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Shakedown
03-Sep-10
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Me & Him Present ...
03-Sep-10
The White Labels, The Winchesters, The Polyveldts and The Know
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Deamon Promotions: The Mix Up
05-Sep-10
5th September
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Mixed Bag
09-Sep-10
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SideShow
10-Sep-10
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Western Promise
11-Sep-10
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The Dead Sons
16-Sep-10
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Me & Him Present ...
17-Sep-10
Bleakhill, Mourning Sky, Frankincense & Friends
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Chibuku - Opening Party
18-Sep-10
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Whiplash Presents Prostitute Disfigurement and Guests
19-Sep-10
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Gideon Conn
23-Sep-10
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Aquarium Reunion
25-Sep-10
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Deamon Promotions: The Mix Up
26-Sep-10
26th September
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Haunted Merseyside
27-Sep-10
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Whiplash Promotions presents Watain, Destroyer 666, Lordaeron, Otargoas
29-Sep-10
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Alexis Blue
01-Oct-10
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DJ Yoda's Audio Visual STOP, LOOK, LISTEN Tour
01-Oct-10
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Chibuku
02-Oct-10
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Doll & The Kicks
06-Oct-10
14+
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Drop The Girl
07-Oct-10
headline Blitz
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Dinosaur Pile-Up
08-Oct-10
Plus Special Guests Apple Cannon
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Avulsed
08-Oct-10
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SideShow
08-Oct-10
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Chibuku
09-Oct-10
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Eat Your Greens
15-Oct-10
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Shakedown
15-Oct-10
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Chibuku
16-Oct-10
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The Strange Death of Liberal England
20-Oct-10
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Attack! Attack!
22-Oct-10
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Chibuku
23-Oct-10
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Carcer City
27-Oct-10
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Metro Manila Aide
31-Oct-10
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Chibuku
06-Nov-10
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Matt Berry
23-Nov-10
of IT Crowd / Mighty Boosh fame
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Marseille
02-Dec-10
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Shakedown
02-Sep-10
October 15th @ INK
Mercury Midnight
Sydney Chasing Safety
Save Your Memories
From The Sky
Doors 7pm / 14+ show /18+ ticketholders free entry to shakedown / £5 adv
Chibuku
02-Sep-10
Chibuku 2nd October
Erol Alkan vs Boysnoize / Subfocus(live) / Roska / Joy Orbison / Futurebound
£14
Chibuku
02-Sep-10
Chibuku 9th October
Hospitality
High Contrast / Andy C / Nutone / Netsky / Shy Fx / Nero + more £13
Chibuku - Opening Party
02-Sep-10
Chibuku
02-Sep-10
Chibuku 16th October
Adam Beyer / Carl Craig / Skream / Katy B / Tensnake
£14
Chibuku
02-Sep-10
Chibuku 23rd October
Annie Mac / Fakeblood / Flying lotus / True tiger records
£15
Chibuku
02-Sep-10
Chibuku 6th November
Dubpolice David Rodigan / Caspa & MC Rod Azlan / Emalkay / Count & Sinden Zinc
£13
The Dead Sons
31-Aug-10
Hypnotic howls, death drum rolls; organ buries itself deep into the subconscious. Melody embraces and enshrouds, whilst the bass moves mountains and the guitars effect panic. This is disorientation, this is ‘DEAD SONS’
http://www.myspace.com/deadsonsmusic
Support comes from Vital Fires; a young band from Liverpool consisting of five mates who love to make music. They play a cross-genre style of rock, drawing influences fromeverywhere.
http://www.myspace.com/vitalfires
and The Laurels - from the youth centers and drinking holes, via a time travel trip across the southern states of the US of A emerged the sound of the Laurels. Bluesy, indie rock with one foot in the past, the other striding effortlessly into the future.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/The-Laurels/128250440523761?v=info&ref=ts
Matt Berry
of IT Crowd / Mighty Boosh fame
26-Aug-10
DJ Yoda's Audio Visual STOP, LOOK, LISTEN Tour
23-Aug-10
Stand back! Super-dextrous turntablist and AV master DJ Yoda is once again pushing the entertainment envelope by taking his newest show to the biggest screen in town – the BFI IMAX in London! Fresh from AV shows through Asia, America and Brazil, the Stop Look & Listen shows will make you do just that.
