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We have made 93,000 copies of this embroidered shaped cloth patch of one of David’s favourite paintings by himself of himself. It is 3” (7.6cm) high, and has a heat-cut border & iron-on backing. Please note: the patch is shaped; the black square around it is just to show the design and outline of the patch. We expect them in 3 weeks—which is why we don’t have a photograph of the item itself yet!—and we are talking pre-orders now. £7.50 each plus P&P. It will be posted out as soon as it arrives.

We have ordered a repress of the 4 badges that we recently did of David’s artwork. But we are only making them available as a set of 4 badges, at £15 a set plus P&P. There is a very small number of 2 of the designs, from the previous run we did, available separately, but once they have gone, the badges will only be available as a set. We expect them in 3 weeks, and are talking pre-orders now. They will be posted out as soon as they arrive.

We are OverMoon to announce that the second release of classic C93 albums remastered by The Bricoleur will be Thunder Perfect Mind. We are awaiting the test-pressings, and expect the 2LP to be out in March 2016. It will be swiftly followed by Soft Black Stars, Sleep Has His House and Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre.

We are as Happy As The Moon to give some details of the forthcoming special edition of The Moons At Your Door. It will be released at the same time as The Moons At Your Door book. The album consists of 3 one-sided black vinyl 12” records; all 3 records have no music on the black reverse. The first 2 records, which are white-label test-pressings, have, respectively, track 1 and track 2 from the standard album on their A side: so record one has “The Moons At Your Door” on side 1, and record 2 has “There Is A GraveYard That Dwells In...

David writes: I very much want to recommend the most recent book, Haunted By Books, by my friend Mark Valentine, which is published by the wonderful Tartarus Press. Mark has the most exquisite taste, and this beautiful and fascinating book consists of his essays on obscure, but astonishing, authors, many of whom he has re-discovered himself for us through his uncanny knack for finding the rare and curious. His introduction, a meditation on books and book-collecting, is one of the most beautiful, evocative and indeed accurate that I have ever seen. I read the entire volume in one go. I really...