Flame In Hand posters in chronological order #9: SNFU, Heresy, Neuroot - Leeds Duchess, Wednesday 14th December 1988. Heresy’s final show. At this rate (one a month) we might finish this series in the year 2050.

Available on Bandcamp now… crowpeople1.bandcamp.com/album/wastel...

Vinyl and CDs have arrived at Radiation Records in Italy. There are also packages on the way to Sorry State (USA), La Vida Es Un Mus (UK) and Waterslide (Japan). www.cracklerecords.co.uk to buy direct from us. www.maximumrocknroll.com/review/mrr-5...

Flame In Hand posters in chronological order #8: Fugazi, Karma Sutra, Joyce McKinney Experience - Leeds Duchess, Wednesday 30th November 1988.

Flame In Hand posters in chronological order #7: Christ On Parade, Thatcher On Acid, Shrapnel - Leeds Duchess, Monday 24th October 1988.

Flame In Hand posters in chronological order #6: The Ex, Dog Faced Hermans, Jackdaw With Crowbar - Leeds Duchess, Tuesday 27th September 1988.

Flame In Hand posters in chronological order #5: Scream, God, Visions Of Change - Leeds Duchess, Thursday 8th September 1988.

Flame In Hand posters in chronological order #3: Thatcher On Acid, Joyce McKinney Experience, Active Minds - Leeds Duchess, Tuesday 19th July 1988. Thatcher On Acid had to cancel, so Crow People stepped in. We know we had #3 yesterday, but that should have been #4. Three days & we fucked up already.

Flame In Hand posters in chronological order #3: Bad Beach, Dan and Hotalacio - Leeds Duchess, Monday 29th August 1988.

Flame In Hand posters in chronological order #2: Generic, Gold Frankincense and Disk Drive, Shrapnel - Leeds Duchess, Tuesday 12th July 1988.

A while ago, we started posting Flame In Hand posters in a fairly haphazard fashion. This is now an attempt to post all the ones we have in chronological order, one a day, starting with #1 - Ring, Crow People, The Next World - Leeds Duchess, Tuesday May 3rd, 1988.

CROW PEOPLE - Wasteland (Crackle 027). 2xLP with 8 page A5 booklet, A5 folded insert & download code - £20. CD with 16 page booklet & download code - £10. Available from www.cracklerecords.co.uk There’s a link to Bandcamp also, but please buy it from our website if you can. A labour of love.

Head across to www.cracklerecords.co.uk to buy our brand new release and listen to a track from it whilst you’re there.

Been sent this original poster to use in the retrospectic Crow People LP/CD we’re planning. Currently working on old unreleased studio recordings. Crow People were a marvellous band hailing from Doncaster in the late 80s that never got the recognition their music deserved. More news as we have it.

No. 40 in the Flame In Hand Series: Fugazi, Chumbawamba, Thatcher On Acid - Leeds Polytechnic, Monday 20th November 1989.

No. 39 in the Flame In Hand Series: Snuff, The Donnas - Leeds Cockpit, Wednesday 3rd June 1998.

No. 38 in the Flame In Hand Series: Jale, Oscar, Made For Jane - Leeds Duchess, Thursday 8th September 1994.

No. 37 in the Flame In Hand Series: Blanks 77, MU330, The Write Offs - Leeds Duchess, Friday 4th April 1997.

No. 36 in the Flame In Hand series: Cement, Rancid, Leatherface and Unsane gigs at the Duchess late 1993 to early 1994. Shellac in the ‘next’ category, the Unsane gig never happened.

No. 35 in the Flame In Hand Series: Fire Party, Silverfish, Sink - Leeds Duchess, Thursday 19th October 1989.

No.34 in the Flame In Hand series: Leatherface, Southport, Pylon - Leeds Rocket, Monday 26th June 2000.

Poster no. 33 in the Flame In Hand series: Promise Ring, Jets To Brazil, Kodiak - Leeds Duchess, Saturday 13th June 1998.

