Your Poptimism Podcast needs YOU!

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Jun 07

Your Poptimism Podcast needs YOU!

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First of all enormous thanks to Alan for providing us with top tunes over the last year!

The Podcast will be back next week – after the new management return from a certain gathering in Somerset – so now is your chance to submit some superlative songsmithery. Without your contributions the podcast will be 0 seconds long, so please remember to send your mp3s to poptimism.podcast@googlemail.com. Cheers!

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