Crud Fanzine presents...
Link2wales gig reviews 2005 and earlier
2005
Christopher
Rees / Rachel Taylor-Beales Barfly,
Doa
UK / Blindfold Bar Blu, Rhyl 14.12.05
Arch Enemy / Throwback / Strapping Young Lad
Coal Exchange,
Neds
Atomic Dustbin
Young Gods / Skinflick The Masque,
Goldblade / The Business / Kings of Delmar
Satans Hollow,
Blondie / Hugh Cornwall St Davids Hall,
Elbow
/ Mew Academy,
Motorhead / In Flames / Girlschool Academy,
Army of Crows / Skinflick - Ffridd Bar,
My Turn To Kill - Bar Blu, Rhyl 19.10.05
Queen
Adreena / Infrasound / Ariel X -
Killing Joke / October File -
Killing
Joke / October File / Tribiatik -
The Telescopes / Flowers of Hell - The Marquee,
Supergrass -
Khagool -
Anti-Nowhere
League / Phinius Gage / Fuckerpunch - Central Station, Wrexham 06.10.05
The Undertones / Giveamanakick - Academy 2,
John
Cale -
Soft
Hearted Scientists / Lone Pine / Room Orchestra - Clwb Ifor Bach,
Dead
Men Walking - Central Station, Wrexham 28.09.05
Super
Furry Animals / Goldie Lookin Chain / El Goodo - The Afan Lido, Port Talbot
24.09.05
King
Biscuit time / Pip Dylan - Louisiana,
VHS
Or Beta / Forward Russia / The Voices - Barfly,
The Stooges - Hammersmith Apollo,
Matthew St. Festival, Liverpool 28.08.05
Stranglers / Buzzcocks / Moonies / Goldblade -
Matthew St. Festival,
The Rifles / El Goode / The Dirty Words - Barfly,
V2005
-
Oceansize / Amplifier / Martin Grech - Barfly,
Brian Setzer -
The Dirty Weekend -
Compass Point Festival - Coopers Field,
Zombina & The Skeletones / Jives Room / Delayed
Promise -
Bar Blu, Rhyl 03.08.05
The Damned - Central Station, Wrexham 31.07.05
Skinflick / Lantern / Flynch / Duncan Black / Kobe /
Der Bomber
Hendre Hall, Tal-y-Bont 24.07.05
Super
Furry Animals
Science / Seven Acre Smile / Ingo Star Cruiser Bandstand, Llandudno 13.07.05
Exploited, Misfits, Agnostic Front, The Filaments, US Bombs,
Deadline, Murphys Law, Freaks Union, BSD, Criminal Class - The Foundry,
Amen / Co-Exist /
Fuckerpunch - Central Station, Wrexham 11.07.05
Super Furry Animals /
Zabrinski - Barry Memorial Hall 06.07.05
The Phlegms /
Once Over / Der Bomber - Bar Blu, Rhyl 06.07.05
The Duels / Moscow
/ Khagool - Barfly,
Killing Joke -
International Arena,
Goldblade -
Urbis,
Khagool / The
Voices - Toucan Club,
Isis / Jesu / Borham /
Der Club of Gore -
Sympathetic
Affliction / Snowblind - Bar Blu, Rhyl 20.04.05
Afrirampo /
Burning Bhuddists / My Invisible Friend - Jug of Ale, Moseley
19.04.05
Trip -
Bar Hannah,
The Undertones
/ Bob Bob Bob & Bob -
Three Minute Warning /
Seize The Day / Adrenalin Talkin' -
Sick 56 / Instant
Agony / Seize The Day -
Hecate Enthroned /
The Prophecy - Hev'n Hell,
Buzzcocks / Ari
Up / 999 - Middleton Civic Centre 08.03.05
The Wrong Whole -
Tap & Spile,
Skinflick /
Inferno / Weapons of Mass Belief - RNA Club, Holyhead 20.02.05
Lantern / Micrographia
- Bar Blu, Rhyl 16.02.05
Pop Will Eat Itself
(on tour) -
Valleum / The
Loungs / Mark Wilson - Bar Blu, Rhyl 19.01.05
