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yes - probably here as well as one of the VU Facebook groups. I'm still going through the rest of Bill Allerton's cassettes and digitising/transferring them. His copies of the Lou Reed 1972 concert recordings seem to be much closer to the masters than the copies in general circulation (in some ...

I suspect you're right. There's nothing about them on the Warhol Foundation website.

Never mind that - Tub Girls has also finally got a DVD release:

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AT LAST!!!

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I went to the Table of the Elements relaunch event a few weeks ago at the Garden Cinema in Covent Garden. The centrepiece was a screening of the Tony Conrad documentary, followed by a livestream interview with Tyler Hubby standing opposite 56 Ludlow St. Unfortunately my braincells were slightly ...

I've always liked Spacemen 3's Ode to Street Hassle, so I can't believe I've only just discovered this great homage to VU chug via their Forged Prescriptions collection of demos and outtakes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFq9UjUdmSY

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I'm pretty sure I bought my entire VU vinyl bootleg collection from the much-missed Plastic Passion shop in Notting Hill. The two Bills who ran the business famously fell out, retained the premises and divided it into two shops (!) Bill Allerton sadly died a few years ago and his collection is in ...

I hadn't seen those Pat Thomas interviews before. They're both really great.