News:
| Grubby Mitts Christmas Show |
27 Dec 2011 Grubby Mitts will be headlining the last ever God Don't Like it night at the Lexington this Friday 30th December. God don't like it has supported the band over the last year and the Mitts are delighted to have been asked to play the last night of the four night closing party. Do come along to wave a fond farewell to GDLI. Support from the excellent David cronenburg's wife. £5 entry, doors from 8pm. |
| New Single from Ice sea Dead People |
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30 Oct 2011 New single "ultrasilence" out now from ice, sea, dead people. You can download the single for free, and see the new video, by visiting: ultrasilence.co.uk. The next chance to see the band live is a the buffalo bar in london this halloween, 31st October. |
| A Message from Ricky Leach Regarding the End of the World |
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20 Oct 2011 My poor lost soul, As you will know doubt be aware, the televangelist Harold Camping's postponed prediction of the rapture, God's final judgement, will be occurring at some point today. To celebrate the fact the 5-track EP Yonic Totem will be available to download for free all day today. What better way to spend your final moments on this mortal coil! This is also the first time the album has been available as high quality mp3s, and also includes a document of hypertext lyrics and liner notes, plus pictures of the physical artwork made from prettily block-printed old gramophone record sleeves. Assuming we survive the judgement, or that all infrastructures are intact when everything goes all amazing and heavenly, then the record will be available to download in future through itunes, emusic, spotify and amazon, however, for this we will charge you. Yonic Totem has so far only been available in limited-edition handmade physical copies. However, what you won't get in any virtual copies of the album, apart from a nice-looking tangible commodity, will be a cover of Scott Walker's The Seventh Seal. That's only available on the physical CD version through the online Lost Toys store. You can buy that today too, and of course we at Lost Toys would appreciate a few fivers to vainly plead our maker's mercy with, like the mammon-drenched heathens we have become. Be good, although it's too late now Ricky Leach Celebrate the end of the world and Download Yonic Totem for free LTR Adds: Please Note this album is available free for 24 hours only. should the end of the world not occur today, we'll remove the link and you'll be able to buy the physical copy from the Lost Toys shop, or download the album from Monday 7th November. See you in hell. |
| Johnny Parry Massive concert |
13 Oct 2011 Massive johnny parry concert. Islington assembly halls. complete chamber orchestra. the most over-the-top, melodramatic , genre defying concert so far. not to be missed by anyone. Support from Binary Band and Buzzard Lope. Tickets: see tickets. |
| Ice Sea Dead People - Special Bedford Show |
27 Sep 2011 Special Bedford gig by ex-local noise makers. Friday 30th at the Pad. Expect to have your bones dislodged. Also: Ice Sea Dead People have just returned to the studio to record their follow up to Teeth Union in the form of an EP. Possibly called Ultra-silence. More details to follow. |
| Black Maria Memorial Fund... New Album on Lost Toys |
20 Aug 2011 Long time friend of everyone on Lost Toys, Black Maria Memorial Fund, release their third album, ...Loves You, on August 21st. The first album for the label it sees Johnny Parry take control of the production, with all the tracks recorded as live sessions in a small church in rural Bedfordshire. Fresh from their tour of Germany and Holland with Buzzard Lope BMMF will play a special album launch hosted by Musicborn at the Willmington Arms in clerkenwell, London, this Sunday 21st August. Doors are at 7 and entry is £5. Buzzard Lope and Johnny Parry will both be performing sets in support, which should make it quite an evening. We hope to have the record available in physical format through the ltr shop soon (next week possibly) and it will be available everywhere digital (itunes, amazon etc) in two weeks from now (5th September). Temporarily the best way to get a copy, either download or digital, is through their bandcamp page For More info on the Black Maria Memorial Fund, as well as downloads of the last two great albums, visit their Website |