No stranger to breaking new ground and consistently raising the bar in DJ entertainment, DJ Yoda’s multifaceted AV live shows are renowned for being an audio visual spectacle. Stepping up to his BFI IMAX debut with more than a few new tricks up his sleeves, audiences can expect to experience DJ Yoda’s latest AV expressions in their enormity as he welds B'More, Dubstep, Drum n Bass and Reggae rhythms to film/TV scenes and a whole new selection of the finest that YouTube has to offer. All thrown about with a large dash of his trademark tongue in cheek style, DJ Yoda's artful armoury takes AV to the next level.
Recipient of numerous DJ accolades, Yoda has risen above his contemporaries, standing out with his distinct AV mixing techniques, inclusion of intelligent humour, innovative ideas and a true sense of how to get dancefloors not only ignited, but spellbound by his integrated and unique performance. As a recording artist in his own right he has been busy in the studio working on soon to be released ‘Yoda and Friends’ EP on Jam City Records, as a precursor to his next album. Tipped by Q Magazine as one of ‘The 10 DJs you must see before you die’ and voted alongside DJ Premier as ‘One of the Top Three DJs in the World’ in Hip-Hop Connection magazine, DJ Yoda represents a new brand of unmissable mix-mastery.
Limited £6 tickets - http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_northwest&query=detail&event=406230 - 18+ - 8.00pm - 12.30am
Deamon Promotions: The Mix Up
26th September
18-Aug-10
Daemon Promotions Presents: The Mix Up. A selection of Liverpool's hottest acts all under one roof for a night of messiness and epic fun times.
September 26th's Lineup includes..
Entropy Charlotte Lynch Acoustic Set (Lost To Be Found) All Out Of Luck The Varangians
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MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON!
Tickets are £5 in advance or £6 entry on the door!
Make sure you get down and check it out!
Deamon Promotions: The Mix Up
5th September
18-Aug-10
Daemon Promotions Presents: The Mix Up. A selection of Liverpool's hottest acts all under one roof for a night of messiness and epic fun times.
September 5th's Lineup includes..
Set Upon Invasion Save Your Memories Applejuicebox Stereo Virgins Fury In The Fire Behind The Lines instru-MENTALISTS
Tickets are £5 in advance or £6 entry on the door!
Make sure you get down and check it out!
Metro Manila Aide
16-Aug-10
Metro's biggest Liverpool show of 2010
The Devils Handbook experience live in the city of its creation.
Live from the Masque theater. The band that brought you the world record breaking debut album now brings the greatest live show in the world to the stage. An hour-long set of classics and new tracks from the follow up to The Devils Handbook, Metro are writing history and choose Halloween, October 31st to bring it home.
With a choice selection of local supports. A 14+ show 5 minutes from Liverpool Central station. Advance tickets available from www.masque-liverpool.com asap. Tickets available on the door at £5 for this special event. Fancy dress is necessary!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118815314834615
SideShow
10-Aug-10
DARIUS SYROSSIAN & NYRA: > In 2010 alone Darius Syrossian & Nyra have taken massive strides on an international scale in the house music scene, with no less than 3 tracks in the beatport top100, one of which entitled 'Luis Conte' reached number 5 and stayed in the top 20 for ten weeks, and by July beatport announced was the years 35th biggest selling record of over 6000 releases on all of beatport for the first 6 months of the ye...ar
The pair have already played three festivals in 2010, @ the W M C 2010 in Miami as well as Sonar Festival Barcelona, & Extrema Festival in The netherlands, other international gigs have seen them flying up to Canada already on two seperate occasions to play in Toronto & then also to the U.S again to play in Texas European gigs have seen them play many different cities one of them being @ Space in Ibiza alongside Nick Curly, Ellen Allien, Livio & Roby, Martin Buttrich & more
Nic Fnciulli asked the duo to do a guestmix for his Worldwide sounds show in Feb which can be downloaded here > http://soundcloud.com/dariussyrossian/darius-syrossian-nyra-viva-music-guest-mix-for-nic-fanciulli-worldwide-sounds-show
forthcoming gis for the duo will see them play yet another festival this year, this time @ Kazantip festival in Ukrain alongside Ricardo Villalobos, Carl Cox & more
They have also been chosen by Steve Lawler who they are exclusivley signed to on VIVa Music to present their own VIVa Music Radio show that will be fortnightly & within a few hours of VIVa's pr team making this show available to FM radio stations around the world no less than 25 stations from a far afield as Lebanon to Brazil signed up to syndicate the show
BOURNE VAN GELLO: Bourne van gello is a Musician, DJ, Producer and Radio Presenter based in Liverpool, England.