Velvet Revolver /
The Datsuns - MEN Arena,
2004
Jives Room /
Junebug / Gintis - Bar Blu, Rhyl 22.12.04
Akira The Don -
Hendre Hall, Tal-y-Bont 19.12.04
Neurosis / Jarboe -
The Forum,
Buzzcocks / Nev
Staples / The Rakes - Academy 2,
Status Quo / Mike
Peters - North Wales Theatre, Llandudno 01.12.04
Trip / Seventh
Letter -
Carpet -
Bar Blu, Rhyl 17.11.04
Sminchfest 04 -
Hendre Hall, Tal-y-Bont 13.11.04
Nick Cave &
The Bad Seeds - Apollo,
Katy Pie's Weekend -
16.10.04
Cult of Luna /
Alchemist / Textures -
Dead Men Walking -
Trip / Kneejerk -
Bar Blu, Rhyl 15.09.04
The Undertones -
The Dirty Weekend -
The Morvill, Rhyl 06.08.04
Xms3 / Glen UK / Mishap
- Bar Blu, Rhyl 04.08.04
Pelican / Jesu /
Dead Sun Rising - Medicine Bar,
Pigstock 2004 -
Plas Pigot, Denbigh 25.07.04
The Hollow / Wishing
Hour / Inner City Unit - Bar Blu, Rhyl 21.07.04
Flynch / Jives Room /
Modern Tradition - Bar Blu, Rhyl 15.07.04
Skinflick / Die
Pretty / Death To Plan A - TJ's,
Magic Band / Iconoclasts
-
Obsession /
Winabego / Dusty Moo - Bar Blu, Rhyl 16.06.04
Gintis / Kagnee -
Offas Tavern, Prestatyn 13.06.04
Sonic State /
Bootnic / Zenith - Bar Blu, Rhyl 09.06.04
Skinflick -
Mere Dead Men / Sick
56 / Kneejerk / L98 - Old Hall,
Junebug / Ship Ahoy
/ Valleum - Bar Blu, Rhyl 19.05.04
Shootin Goon / The Take
/ Douglas (acoustic) - Clwb Ifor Bach,
Valleum / Gogz /
Kobe - Hendre Hall, Tal-y--Bont,
Jah Wobble -
Academy,
Disfear / John
Holmes / Broken Access - 1 in 12 Club, Bradford 28.04.04
The Stills -
Academy,
The Damned /
Stuntface - Central Station, Wrexham 22.04.04
Kentucky AFC / Jives
Room / Winebago - Bar Blu, Rhyl 21.04.04
Kentucky AFC / Hot
Puppies / Wendykurk - Hendre Hall, Tal-y--Bont,
The Keys / Gintis /
Mooi - Clwb Ifor Bach,
John Otway -
Central Station, Wrexham 21.03.04
Darkest Hour /
Mistress / Decimate - Flapper & Firkin,
Assert / ISOR / Scarlet
Bullet Lake - The Talbot, Wrexham 12.03.04
Salem - Bar Blu,
Rhyl 10.03.04
Chikinki -
Central Station, Wrexham 10.03.04
Dead Pets /
Dangerfields / The Cox -
Flaming Ape's Head /
The Dregs / Shadows of Memories - Cardigan Arms,
Crave / Ethergy -
Ryan Adams
-
Station Ten -
Bar Blu, Rhyl 14.01.04
The Cox / L98 / Beastiality
Boys -
2003
My
Ruin / Charger / Murder One Central Station, Wrexham 18.12.03
The Hollow / Modern Tradition Bar Blu, Rhyl 10.12.03
Dillinger Escape Plan / Cult of Luna
/ Beecher Manchester Academy3 10.12.03
The Darkness / Ten Benson Manchester Apollo 10.12.03
Scout Niblett The Magnet, Liverpool 08.12.03
Echo & The Bunnymen Royal Court, Liverpool 29.11.03
Muse / Elbow / Kinesis Manchester Evening News Arena 29.11.03
Psydoll / Skinflick White Hart, Dumfries 28.11.03
Snatch / Bootnic Bar Blu, Rhyl 19.11.03
Alien Matter / Dogshit Sandwich Dudley Arms, Rhyl 15.11.03
Jarcrew / Kentucky AFC / Suns of
Thunder Hendre Hall, Talybont, Bangor
13.11.03
Dead Pets / Instant Agony / Vas
Deferens / Hangmen / Alien Matter
Old Hall, Penrhyn Bay 08.11.03