| Chewy Cosmos Thingly Time: Andy Holden at Kettle's Yard |
25 May 2011 Andy Holden at Kettle's Yard Cambridge 14th May - 10th July Largest solo exhibition to date of Andy Holden (Grubby Mitts). Includes many of the ongoing bodies of work such as plaster stalagmites, gramophone records melted into bowls, collages made from make-up articles in magazines, bronzes, ceramics, music, posters, paintings and a home made library. There are several performances to accompany the exhibition, including Lecture on Bird Song (18th June) and Six short works in time (9th July). Full Details: Kettle's Yard Website |
| IMPOSSIBILITY OF CROWS |
18 Apr 2011 This thusday 21st April: the impossibility of crows, at cafe oto, Dalston, London. A memorial concert for the precarious beauty that was Dan Cox (posing above with the Grubby mitts, right hand side of the picture), and the launch of the record, dedicated to Dan, To a Friend's House. All welcome, all money to London Cycling charity. Support from Johnny Parry Chamber Orchestra. Advanced booking recommended, see upcoming shows for full details. |
| Grubby Mitts + Ricky Leach at Milton Keynes Gallery |
20 Mar 2011 A mentioned on Tom Robinson's 6music show on Friday Grubby Mitts + Ricky Leach will be playing Milton Keynes Art Gallery on Thursday 31st March, starting at 7pm. It's free to get in, part of the scratch night programme. Full Details here. |
| Coming Soon... |
16 Mar 2011 Faith is what you need, in the age of stone...put your hands together... Lost Toys Records are very excited to welcome LONGMEG to the label. A full album coming late Summer. Transmogrifying out of the genius and joy that was Jack too Jack, recent shows include Tate Modern's 10th Birthday celebration... More info soon... |
| Lecture on Bird Song - TATE Britain |
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27 Feb 2011 Andy Holden and Peter Holden Performance at tate Britain this friday night, 4th March, as part of Art Now Live at Late at Tate. Starting at 7.30pm, free entrance but limited seats. Andy Holden and his father, the ornithologist, peter holden, discuss bird song. The presentation is structured around a series of six walks taken over the previous week. also Features live music from Buzzard Lope. |
| Grubby Mitts at The New Art Gallery Warsall 20th Jan |
10 Jan 2011 Grubby Mitts are playing at the New Art Gallery in Warsall on thursday 20th Jan. It is a special show for the opening of the exhibition life of the mind: love, sorrow, obsession, curated by Bob and Roberta Smith. the exhibition features amongst others: tracy emin, Sir Jacaob Epstein, daniel johnston, louise bourgeois and vincent van gogh. Entrance, as far as we know, is free. 7.30pm start. Also of note this week is the BruderKreig Sound System at the ICA this Thursday 13th Jan, hosted by Edwin and Kieron of Longmeg (who will be joining Lost Toys this year) as well as Mark Leckey and Steve Claydon. It will also feature a short performance of a new piece by andy holden of the Grubby Mitts. |
| Buzzard Lope + Grubby Mitts, Luminaire this Friday 19th |
14 Nov 2010 Don't miss the Buzzard Lope Album launch this coming Friday at the Luminaire in Kilburn (still our favorite venue). A double bill with the Grubby Mitts, hour long sets from each band. Stage Times: Buzzard Lope 8.45 - 9.45 Grubby Mitts: 10.15 - 11.15 £6 on the door. Should be a great night...Daybreak is finally released out into the wild. |
| Andy Holden Performance in Athens |
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10 Oct 2010 For the opening of the new cultural centre, the Hub, in Athens, Andy Holden (Grubby Mitts) arranged a piece for 12 car stereos - which blocked the road beneath his new sculpture, Athens IV. The sculpture is part of the exhibition Props, events and Encounters which runs until 1st November. Images of the performance, titled, "Athens, this morning I woke up Humming Tina turner" posted below.  