Bringing his own style into the dance scene, refining sound through tweaking & experimenting, Van Gello's DJ sets take in elements of Groovy Tech, Dark Techno, Minimal Audio & Progressive sounds, always keeping faithful to their House routes!
A typical 'Bourne Van Gello ' set can consist of anything, from an uplifting terrace sound right through to a deep underground tech house blend.
JOSH MURPHY:
LIAM BULLOCH:
Pre-Party @ the peacock 6pm -10pm, Jonny Holmes // Luke Lukas Bennet // Scott Grant // David Glass //
AFTER PARTY . TBA
Aquarium Reunion
10-Aug-10
Back in the late 90's and early 00's, clubbing was in full force. Liverpool was an undisputed heavyweight in nightlife activity and local djs pioneered sounds that inspired a generation of party goers. The Aquarium Nightclub was an institution for many liverpudlians. The weekly thursday night event, 'Wildlife' was the most common reason for a Friday absence from work and the Saturday night parties where thought of as the underground alternative to the legendary Club051.
This one off event will showcase some of the venues biggest stars, playing the largest tracks of the era. Its time to go 'Back to the Old Scouse'...
featuring...
Lee Butler (Radio City 96.7) 'From the early 90's, Lee was a massive star on the Liverpool clubbing circuit. A huge following for over a decade labeled him the citys number one for many years. Holding down residencies at 'The State', 'The Buzz' and 'Club051', Lee was considered a household name. Playing to locked out venues every week his popularity grew and his talent for breaking big tunes and mixing acapellas became notorious. His sets at the Aquariums Thursday night 'Wildlife' parties have been regarded as 'legendary' and his record label, 'BCD Records' showcased some of the venues biggest tracks. Expect to hear some true Liverpool classics on this set.'
Steve Cocky (Radio City 96.7) 'Ste was one of the Buzz clubs original Heavyweight Djs. He was the man who dropped the big tracks at the right time! His production alias 'Sosumi' was responsible for some of the aquariums biggest anthems and they still stand true as landmark tracks of the time. Ste has since gone on to secure a slot on Radio City and is the man behind successful Clubland act, 'The Northern Allstars'. Expect to hear fat beats and uplifting Trance from start to finish!'
Rob Cain (Bounce Heaven / Frequency) 'Originally brought in as the warm up Dj. Robs popularity at The Aquarium Nightclub increased week after week, making him one of the most popular and recognisable of the clubs residents. Since the Aquarium, he has gone on to gain superstar status within the UK Bounce Scene, with the general public voting him number 1 Dj in both 2008 & 2009. Expect to hear anything and everything pumpin!'
Alan Holt (Garlands / Buzz Club) 'Holty has long since retired from Djing, but his love for the era has brought him back for one last set. Alan was one of them djs who had that special 'x-factor', knowing exactly what tune to drop at exactly the right time made him legendary in every venue he was resident at. His return is something not to be missed! Expect to hear the biggest anthems and club favourites in a way that only Alan can deliver!'
Ian Redman (BCM, Magaluff) 'A success story from start to finish. Theres no denying that this lad has grafted for what hes got now. Regularly playing gigs every night of the week all over the country is standard. Ian was an original member of the group 'Ultrabeat' and had chart success with massive Aquarium anthems 'Pretty Green Eyes', 'Feeling Fine' and 'Better Than Life'. Ian is now a resident at BCM in Magaluff and his night regulary breaks attendance records! Expect to hear some huge vocal anthems!'
MC B (Basshunter Tour / Frequency) 'Ben has been smashing out the lyrics in liverpool venues for many years now. His talent has seen him perform all over the globe. Originally the MC for Mick Di Scalas Rezonance Q alias, Ben was soon poached by the Aquarium team to perforn at the weekly saturday night events. Nowadays Ben has a residency at liverpool last standing Scouse House venue 'The Pleasurerooms' and has recently returned from hosting Basshunters sell out tour. Expect to hear lyrics galore!
Doors open 10 till 4.
10.00 GBP on the door.
Dresscode: Absolutely no sportswear or caps. Make the effort. Dont be a tramp. Smart Trainers are ok. Just because its a retro event doesnt mean you can whip on your reebok classics and tuck your pants into your socks!
Strictly over 18s only. R.O.A.R.
