:
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Remember that tonight's show is starting earlier than yesterday - doors are at 17:30.
#DeathToTheMechanisms
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Stowaways!
As demand for our farewell gig has been so high, we have secured a 2nd night to perform the show - also at Nambucca, on Sunday Jan 19th.
Be aware that the show will start earlier than the one on Saturday.
See you there!
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Can you believe it's been a year since The Bifrost Incident? Well, we've been busy since - we have not 1, not 2, but 10 new songs for you!
Enjoy a miscellany of visits to new worlds, a return to old favourites, and even a glance into the origins of some of the crew themselves!
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Some facts for tonight!
1. There are 10 tickets for tonight on the door
2. Entry is allowed for non ticket holders after the bands finish, turn up from 22:45
3. Merch is cash only - and there is additional Merch not previously advertised!
#DeathToTheMechanisms
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