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| Be Glad for It's now over |
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17 Sep 2010 Just to say a big thank you to all those who performed at Be Glad For the Song Has No end at Wysing arts Centre this weekend and to all those who came along to watch. It was a remarkable day. Thank you x Novembers issue of Art Monthly contains an extensive review of the festival. The Independent also had an article on the festival and art/music exploration talking to Martin Creed, Bob and Roberta Smith and Andy Holden. You can read the full article here. |
| Teeth Union pre-order and t-shirt bundle now available!!! |
08 Sep 2010 We have copies of the debut album by Ice, Sea, Dead People - 'Teeth Union' - in our online store available for pre-order now!!! There's also a t-shirt + album bundle deal for just £12, meaning you get a t-shirt for just £4 extra!!! The t-shirts were all created and designed by the band themselves and normally sell for £10. Album pre-orders will be posted the week before the release date (27th September) on week commencing 20th September and will also be available at the band's Rough Trade East in-store on the 23rd of September. Head to the Lost Toys store now to get your copy!!! |
| A week and a bit till Wysing |
02 Sep 2010 Less than two weeks to go until Be Glad For The Song Has No End at Wysing arts Centre. Still some tickets left, both for camping and for the bus from London. Be sure to book one soon. Two out of three stages are up...and the big boulder stage is getting there slowly... It's an amazing line up. Do all you can to be there. To book tickets click here. Tickets available through we got tickets and the cambridge junction website. The festival has recently been previewed in the wire, the Independant, Art Monthly and various other places. |
| Here Comes Teeth Union |
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02 Sep 2010 Ice Sea Dead People's Debut LP, Teeth Union is out on 27th Sept. A few gigs before then, including Offset Festival this weekend and one to look forward to in the home town of Lost Toys, bedford. Poster below - a taster of the album sleeve to be on the record store shelves shortly. We are also thrilled that teeth union will be distributed through cargo 
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| Buzzard Lope Album Launch Announced! |
22 Aug 2010 Exciting times...finally an official release date for Buzzard Lope and the album "Daybreak", published by RAK and released on Lost toys. A bunch of dates in the lead up so no excuse not to catch the expanded line up live. the Launch will be at our spiritual home, the Luminaire, London on Nov 19th. Dates so far confirmed: 14 aug: cafe 1001, london 17 sep: hare & hound, birmingham 22 sep: undersolo, camden, london, 10 oct: luxe, spitalfields, london 11-17 oct: germany tour (check back for for full details - 4 dates confirmed) 21 oct: roadtrip, hoxton, london nov 19: daybreak album launch luminaire, kilburn, london |
| Ice, Sea, Dead People News!! |
01 Aug 2010 Lost Toys to release Ice Sea Dead People's debut album "Teeth Union" on September 27th. There will be a first chance to buy the CD at a Rough Trade East in-store gig on Sept 23rd. See them live at Catch Bar, 22 Kingsland Road this Friday 6th as recommended in this weeks NME! In the mean time here's a video clip from there recent collaboration with Andy Holden at Wysing Arts Centre, "Stalagmite Rock Club, Beerbottle Rock Shop". enjoy! |
| Johnny Parry Chamber Orchestra Three Nights at Old Vic Tunnels |
01 Aug 2010 A very exciting prospect, three nights of Johnny Parry and his Chamber Orchestra at _Drift, Kevin Spacey's 'Old Vic Tunnels', Under waterloo station, 6th, 7th and 8th of August. There are three nights, each with it's own theme: 6th = Love, 7th = the little things in between and 8th = death. click here for more info, support acts and to buy tickets. |
| Grubby Mitts at Hayward Gallery This Saturday |
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16 Jul 2010 The Grubby Mitts will be playing on the roof of the Hayward Gallery outside the Dan Graham Pavillion between 4 and 5pm. There will also be a record stall selling all the records from the Lost Toys Records back catalogue inside the Pavillion which will be open all day. |