Fast Food Rockers Tranmere Football Club 02.11.03
Jello Biafra Blackpool Football Club 01.11.03
The Alarm (orig line-up) Scala Cinema, London 28.10.03
The Sleepy Jackson Academy 3, Manchester 12.10.03
Dead Men Walking Academy 2, Liverpool 11.10.03
Fear 'n' Loathing / The Cox Dudley Arms, Rhyl 11.10.03
Cooper Temple Clause Mousomturm, Frankfurt 30.09.03
Carpet / Jives Room / My Band is
Bigger Than Your Band
Bar Blu, Rhyl 08.10.03
Killing Joke Manchester Academy 06.10.03
3CR / L98 Dudley Arms, Rhyl 04.10.03
Gintis / Science / The Hollow Bar Blu, Rhyl 01.10.03
Kinesis / Boxer Rebellion /
Oceansize / Fi-Lo Radio
King Tut's, Glasgow 29.09.03
Unholy Grave / Total Fuckin'
Destruction / Narcosis / The Devils Brudenel Social Club, Leeds
25.09.03
The Cramps Rock City, Nottingham 25.09.03
Flesh Resonance / Alien Matter /
Carbon Atom Bar Blu, Rhyl 24.09.03
The Benjamins / Loving Cup / Clint
Boon Central Station, Wrexham 19.09.03
Casino / Hooper Bar Blu, Rhyl 17.09.03
Sonic State Dudley Arms, Rhyl 13.09.03
Wendykurk / Kipperwig / Carbon Vein
/ Valleum Hendre Hall, Talybont, Bangor
11.09.03
Fudged / Pistachio Fiends / Inner
City Sumo Bar Blu, Rhyl 03.09.03
4ft Fingers / Out of Use / The Cox / Kneejerk Old Hall, Penrhyn Bay 30.08.03
Skinflick / 9xDead / Pain Deleted Bar Blu, Rhyl 27.08.03
Doves / My Morning Jacket Conference Centre, Llandudno
22.08.03
V2003 Festival
Stafford Park, Weston 16.17.08.03
Model
Superb / The Hollow / Sarah Davies Bar
Blu, Rhyl 13.08.03
Dalek
/ Destructo Swarmboots / Rude Pravo
Barfly, Glasgow 05.08.03
Junebug / Gintis / Jive's Room Bar
Blu, Rhyl 06.08.03
Spitting Dummies / One Man Stand / 3CR / Dangerfields Old Hall, Penrhyn Bay 26.07.03
Dangerfields
/ Stuntface / Kneejerk
Dudley Arms, Rhyl 25.07.03
Flinch
/ Homespun / Jape Bar Blu, Rhyl 23.07.03
Tomahawk / The Melvins / Kadaa The Academy 2, Manchester 16.07.03
13
Amp / Inner City Sumo Bar Blu, Rhyl 16.07.03
Jives
Room / The Hollow Bar Blu, Rhyl 09.07.03
Ministry
The Academy, Manchester 01.07.03
Sonic State Dudley Arms, Rhyl 28.06.03
Cadium
/ Flesh Resonance Bar Blu, Rhyl 25.06.03
Waterboys
William Aston Hall, Wrexham 19.06.03
Kneejerk Bar Blu, Rhyl 18.06.03
Wendykurk / Kipperwig / Carbon Vein / Logic of Impossibility Hendre Hall, Talybont, Bangor 12.06.03
Junebug
/ Gintis / Jive's Room Bar Blu, Rhyl 11.06.03
Turnstone
/ Kentucky AFC / Dusty Moo Bar Blu, Rhyl 05.06.03
Bruce
Springsteen Old
Trafford, Manchester 29.05.03
Misfits
/ Lonely Kings / Panic / Inadequates
Zanzibar, Liverpool 25.05.03
Wendykurk / Valleum / Do Do's / Midasuno Hendre Hall, Talybont, Bangor 16.05.03
Ray Davies William Aston Hall, Wrexham
14.05.03
Midasuno / Dopamine / Nerve 424 Cathays Community Centre, Cardiff
10.05.03
Skinflick / Valid Point Bangor University 07.05.03
Dead Pets / Mere Dead Men / Stuntface Old Hall, Penrhyn Bay 03.05.03
Kentucky
AFC / Lonesome Boys Bar Blu, Rhyl 30.04.03
Wendykurk / Valleum / Ectogram Railway Institute, Bangor
26.04.03
Stuntface
