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october 2009: shamed by a comment in a recent interview with respected music photographer kevin cummins, i have attempted to give credit (where known) for purlioned artwork and photography

september 2009: greek radio station kanali ena's dimitris antonopoulos did a feature on the passage on his rock zone programme, with interviews from joe mckechnie and dick witts
find the interviews on youtube

january 2009: added information on paul o'mahoney and a link to his new band contrawave

old news

november 2007: finally got round to adding a bbs/forum, called empty words, for fans to chat about all things passage

september 2007: added several new pictures to the photographs section. many thanks to tony friel

november 2006: after the announcement that smartgroups was to close down its service, the chat group was moved to jiglu

january 2006: hear the passage playing live in lon don 25 years ago. another track from new year's day 1981 at the ica: fear (1.0mb mp3); and later in april at the rca: the beginning the dawn (1.8mb mp3). mp3s donated by the passage and reproduced with permission

joe's old band benny profane are to get a new lease of life when their trapdoor swing / dumb luck charm reissue is released by lovable ltm in february. visit the benny profane showcase

november 2003: british monthly music magazine the wire has a back-page soliloquy about the lasting effect of the passage on writer nicholas royle

march 2003: ltm publishing, a specialist in 80s manchester bands, re-issued all of the passage's albums, augmented in the following ways:

• pindrop: new love songs and about time eps and a manchester radio session from february 1981
• for all and none: troops out and devils and angels singles
• degenerates: xoyo and taboos singles
• enflame: wave single and five demos from 1983 (including two unreleased songs)

ltm also released a bbc sessions compilation, containing three john peel sessions from november 1980, october 1981 and may 1982 (including two unreleased songs) and three demos from 1983 (including one unreleased song)

these cds can be purchased through srd, sister ray, rough trade and opal in the uk or darla in the usa

they are also available direct from james nice at:
1 spinney close, beetley, dereham, nr20 4tb, united kingdom