| Ricky Leach Album OUT NOW |
17 Jun 2010  New Album from Ricky Leach out now in the Lost Toys Shop Limited to only 100 copies in recycled gramophone sleeves salvaged from Andy Holden's studio floor, prior to a wider digital release later in the year, Yonic Totem is the first Ricky Leach release on Lost Toys Records. The album perversely delves into our long held fascination with the apocalypse, from the black death to the climate crisis - to read more about it click on the lost toys editions button at the top. To purchase one of the limited edition disks - complete with full digital liner notes - click on the lost toys shop. |
| Grubby Mitts at Central Reservation, Bristol |
02 Jun 2010 Rounding off an all day event of music and art events...including Sleeping States, Morris Dancers and Mark Essen's Record Exchange amongst others. If you are in the area do come along to this, should be a lot of fun. 2pm - 1am. Mitts on stage 10PM. £5. |
| Bedford Esquires |
18 May 2010 On Saturday 12th june Lost Toys Records take over bedfords esquires for a special evening of film and music. performances by the johnny parry chamber orchestra, buzzard lope and the grubby mitts £5 entry Films from special guest artists (TBA) will start at 8.30pm First live act will start at 9.30pm 60 Bromham Road, Bedford |
| Andy Holden: Permanent Vacation, Bureau, Manchester |
17 May 2010 Andy Holden: Permanent Vacation Bureau, Manchester 8-29th May As part of the exhibition a new Grubby Mitts tape single is available through the gallery and also through the Lost toys website for £3. It has two new tracks: 1] O.S 2] The Dresser |
| Ricky Leach Album Launch / Lost Toys Film and Music |
10 May 2010.jpg) Lost Toys Night at Roxy Bar and Screen: 25th May starting 8pm, £5 Entry. 128-132 Borough high Street, SE1 1LB. This show is to replace the cancelled show at the Slaughtered Lamb last month, but expanded to include Juneau Projects, live animation narration by Robert Bidder and videos by M4SK 22. Should be a super evening. |
| Lost Toys Records Exhibition at Wysing Art Centre |
22 Apr 2010  The 'lost toys lounge' at Wysing Art Centre near Cambridge is now open. It is part of an exhibition presenting group practices, artist run spaces and collaborations and is running until 23rd May. wysing website. |
| Ricky Leach Album Launch |
11 Apr 2010 This show is to be re-scheduled for May 25th at The Roxy Bar and Screen watch this space for further details. |
| Lost Toys Exhibit at WAC: Presents |
18 Mar 2010 Lost toys will exhibit a display of videos, paintings, posters and records as part of Wysing Art Centre's exhibition Presents. The display will include pieces by Andy Holden (Grubby Mitts), Phil Root (pyramid pyramid), craig sharp (Ice see dead people), Johnny parry and ricky leach. Exhibition runs from April 10th until 23rd May. Open every day 12-5pm. free entry. wysing website. On the afternoon of the opening Lost toys will stage a special performance by Ricky Leach from 5pm-6pm. free entry. |
| Andy Holden Performance at Tate Britain |
15 Mar 2010 Andy Holden Performance this saturday at Tate Britain, includes music for string quartet by the Grubby Mitts and Johnny Parry. |
| Show Without Punch Now Called Buzzard Lope |
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14 Mar 2010 Please note that, after many years of being called show without punch, Roger, raph and adam will now perform under the name Buzzard Lope. Plenty of live shows in the pipe line, especially around London, so do try an catch Buzzard Lope soon. Currently joining the band on stage is Gill on accordion and jason on guitar. New Website, gives a little insight into the new name: www.buzzardlope.com Updates of the site to follow shortly! |
| Lost Toys Badges! |
13 Feb 2010 Lost Toys badges now available in the lost toys shops and live shows for 75p. |
| Andy Holden Exhibition at Tate Britain |
26 Dec 2009 From january 9th until april 10th 2010 andy holden will have a solo exhibition as part of the 'art now' series at tate britain. the show is 'pyramid piece and return of the pyramid piece', a reincarnation of the work first shown in holland at kunstfort vijfhuizen last year. the video 'return of the pyramid piece' has a soundtrack by the grubby mitts. www.tate.org.uk |
