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Marc Vormawah Personal Column were a Liverpool band, functioning from 1980-1986 (emerging somewhere between the Crucial Three and Frankie in the chronology of Liverpool bands), based around the songwriting of Marc Vormawah and Colin Brown. Big favourites of John Peel, they did three sessions for his show, as well as sessions for Kid Jenson and Simon Bates. There were records as well: two singles on the band's own Contrast label, and one on Stiff. This website is the online document of the band's career, and is, in a sense, the Personal Column album that never was.


I remember reading somewhere, one of those stupid surveys that you read, that some horrifyingly large proportion of men (50%? something like that) believed that they'd already met and lost the love of their lives. Which must be nice for their partners. I'm not aware that any of the members of Personal Column are pining for lost loves, but for us it was a band that we loved and lost, a moment when everything seemed like it was going to be alright, that time when the celestial DJ was spinning our request.

As you're probably aware, it didn't quite go to plan, and the music business ate us up and spat us out in gooey little lumps. Last year i was looking at the cassettes of the things we did, and it occurred to me that if we did nothing they'd degenerate till they were unplayable, and then it all would be like it had never happened. So this is our record, our mark on the wall to say that we were there. If you listen to and like any of the songs, drop us an email, or if you played on any of them, it would be fun to get back in touch.

phil hargreaves

Liverpool, May 2006



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