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Good quality recording of Spacemen 3’s largest headline show at the Town and Country, 23 July 1989. Thanks to DO.THE.MOOZIK!

Amusing backstage photo from the 25 June 1989 gig at the Glasgow Mayfair, later renamed the Garage, courtesy of Steve Dutch Boom.

A gig from 18 July 1986 which was probably mentioned on the poster advertising the 9 July gig at the Clarendon, if that one wasn’t cropped at the bottom.

Spacemen 3’s links to MC5 were no secret. After the release of Sound Of Confusion, Pete Kember was contacted by fans who had noted the similarity between the album’s final track and an MC5 live favourite. In issue 14 of the US music magazine Forced Exposure, he said: “I got a couple of letters, one …

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Some great photos of the gig from 4 January 1988, courtesy of Paul May (Instagram).

A fantastic recording of this gig has recently surfaced on YouTube.

Nice flyer for the 14 May 1987 gig at the Crown and Castle pub in Dalston, courtest of Dan Cross of Perfect Disaster. A good time to live in the area…

A selection of Spacemen 3 reviews from Select magazine, of Recurring, Playing With Fire, Performance, Dreamweapon, Live In Europe and Translucent Flashbacks. All from the Select Magazine Scans website (http://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/), via Kirill Maslov.

In episode 8 of Spacemen Pod, we take a look back at Spacemen 3’s performance at Watermans Arts Centre from 19 August 1988, the gig everyone now calls Dreamweapon. With contributions from Spaceman for the night Steve Evans, bassist Will Carruthers, taper Andy Jackson, Vinita Joshi of Rocket Girl Records, Steve Mitchell of Fierce Recordings, …

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An amazing video of Spacemen 3’s gig at the Enterprise Pub in Chalk Farm on 2 August 1986 has been posted to YouTube.