/ Alien Matter / Xms3 Hendre Hall, Talybont, Bangor
17.04.03
Sick56
/ W.O.R.M / Six Year Hangover
Old Hall, Penrhyn Bay 12.04.03
Public Enemy / DJ Professor Rock City, Nottingham 06.04.03
Alien
Matter / Instant Agony / Six Year Hangover Dudley Arms, Rhyl 05.04.03
Melys
/ Stuntface / Cream Tangerine
Central Station, Wrexham 23.03.03
Strapping
Young Lad / Devin Towsend Band / Zimmers Hole Manchester Uni 20.03.03
Cult of Luna / Army of Flying Robots / S.M.I.L.E. Old Angel, Nottingham 17.03.03
Skeptix
+ Red Flag 77 + Violent Playground
Old Hall, Penrhyn Bay 15.03.03
Skinflick / Death By Visitation of God /
Hyperfury / Defiance
Islington / Stoke / Dudley 11-13.03.03
Negatives / Out of Use / Die Kast Messiah Old Hall, Penrhyn Bay 22.02.03
Pocket Venus The Shed, Leicester 20.02.03
The
Alarm / Kirk Brandon
The Masque, Liverpool 06.02.03
Wendykurk / Nameless / Nuke Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff Jan 2003
Beluga
/ The Draft / Pocket Venus - Central Station, Wrexham 10.01.03
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2002 - -
Oasis -
Liverpool Royal Court 16.12.02
Manic
Street Preachers - Cardiff International Arena 16.12.02
The
Bezerker / Cult of Luna / Incision / Without Face - Rock City,
Nottingham 16.12.02
Damned
/ Metallic / Homespun
- Conference Centre,
Llandudno 13.12.02
Homespun / Fudged / Flea Cirkus - Little Theatre, Rhyl 07.12.02
Finch
/ Coheed & Cambria / From Autumn To Ashes - TJs, Newport
04.12.02
Perfectly
Flawed - The Royal, Colwyn Bay 24.11.02
Doves
- The Academy, Liverpool 23.11.02
Stuntface / The Cox / Six Year Hangover - Fairview Inn, Llandulas 22.11.02
9x
Dead / Projekt / Skinflick / Acid Tongue -
TJs, Newport 21.11.02
Funeral
For A Friend / Sammo Hung / Jarcrew - Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff 21.11.02
Jarcrew
- Otts,
Newport 18.11.02
Guitar Gangsters / Out of Use / Alien Matter Old Hall, Penrhyn Bay 09.11.02
Idlewild / Black Swans - Bangor University 10.10.02
The
Lurkers / WORM - Coach Inn, Clynnog Fawr 05.10.02
Black Swans / Hooper / Moo - Breeding Ground,
Chester 29.08.02
Glueball / Instant Agony / No Matrix Old Hall, Penrhyn Bay 10.08.02
Pigstock Festival Denbigh 10.08.02
Commonwealth
Games, Ladies Netball Play-off
Manchester 02.08.02
Wakestock
Festival Abersoch 27.07.02
'Distortion
2002 Festival' Nottingham 20.07.02
'Holidays
In The Sun Festival' Blackpool 20.07.02
Pocket Venus
The Zanzibar, Liverpool 20.07.02
Bluetones / The Crescent / Ricky University, Bangor 19.07.02
Skinflick / Dammerung / Fubar Social
Club, Bangor 19.07.02
Pocket
Venus Night & Day,
Manchester 13.07.02
Move
Festival (New Order / Doves / Echo & Bunnymen) Old Trafford, Manchester 13.07.02
Move Festival (David Bowie / Suede) Old Trafford, Manchester 11.07.02
Glastonbury
Festival Day One Pilton, Somerset 28.06.02
Bryn
Fon / Gogz / Quidest Football Club, Caernarfon June 2002
TNT
The Square, Caernarfon June 2002
Schafer / Alien Matter / Kismet - Breeding
