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News: Swiss punk popsters Chin Chin’s brilliant ‘Stop Your Crying’ and The Siddeleys’ ‘Sunshine Thuggery’ EP are the latest indiepop nuggets in Optic Nerve’s singles club – and not forgetting Girls At Our Best …

OPTIC NERVE, the Preston label which is repressing indie 7″s with love and care in its singles series, version 3.0 of which is with us now, is poised to release…

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News: The Nivens are the latest to get a loving and lovely Optic Nerve 7″ repress with ‘Yesterday’

OPTIC NERVE, the Preston label which is repressing indie 7″s with love and care in its singles series, version 3.0 of which is with us now, have just added a…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Disco Zombies – ‘South London Stinks’: a punk story retold by Optic Nerve

Loud, fast and forgotten: DIY punk nuggets are unearthed in this vinyl compilation spanning The Disco Zombies’ career

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PREMIERE: Disco Zombies – ‘Drums Over London’: see the video for a track from Optic Nerve’s forthcoming deluxe punk reissue

YOU’VE got to applaud Optic Nerve; the Preston label that reissues some of the most excellent lost cult classics of British punk and indie culture (am I alone in finding…

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SEE: The video for Folk Devils’ ‘Forever’ – London noiseniks are back on fine form

SPINNING out of all the gnarl and edginess of West London’s Ladbroke Grove in the mid-1980s, Folk Devils were an outfit that were never appreciated as much as they perhaps…

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NEWS: Optic Nerve’s sexy singles club announces v3.0

OPTIC NERVE, the wonderful Preston label that tickles the delighted fancy of any indie kid, has just announced the third edition of its singles club, which in the past has…

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Album Review: The Wee Cherubs – The Merry Makers

The ever-reliable Optic Nerve label are shedding some light on this obscure gem of a band who featured Martin Cotter, later to resurface in The Bachelor Pad, (chiefly remembered for…

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NEWS: mod revival nearly men The V.I.P.’s get an Optic compilation

OPTIC NERVE is really becoming the go-to mecca for wax heads who want pristine vinyl reissues of lost, past greats; an Edsel for the 21st century. The latest cult musical…

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Premiere: 80s/90s indie heroes BOB release new track, ‘Plastic’

Long standing readers of Backseat Mafia will know that our love for criminally underrated 80/90s heroes BOB knows no bounds. So the news of a ‘new’ album – ‘You can…

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NEWS: cult legends Folk Devils return with limited 10″

NOTTING HILL post-punk legends Folk Devils are back with a strictly limited 10″ for Preston’s rather lovely Optic Nerve Recordings – their first new music in 35 years. The 1980s’…

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