SideShow
06-Aug-10
Friday 10th September @ the Masque, Seel Street, Liverpool
THE EVIL AMIGOS: The Evil Amigos have now established themselves on the underground circuit after a blistering couple of years. Not only were the boys busy captivating dance floors across the UK, but the launch of their tech house record label Carpe Diem Musica was a blinding success. Within its first year Carpe Diem Musica has collaborated with and signed up some of the underground scenes best producers who have boasted many Beatport number ones - Loko, Simon Stokes, Ahmet Sendil, Alex Young, Tim Weeks and Cozzy D to name but a few.
This year promises to be even bigger as production work comes flying in for their groove laden tech house style. The boys are currently bi-monthly residents at Manchester super-club "Sankeys", voted number 1 club in the world by DJ Magazine. They have played alongside some of the worlds elite like Nic Fanciulli, Wally Lopez, Format B, Clive Henry, Guy Gerber ... the List is endless! With future ambitions to hold Carpe Diem Musica record label parties across the globe, the years ahead really do look bright for these young talents.
WARBGASM: Warbgasm has a big future ahead of him, if his first EP on Hypercolour Recordings is anything to go by. He has gained support from the likes of Lee Jones, Patrice Baumel, Stimming, Will Saul, Plasmik, Milton Jackson, Quarion, Funk D'Void, and Laurent Garnier. DJ-wise has so far seen him play various venues throughout the UK, from the O2 Academy and various warehouses in Liverpool to Ministry Of Sound in London, playing alongside such names as Reboot, Ame, Will Saul, Adam Beyer, Steve Lawler and Nathan Fake.
He draws influences from a wide variety of music, and his sound flirts mostly between House and Techno with an emphasis on warm, emotive and almost cosmic sounds and melodies. "Influenza" made it onto Lee Jones' beautiful Resident Advisor podcast, whilst "Dead Arm" is featured on the very first Warung Brazil compilation mixed by the 16 Bit Lolitas.
Early critical acclaim came from DJ Magazine commenting on a track of his heard on his MySpace “Sounding like ants on acid ... We're suprised to know he is still unsigned ... Labels, get in touch with him, please!” John Digweed also picked up on a remix he did of X-Press 2's "Kill 100", playing it on his "Best of 2007" Transitions show on international radio station Kiss.
Support from : LEE MILLS : RICKY MEAKIN : JOHN WALKER:
Along with the infamous SideShow acts!
TICKETS: £5Adv // £4 Nus // £5 Otd // 10 - 3am //
PRE-PARTY @ THE PEACOCK, SEEL STREET 6PM-10PM JOSH MURPHY : ANDY POTTER : LUKE LUKAS BENNETT : SCOTT GRANT
The Strange Death of Liberal England
03-Aug-10
2008, London. Producer Dave Allen (The Cure, Depeche Mode) notices a copy of the debut mini album from Southsea’s The Strange Death Of Liberal England in a record shop. Intrigued by the name and the sleeve art of the record, designed by bass player Kelly Jones, he makes his purchase and falls in love with what he hears.
2008, Southsea. The five members of The Strange Death Of Liberal England are in a strange place. Having seen press acclaim for their debut mini album, ‘Forward March!’ and played the expected tours and festivals they reach a creative impasse as their former label, Fantastic Plastic, retrenches. From nowhere Dave Allen contacts them and they arrange to work together with no clear and obvious path to follow. The seeds of their debut album, ‘Drown Your Heart Again’ are sown.
The first fruits of this relationship are a limited single, ‘Angelou’, and an initially fraught creative relationship that sees the producer declare their proposed album tracks ‘hopeless’ in the main as tempers fray. Yet Allen’s belief that the band are capable of greatness cuts through the tension and the band react by listening to his advice to de-complicate the songs with key writers Adam Woolway and William Charlton re-writing existing songs and creating new tracks which, on presentation, get the producer’s seal of approval. From the glorious naivety of their debut release, the band move forward several gears, believing that their strong melodies and undoubted creative abilities can prosper without the attendant sloganeering and deliberate musical intellectualising that had been a large part of their oeuvre to that point. Choruses are embraced, song structures are formalised, attention is paid to the song rather than the concept.