Ground, Rhyl 08.06.02
100 Reasons / Jet Plane Landing / Fubar Bangor Uni 29.05.02
Stiff
Little Fingers - Central Station, Wrexham 15.05.02
Fudged / Novello / Nutonic - Breeding Ground, Rhyl 11.05.02
The
Alarm 2002 / Spear of Destiny / Mighty Wah! Central Station, Wrexham 10.05.02
Bob
Dylan Manchester Evening News Arena
09.05.02
The
Hot Puppies Water Rats, London 07.05.02
Pocket Venus Telfords Warehouse, Chester
03.05.02
Pocket Venus / Carbon Atom / Hooper - Breeding Ground, Rhyl 27.04.02
Pocket
Venus / Careless Night
& Day, Manchester 24.04.02
The Hangmen / Stuntface Old Hall, Penrhyn Bay 20.04.02
Casino / Carpet / Dammerung - Breeding Ground, Rhyl 13.04.02
MASE
(Music & Sound Experience) Llandudno Conference Centre 08.04.02
Pocket
Venus Clwb Ifor Bach + Sams Bar, Cardiff
+ Monkey, Swansea 23/24/25.03.02
Black Swans / We Start Fires - Breeding Ground, Rhyl 23.03.02
Skinflick / Dammerung / Cut23 Social
Club, Bangor 15.03.02
Family
Mahone Sun Inn, Llangollen 16.03.02
Doves Wembley Arena, London 12.03.02
Big
Leaves / Pocket Venus / Mwsog Theatr Clwyd, Mold 03.03.02
Family
Mahone -
Bulkeley Hotel, Beaumaris 01.03.02
Skinflick / Flinch - Breeding Ground, Rhyl 23.02.02
Pocket
Venus Swallow Falls Hotel, Betws-y-Coed
22.02.02
Ian
Brown / Electric Soft Parade / Richard Parfitt Conference Centre, Llandudno 19.02.02
Out
of Use / Mere Dead Men / 3CR / Floaters Revenge Old Hall, Penrhyn Bay 09.02.02
Alien
Matter / Dive Madocs, Colwyn Bay 01.02.02
Dive / Kismet / Jamie Cardno - Breeding Ground, Rhyl 26.01.02
Mike
Peters The Alarm Gathering 10 - Llandudno Conference Centre, 12.01.02
Skinflick Barrels, Bangor 03.01.02
2001 - - - -
Carpet / Black Swans / Fudged - Breeding Ground, Rhyl 22.12.01
Pocket Venus Chester, Ryans Bar 22.12.01
MASE
(Music & Sound Experience) Llandudno Conference Centre 17.12.01
Carpet
/ Floaters Revenge The New Inn, Rhyl 07.12.01
Pocket Venus / Carbon Atom / Nutonic - Breeding Ground, Rhyl 24.11.01
Carpet
/ Jamie Cardno The New Inn, Rhyl 16.11.01
MASE
(Music & Sound Experience) Llandudno Conference Centre 12.11.01
MASE
(Music & Sound Experience) Llandudno Conference Centre 22.10.01
Black
Market Clash / Out of Use / 0898
- Llandudno
Conference Centre 29.09.01
Schafer, Newbreed, Eddy Thomas - Breeding Ground,
Rhyl 15.08.01
Leeds
Festival - Leeds 25/26.08.01
Fubar, Flea Cirkus, Mark Moonan - Breeding Ground, Rhyl 18.08.01
MASE
(Music & Sound Experience) Llandudno Conference Centre 13.08.01
Pocket
Venus Conwy Festival, 09.08.01
Pigstock 2001 Plas Pigot, Denbigh 04.08.01
Carpet - Breeding Ground, Rhyl 04.08.01
Gwacamoli, Alien Matter, Nutonic - Breeding Ground, Rhyl 21.07.01
Fudged, Find, Novello - Breeding Ground, Rhyl 07.07.01
Babakin, Homespun, Carpet - Breeding Ground, Rhyl 23.06.01
Gogz, Bighead, Grasshopper - Breeding Ground, Rhyl 09.06.01
Mangre, Snibglider, Sulphur - Breeding Ground, Rhyl 26.05.01
Lapdog, Pocket Venus, Keaf - Breeding Ground, Rhyl 12.05.01
