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Mugged! My Story By Man From Uranus

Um "Holy Fire" Strawberry Fair 2004

The UM Archive for December, 2004

You’re not singing any more…

I once asked a friend of mine, a music business friend, what the physical manifestations were of the liver damage he had sustained as a result of too much drink. He described it as a sort of mental confusion whereby if you were sat equidistantly between a radio broadcast and a television transmission you’d be [...]

Pete Um and the Terrible Digital Curse Of Um

Alright, so I know I haven’t got beriberi or dengue fever or leukaemia but I do feel a bit cursed at the moment. Allow me to sketch a picture of the artist at work one night about a week ago. There I am, hunched in a corner of my cavernous and junk-filled room, because for [...]