This being The Strange Death Of Liberal England, a band driven by a love of the likes of The Cure, The Smiths and other acts that balanced pop with deeper meaning, the concept still has a place and the first sign of that is an audacious decision for the unsigned band to play a sit down theatre show with a full orchestra. A meeting in a pub between keyboardist and band philosopher Andrew Wright and local youth orchestra leader Richard P Horn leads to this one off, sold out show at the New Theatre Royal at which many of the new songs are premiered and the circle of thinking for the album is complete. As with many of the relationships that create ‘Drown Your Heart Again’, the orchestra give their time for free, becoming part of a community that will, in combination, deliver this most unique of debut albums.
With producer and full orchestra in place, Portsmouth once again delivers as local recording facility, The Old Blacksmith’s Studio, offers the band time gratis to make the album. In a nice piece of extra community feeling, this is where the band’s career began having won studio time there in a local battle of the bands competition that went on to become their debut EP. Allen drives his camper van down to the South Coast and for three weeks the producer of, amongst other things, The Cure’s all conquering ‘Disintegration’, camps out and shares in the cheap pizzas cooked in his van’s oven that fuel the sessions. From nowhere in 2008 to a completed album at the opening of 2010, the unsigned band have created a community of like minds to deliver an album that pools the talents of all to create an orchestral pop record of quite dazzling melody, lyricism and overall feel.
It seems appropriate that at the heart of the album is a sense of community and an overriding desire to scale musical peaks. The members of the band have been their own self sustaining community since meeting in Gosport, Hants, as teenagers. As singer Adam Woolway explains, it’s the kind of place that throws together anyone outside the local ‘norm’, the kind of place immediately recognisable to anyone born outside of the major cities of the UK:
‘We learnt to play by forming the band. Gosport was the kind of place where, if you like our kind of music and look like we do, you were thrown together, the idea of safety in numbers transcended age’.
The album itself would not be as it is without the band’s now home town of Southsea, a stone’s throw from Portsmouth. Whilst Adam’s lyrics do not draw specifically on the area, the juxtaposition of the seemingly endless expanse of the sea visible from his living room window and the lights of the city inhabit the songs throughout the album. Searchlights of lost friends flicker from offshore to the South East (‘Flickering Light’), ‘waves like armies on horseback’ backdrop a sun sinking behind the buildings on ‘Flagships’, the endless sea and the captive sun in combination or conflict, ships in the night become a metaphor for unseen lives (‘Shadows’) as the album builds a lyrical tableau where nature becomes a palliative for the blows of life in the city as Adam explains:
‘For me, there has always been something 'spiritual' to the sea. It’s a place where people surrender their emotions, like a confession, literally leaving them behind. As well as a boundary and an ear for melancholy and loneliness, however, the sea is also a place of happiness, of nature, and of freedom and escapism. It is this contradiction that I have tried to convey in my lyrics across the album. The album is not about a particular event but the human emotions that all stare back at you when you look out from Southsea beach in the middle of the night.’
In their expropriation of sea shanty on their debut mini album and again here on the ship’s horn that announces the album’s title track, the harmonium on ‘Autumn’ or the album closer ‘Dog Barking At The Moon’ replete with elegant, mournful brass that ebbs and flows like the tides, the sea excerpts a huge influence on the music whilst title’s like ‘Flagships’, ‘Rising Sea’, ‘Lighthouse’ and the album title itself make the connection between the band and location explicit.
From nowhere and despondency in 2008 to now it has been a strange journey indeed. Along the way, the making of ‘Drown Your Heart Again’ has seen the five piece band become a community endeavour, a meeting of like minds and like hearts to create an album that flows like the sea that stands as its major influence. As with all albums there are plenty of odd moments, the theft of Dave Allen’s camper van and its use in a car bombing of a Nissan garage in High Wycombe, the abandoned Victorian coastal fort that houses the Richard P Horn Youth Orchestra but, as with the band’s new found desire for focus, these are beside the point. The Strange Death Of Liberal England are no longer complicated. They are effortless, simple, brilliant, beautiful pop and ‘Drown Your Heart Again’ is the purest evidence of that for which anyone could wish.
Lewis Jamieson, Loudhailer Press
lewis@loudhailerpress.com / 07718 652582
Me & Him Present ...
The White Labels, The Winchesters, The Polyveldts and The Know
03-Aug-10
The White Labels, The Winchesters, The Polyveldts and The Know.
Me & Him Present ...
Bleakhill, Mourning Sky, Frankincense & Friends
03-Aug-10
Bleakhill, Mourning Sky, Frankincense & Friends
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