Free Agents - £3.33

Tracklist

A	Untitled	17:43
B1	Untitled	4:15
B2	Untitled	8:36
B3	Untitled	6:16

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – Graveyard Studios
• Pressed By – Sound Manufacturing – △ 3929

Credits

• Performer [Uncredited] – Alan Deaves (tracks: B1 to B3), Eric Ramsden, Francis Cookson, Pete Shelley (tracks: B1 to B3)
• Plated By – E.G.*

Notes

A side: black label
B side: red label

White card master sleeve with 2 doodle photocopy pages attached (front and back) signed by Mondith.

PVC outer sleeve with sticker: GROOVY £3.33

Original Groovy LP never credited Free Agents anywhere. That wasn't known until the record was advertised in music papers like Sounds, and the inserts that came with later copies and other Groovy releases.

Side A live at York University (11/8/78) supporting Gang Of Four.
Side B studio recordings Graveyard Studios, Prestwich.

From Tony McGartland "Buzzcocks The Complete History" (1995, page 78):
"While [Buzzcocks] are mixing 'Love Bites', the rest of The Tiller Boys play support to Gang Of Four at York University. The gig, played by Francis Cookson and Eric Ramsden, is recorded and subsequently released on Groovy Records - the off-shoot of The Tiller Boys call themselves Free Agents, and the record is both called, and sells for, £3.33p. Despite [Pete] Shelleys absence from the live recording, the remaining tracks which make up the album feature Shelley, Cookson and Alan [Deaves] (guitarist/vocalist with The Worst), recorded at Graveyard Studios in Prestwich, Manchester."

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, stamped): △ 3929 STP 1 A
• Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, stamped): △ 3929 STP 1 B
• Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, etched): \ E.G.
• Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, etched): E.G.

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
STP-1, DC-458	Free Agents	£3.33 ‎(LP, Album, RE)	Groovy Records , Drag City	STP-1, DC-458	US	2011

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