Poster No. 32 in a long series: R.K.L., Goober Patrol, Open Mind - Leeds Duchess, Wednesday 26th April 1995. With sincere apologies to Johnny Cash.

Chopper recording the ‘Said And Done’ EP with Neville Barker at Underground Sound, Ossett - 23 April 1994. We’d been expecting four songs off the demo, but they turned up with four new songs written specially. We loved the new songs, but there are some great songs that never saw the light of day.

Chopper in Ossett on the day of the recording of their first 7 inch in 1994.

Dave Chopper selling Crackle 001 at the Duchess Offspring gig Sept 94. A lot of time and effort went into the poster advertising it… This gig was rammed, with people trying to climb in through the windows beforehand as the Offspring had just broken big with ‘Smash’. Note the door labelled ‘DOOR’.

One of our only photos of young London band Ripping Teeth.

No. 31: The Ex, Dog Faced Hermans, Jackdaw With Crowbar - Leeds Duchess, Tuesday 27th September 1988.

No. 30: Servotron, Beachbuggy, Steward - Leeds Duchess, Friday May 1st 1998.

No. 29: Vandals, Assorted Jelly Beans, Scarper! - Leeds Duchess, Monday 5th April 1999.

No. 28: Neurosis, One By One - Leeds Duchess, Monday 1st November 1993. The sound was so loud at this one that it drove us to the back of the venue seeking to protect our ears.

No.27: Scream, Visions Of Change, God - Leeds Duchess, Thursday 8th September 1988.

No.26: Bikini Kill, Team Dresch, Comet Gain - Leeds Duchess, Tuesday 16th April 1996.

It’s been a while… No.25: Archers Of Loaf, Velocity Girl - Leeds Duchess, Monday 29th August 1994.

No. 24: Huevos Rancheros, Boyracer - Leeds Fenton, Monday 1st May 1995.

No. 23: J Church, Sensefield, Four Walls Falling - Leeds Duchess, Tuesday 20th June 1995.

Guns ‘N’ Wankers at Wharf Chambers in Leeds, July 2019.

A very rare picture of dONfISHER and their van, presumably after one of their six gigs and somewhere up north.

No. 22: Girls Against Boys, Flyscreen - Leeds Duchess, Tuesday 25th October 1993. One of a number of great GVSB shows.

No. 21: Discount, The ‘Tone, Write-Offs - Leeds Duchess, Tuesday 24th November 1998.

Snuff, Bulltaco, Baby Silverskins - Stoke Wheatsheaf, Friday 16th December 1994. Not one in the Flame In Hand series, but a reminder that we have a belting LP/CD release by Baby Silverskins available from www.cracklerecords.co.uk.

No. 20: Samiam, Snap-Her, Grover - Leeds Duchess, Thursday 24th June 1999.

No. 19: Chokebore, Polaris - Leeds Packhorse, Monday 8th October 1994.

Chopper on home turf upstairs at the Players Snooker Club in Wakefield in late 1994. Snuff, Doctor Bison and Skimmer Duchess poster stuck up on the back wall.

No. 18: No Means No, Snuff, Dog Faced Hermans - Leeds Duchess, Wednesday 24th May 1989.

Flame In Hand gig listings flyer Feb to April 1993. Includes the rarely seen out in public Rudimentary Peni. Sadly, Blyth Power and the Astronauts never came soon…

Schwartzeneggar, Hooton 3 Car, Woodhouse Rejects - Leeds Duchess, Sunday 13th August 1995.

The Forgotten, Sixer, Sex Maniacs - Leeds Bassment, Tuesday 15th May 2001.

No. 14: The ‘Tone, Lovemen, Pylon - Leeds Fenton, Wednesday 10th February 1999. Always one of my favourite posters of the ones we did, this one (although there are many other contenders).

No. 13: Snuff, Chopper, Ex-Cathedra - Leeds Duchess, Saturday 16th March 1996