"This Sporting Life" / "Fight The Cuts"
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7" (1982)
CNT Records [CNT 008]
United Kingdom

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Front cover of the This Sporting Life single
This Sporting Life
Fight The Cuts
Notes: Hey, there's no B side: "Fight the Cuts" is on side AA and was recorded in "the basement of BOSSA NOVA ESTRADA Leeds December 1977" and restored by Ken Giles in August 1982. This version of "This Sporting Life", on side A, was recorded at Spaceward Studios, Cambridge, in April 1981. Both songs later appeared on The Mekons Story; "This Sporting Life" also appeared on UK and German 12" EPs of the same name in 1981/82. Writing on inner hub: "Support the hospital workers" and "We wuz robbed".

Lineup: Jon, Tom, Pete Barker, Kevin, Mark (for "This Sporting Life"); Jon, Tom, Ros Allen, Kevin, Mark, Andy Corrigan, Kenny Moore, and Adrian Collins performed "Fight"

Updated September 27, 2002

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