The Rough Trade compilation is out next week. The first review has appeared. By a priest. John Davies, a Liverpudlian man of God who likes his football and music has chipped in with a bit of William Blake :
'The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction' - The Disco Students: The Rough Trade Song ("Never been on no Rough Trade compilation", these old punks angrily sing; last track on this Rough Trade compilation).
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Angry old punk, me?
Too right.

First rehearsal of the new era last night - new bass player John Catlett making his DS debut. We've got a set of new material - just one song, "Mark E. Smith's Dead", surviving from the past . It went well. On another subject, Matt from BBC Dorset has been in touch and has asked the Disco Students to contribute to an audio diary project that will be broadcast in the Spring.

Word has reached DS HQ that Aurora Radio of Warsaw, Poland are playing "The Black Girlfriend " EP.

A few weeks until the Rough Trade compilation is released - and the DS contribution "The Rough Trade Song" was played on The Counter Culture Show on Resonance FM last week. The new look DS begin rehearsals next week preparing for the two London shows in February & March.