| Andy Holden 'Lecture on Migration' |
17 Nov 2009 Lecture on Migration is a work originally performed in 2004. It involves a one hour slide lecture by Peter Holden on the theme of bird migration. This performance coincides with the launch of the new issue of Garage Land Magazine, which includes an interview with Andy Holden about this work and other issues surrounding his art practice. Sunday 29th November, 3-4pm Transition Gallery, 25a Regents Studio, 8 andrews Road, London E8 4QN. Free Entry |
| 28th NOV - Johnny Parry Chamber Orchestra Concert at St. Giles in The Fields |
06 Nov 2009 With support from: Tom Mckean & The Emperors and Tom Hickox 60 St Giles High Street London WC2H 8LG Tickets available from We got Tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/58008 Furthermore! Johnny Parry 'More Love and Death' T-shirts now available in the Lost Toys Shop.   |
| 'Daybreak' by Show Without Punch Out Now! |
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02 Sep 2009 The Long awaited debut mini album by Losttoys finest Show Without Punch is now available to buy in the Lost Toys Shop! Horray! Purchase a copy without delay from the shop or download it from bandcamp. Taster below.  |
| Johnny Parry Chamber Orchestra Dates Announced! |
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02 Sep 2009 Johnny Parry with full Chamber Orchestra will play: Oct 24: Music in Mind 'Festival of Imaginative Music’ Brugge, Belgium, Nov 28: St Giles in the Fields, London (support tbc) 'More Love and Death' has meanwhile been generating glowing reviews: "As Parry has proved it once more with 'More Love And Death', his dark and beautiful and complex world is a work of genius." Daily Vault, 2009 "Parry's poems of morbid carnality and romance are framed by heavy velvet curtains of stylized theatrical gloom" Uncut, 2009 Here is a clip of the last outing with the full Orchestra at the Union Chaple in May: |
| Andy Holden 'Desert Project' Bristol |
09 Jul 2009 Andy Holden: Desert Project (or Hard On In The Desert) Exhibition of new work, including one new Grubby Mitts track cut as a dub-plate inspired by a road trip around the West Coast of America as well as photographs, drawings, and sculptures in wood, bronze and plaster. Runs until August 8th at Works/Projects, Sydney Row, Bristol. Open Friday and saturday 10-6. |
| Grubby Mitts + JP at CUBE CINEMA, Bristol |
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21 Jun 2009 Cube Cinema, Bristol, Saturday 4th July 7.30pm £5ADV /£6 Door Special Grubby Mitts and Johnny Parry visual show at the Cube cinema in Bristol to coincide with the opening day of Andy Holden's solo exhibition 'Desert Project' at the Works/Projects Gallery. www.cubecinema.com |
| Johnny Parry 'More Love and Death' |
29 Apr 2009 Johnny Parry Album Out May 1st! It is now available to order from the Lost Toys Shop for £8. It will be posted out to reach you on May 1st. Tickets stil available for the special one-off show at the Union Chapel on Saturday May 9th, playing new tracks off the album with a chamber orchestra! Not to be missed! |
| Grubby Mitts Dates! |
29 Apr 2009 Does three shows constitute a tour? No. Grubby Mitts will play a few shows to promote their forthcoming EP for the Lost Toys Editions series. Confirmed: Friday 12th June - Cambridge, Wysing Arts, 7.30pm (special show as part of the exhibition 'Performed') Saturday 13th June - Norfolk - Private Show Thursday 18th June - Electro Accoustic Club at Slaughtered Lamb with Juneau Projects + Support. 8pm £5. |
| Johnny Parry at the Union Chapel |
26 Mar 2009 Johnny Parry with Chamber Orchestra! Album Launch 'More Love and Death' Do your very best to be there. Tickets available from: www.johnnyparry.com http://www.wegottickets.com/event/46576f £8 in advance. Book early! Great support acts - this is this 5th birthday celebration of the Electro Accoustic Club, should be an amazing night! |
| Andy Holden Exhibition - London |
