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Six Minute War

Six Minute War

Six Minute War has been played on NTS in shows including La Vida es un Mus , featured first on 31 August 2018. Songs played include Progress, Camera and Nurses.

Six Minute War arrived on the scene in 1980, exploring minimal lengths as well as minimal lyrics and instrumentation. It might not be too wicked to call them the poorer relation to Crisis or the thinking man’s Heretics, but you get the idea. Their 11-song debut was entitled 33.3: the next release was More Short Songs (though there were only 5 of them and relatively long in 3 minutes a piece roughly). Their 4-track swansong was (naturally) Slightly Longer Songs. After that a couple of them ended up forming Fallout, and Rob Taylor later joined Andrew Beer in Concrete and 400 Blows.

The majority of these tracks were recorded at Street Level Studios and engineered by Kif Kif, who at that time had left Here And Now and was performing in 012. Both of these bands are featured on this site somewhere, as is more Fallout material.

Releases

33.3/75P EP (SMW, 1980) MORE SHORT SONGS EP (SMW, 1980) SLIGHLY LONGER SONGS EP (SMW, 1981)

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Six Minute War

Six Minute War has been played on NTS in shows including La Vida es un Mus , featured first on 31 August 2018. Songs played include Progress, Camera and Nurses.

Six Minute War arrived on the scene in 1980, exploring minimal lengths as well as minimal lyrics and instrumentation. It might not be too wicked to call them the poorer relation to Crisis or the thinking man’s Heretics, but you get the idea. Their 11-song debut was entitled 33.3: the next release was More Short Songs (though there were only 5 of them and relatively long in 3 minutes a piece roughly). Their 4-track swansong was (naturally) Slightly Longer Songs. After that a couple of them ended up forming Fallout, and Rob Taylor later joined Andrew Beer in Concrete and 400 Blows.

The majority of these tracks were recorded at Street Level Studios and engineered by Kif Kif, who at that time had left Here And Now and was performing in 012. Both of these bands are featured on this site somewhere, as is more Fallout material.

Releases

33.3/75P EP (SMW, 1980) MORE SHORT SONGS EP (SMW, 1980) SLIGHLY LONGER SONGS EP (SMW, 1981)

Original source Last.fm

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Progress
Six Minute War
Not On Label (Six Minute War)1980
Camera
Six Minute War
Not On Label (Six Minute War)1980
Nurses
Six Minute War
Six Minute War1980