Times Encounter
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Link to “Times Encounter” being played on YouTube

Nigel Simpkins - X Enc EP

Side A  - “TIMES ENCOUNTER”
Side B  - “SCATTERED STRATEGIES”
                 “OBLIQUE REFERENCES”

Catalogue Number: BS002
Format: 7” in foldover sleeve -
Released: 1978
Sleeve: 1500 copies pressed. Each sleeve is unique and 50 included an additional (broken) record as a “smash hit”!
Recorded: Deep Space Studios, Hunton Bridge. (Remixed at The Aldwickbury Manor Harpenden

Times Encounter also appears on the Indie Compilation CD Messthetics 102. Details here and the Jon Savage post-punk compilation album “Fame” - details here and photos of the discs at the foot of this page..

Nigel SImpkins was in fact Cally the drummer in The Tea Set... and played live only once at the Waldos Package at St Albans City Hall 1979 - see poster

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Cally and Phil stuffing Nigel Simpkins discs into their sleeves

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Below is Jon Savage’s rather excellent “FAME a Secret History of Post Punk 1978-81” double LP on grey vinyl which contains X-Enc

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