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How's it going friends? It's the last Friday of the month. We've almost made it to March. Is that the glimmer of winter's end on the horizon? Or just the flickering glare of washed out LED billboards bouncing off the cloudy sky like a crap, cyberpunk version of the northern lights?

Maybe it's both.

65LABS plunges into the coming spring like an ice cube into the north sea. Technically and chemically we are ready to thaw, though realistically the conditions remain pretty grim and so it might yet take some time.

But that's enough analogies. It's 2023 and there is simply no time for indirect communciation or nuance.

TWO BIG NEWS ITEMS TO REPORT TO YOU TODAY:

• 1. WILD LIGHT 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY 65DAYSOFSTATIC LIVE SHOWS
• 2. THE NEW POLINSKI RECORD IS OUT TODAY. RIGHT NOW! GET YRSELF TO LIMEWIRE!

1. THE WILD LIGHT DECADE

You heard that correctly. The grammy award-winning, hyper-platinum, genre-exploding, ultra-album known colloquially as Wild Light is ten years old this year. Feel free to take a moment to reflect on how ancient this news makes you feel. Think about all the wisdom and aches you have collected over this last decade. All the better to help you enjoy listening to such hits as Heat Death Infinity Splitter, Sleepwalk City and Safe Passage, played loudly, amongst friends...

Tickets for all of these shows are on sale RIGHT NOW and there's a handy list of all relevant ticket links RIGHT HERE. We'll be playing Wild Light all the way through, followed by some other things we've yet to decide upon. If we're not coming anywhere near you - apologies, but touring logistics at our level get harder and more expensive as the years tick by. We're trying! If you have friends in any of these cities why not encourage them to go in your stead? You can enjoy the shows vicariously, plus successful, busy shows will enable us to try and reach out a little further out in future. 

Here's the dates in case you can't see the beautiful tour poster above:

14 Sep 2023 UK // Glasgow - St. Luke's
15 Sep 2023 UK // Manchester - New Century Hall
16 Sep 2023 UK // London - Electric Brixton
17 Sep 2023 UK // Bristol - Trinity
18 Sep 2023 UK // Brighton - CHALK
21 Sep 2023 FR // Paris - La Maroquinerie
22 Sep 2023 BE // Antwerp - Trix
23 Sep 2023 NL // Amsterdam - Paradiso
24 Sep 2023 DE // Hamburg - Knust
25 Sep 2023 DE // Berlin - Hole 44

2. POLINSKI - TELEX FROM MIDI CITY

It has finally arrived. Paul's new record, Telex From MIDI City, is out today. It is available digitally, on vinyl, and also available, unlikely as it sounds, on limited edition VHS. It is out via Data Airlines, a great label that handles its own distro. This means you're unlikely to be able to walk into your nearest record shop (if you still have one) and pick up a copy. You'd be best off ordering direct.

Digital/Vinyl/VHS are all on BANDCAMP. You can also stream it on SPOTIFY (Destroyer of Musicians) and TIM APPLE has it too. It should be on all the other platforms within the next 24hrs.

Finally, if you like the sound of this then Polinski's socials are: INSTA // TWITTER // and he is now also trying to get MASTODON to stick. For fans of the more software/generative music side of Wreckage Systems, you should check out his Instagram and Mastodon feeds in particular - there's plenty of that kind of thing going on at the moment.

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Ok, that’s it!

As usual, this Patreon subscription remains paused for now. So please do stay signed up, it costs you nothing and it makes you look cool.

See you next time…

Take care out there, friends.

65.x