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Kirill Maslov has tracked down this ticket for the 26 May 1989 gig at the Velvet Estate, Rimini, Italy. It has been signed by Robert Butler from The Miracle Workers, the headline band for the night, making this the only gig on the 1989 European tour that I’m aware of that Spacemen 3 didn’t headline.

The new episode of the James McMahon podcast is an interview with Pete Kember. First two-thirds or so are mostly an interesting, if slightly depressing, discussion of the state of the world. But there’s a fair bit of Spacemen 3 chat starting around 40 minutes in. Only on Spotify as far as I can see, …

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A photo from the last Spacemen 3 gig at the Reading Festival, 25 August 1989, recently posted on Twitter by TheJazzDad. Not the ideal location to be photographing the stage from, perhaps, but it’s the best one of this gig that we have, and you can actually see Mark Refoy. No one is sitting down!

I already had a picture of this poster from the first Spacemen 3 gig outside the UK on 10 March 1987, but it’s nice to have a much clearer version. Based on the cover of Thin Lizzy’s Jailbreak!

A poster for the “Birthday Gigs”, held on 18 November 1986 and 26 November 1986 (Pete and Jason would turn 21 the day after the first of these). There was already a picture of a red version on the pages for these gigs, nice to have a yellow version too.

Poster for the 1 March 1989 gig at Keele University. Pay no more than £1.50!

A fairly basic but still nice to see poster for the 10 May 1989 gig at the Arena, Vienna, Austria.

Discovered on a Hungarian auction site by Kirill Maslov, this is a great poster for Spacemen 3’s only gig in the Eastern Block, at the Fekete Lyuk (Black Hole) in Hungary, 12 May 1989. From Erik Morse’s Spacemen 3 book: ‘The spare floor filled with bodies by show time. Shadowed arms and legs contorted to …

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A recently unearthed live photo from the Edinburgh Venue gig, 21 March 1988. Courtesy of Noel Douglas.

We continue our chat with Mark Refoy, who recounts his memories of making the Spiritualized album Pure Phase. Photo of Mark in the early days of Slipstream courtesy of Phil Nicholls (www.instagram.com/philnichollsphotography/). More details and links to various places you can listen here.