Spear of Destiny, Carbonari - Breeding Ground, Rhyl 09.05.01
Flinch, Carpet, Dive - Breeding Ground, Rhyl 28.04.01
Fudged, Goad, Babakin - Breeding Ground, Rhyl 14.04.01
Tetra Splendour, Alien Matter,
Carbonari -
Breeding Ground, Rhyl 31.03.01
Blush, Pocket Venus, Homespun - Breeding Ground, Rhyl 17.03.01
Gwacamoli, Find, Junebug - Breeding Ground, Rhyl 03.03.01
MASE (Music & Sound Experience) Llandudno Conference Centre
19.02.01
Grasshopper, The Cardinals, Sulphur - Breeding Ground, Rhyl 17.02.01
Carbonari, Carbon Atom, Fudged - Breeding Ground, Rhyl 03.02.01
Mike Peters The Alarm Gathering
2001 -
Llandudno Conference Centre, Jan 01
2000 - - - - - - - - - -
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- -- - - - - - -
Placebo - Liverpool Royal Court 14.10.00
V2000 FESTIVAL - Staffordshire 19/20.08.00
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1999 - - - -
Catatonia / Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Llangollen 22.05.99
V99 FESTIVAL - Staffordshire 21/22.08.99
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1998 - - - -
Bauhaus - Manchester Academy 07.11.98
Placebo / Ultrasound - Manchester Academy 19.10.98
Junebug - Rhyl Bistro 16.10.98
Wild Weazel / Burn - Denbigh Town Hall 03.10.98
Manic Street Preachers - Chester Northgate Arena 16.09.98
Pineapple / Blue - Rhyl Bistro 04.09.98
PIGSTOCK '98 - The Denbigh Festival 15.08.98
Mike Peters / She Said / The Fluff - Rhyl Bistro 16.07.98
The Fluff - Rhyl Bistro 10.07.98
Sons of Selina - Rhyl Bistro 06.03.98
Blyth Power / Sons of Selina York Bonding Warehouse 19.02.98
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1997 ¬¬¬¬
Hawkwind / Sons of Selina - Rhyl Pavilion Theatre
03.11.97
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1996 >>>>
Sons of Selina / Gods Little
Monkeys The Cestrian, Chester
09.03.96
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1995 \\\\\
Mr Grimsdale / Meringue / Sons of
Selina Conwy Festival, Conwy
29.07.95
Sons of Selina / Serious Plankton The White Hart, Frimley 09.07.95
Porcupine Tree / Mandragora / Sons
of Selina (+
others) Vlietpop Festival, The
Hague 08.07.95
Porcupine Tree / Kava Kava / Sons of
Selina The Arena, Amsterdam
06.07.95
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1994 ********
Sons of Selina - Rhyl Bistro 19.08.94
Mantaray / Spitbaby / Sons of Selina
London, St Johns Tavern,
Archway 10.08.94
Clan Morrigan / Sons of Selina /
Babakin Llanefydd, Cil-y-Bryn Farm
17.07.94
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1992 <<<<
Psychosexual Sex Terrestrials / Jon
Bon 10p Colwyn Bay, Station Rd
29.02.92
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EARLIER
Y Cyrff / 4Q The Bistro, Rhyl 01.02.1990
Anhrefn - Manchester Uni / Fulham Greyhound
01.03.87
Jap Connection / VOTS / Vaj /
Physical Thought / Temperdex - North Wales Inn, Rhyl 17.1.1981
Sex Pistols - Quaintways, Chester 1976
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counting on you