26 Mar 2009 The event at the Odeon Cinema, Covent Garden on Thurs 9th April at 6.30pm will feature a string quartet and the music of Johnny Parry and Grubby Mitts. It is free to get in. For more info on the art of Andy Holden see: www.andyholdenartist.com |
| Lost Toys Editions: Betty Frances |
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10 Feb 2009 Lost Toys Records are pleased to announce a special new wing to our operation: Lost Toys Editions. Lost Toys Editions will be a series of EP's by artists, both new to Lost Toys as well as more familiar faces, issued in a strict limited edition hand numbered sleeve designed by the artist in collaboration with Andy Holden. Each limited edition will be launched at an event hosted by Lost Toys and the Electro Accoustic Club. The first in the Series will be by BETTY FRANCES. It will be launched at the Electro Accoustic Club at the Slaughtered Lamb on Tuesday 17th March. More Details to Follow. For a taster: www.myspace.com/bettyfrances <  Above: Betty Frances www.myspace.com/bettyfrances |
| Lost Toys Records Christmas 'do' 20th dec Luminaire |
18 Dec 2008 doors 7.30pm £6/£7 Johnny Parry Trio (with guests ) on at 8pm Show Without Punch 9.30pm The Grubby Mitts 10.30pm Grubby Mitts dj's till 1am blurb from Luminaire website: A EVENING Of WAITS-Y, TALK-TALK-Y, PIANO-LED SAVVY AND ORCHESTRAL-POP COMPOSITIONS. THE SAME BILL GAVE US ONE OF OUR BEST SHOWS OF 2007. WE EXPECT TONIGHT TO BE JUST AS SPECIAL hope to see you there! |
| Grubby Mitts play closing event for exhibition |
25 Aug 2008 See www.kunstfort.nl for directions. |
| Andy Holden Exhibition in the Netherlands |
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30 May 2008 A major exhibition by Andy Holden opens July 14th at Kunstfort Vijfhuizen, NL, running until 24th August. It is the first time the Arts Council funded sculpture and film 'The Return of the Pyramid Piece' will go on show. The exhibition also contains a musical composition Last Stop For the Good Old Times pt 3, a version of the Grubby Mitts track arranged for piano quintet in collaboration with Johnny Parry.  Details: www.kunstfort.nl www.andyholdenartist.com |
| Little Prayers Launch / Lost Toys Night |
12 Jan 2008 Please join us at the Luminaire in Kilburn, easily the nicest venue in London, for another Lost Toys night, this time to Launch the Little Prayers 1-8 (ep) by the Johnny Parry Trio. This is the first of what will be a triptych of CD's by the Johnny Parry Trio. It is also the first set of studio recordings as a three piece rather than Johnny on his own, giving it a very different feel. The 8 'Little Prayers' contain two alternate versions from 'Songs Without a Purpose' and one from Johnny's debute album from 2003 'Break Your Little Heart'. It is also the first set of recordings to surface from the just finished Lost Toys Studio, hidden out in the Bedfordshire countryside. SHOW WITHOUT PUNCH and The GRUBBY MITTS will also perform at the Luminaire in support of a full set by JP Trio. |
Upcoming Shows:
LTR.jpg) As heard on 6music Grubby Mitts New single To a Friend's House is out now, through Lost Toys, and distributed by Cargo. Also available on itunes and spotify. "The Grubby Mitts want to take you on a thoughtscursion, their song the refrain. There is something oddly moving and hypnotic about it. Perhaps it is the sentiment; ambling round to someone else’s house, the promise of homecooked vittles, only a churl could object." (Drowned in Sound) "Deceptively simple but utterly uplifting: an inspiring battle-hymn of honest friendship" (The Folly of Youth) "It's quirky, affectionate, affecting and sounds like The Polyphonic Spree if they'd been brought up in a council house in Croyden."(the Devil Has the Best Tuna)  The Buzzard Lope record is available now in the lost toys records shop or through the normal digital channels. Highly recomended. The band are back in the studio already so fingers crossed for a follow up by the end of the year.  Johnny Parry, More Love and Death, is now released in Germany and Northan Europe though Songs and Whispers and Cargo Europe as well as through the Lost Toys shop.  Teeth Union out now on Lost Toys! Distributed through Cargo and available through all good records stores. Thanks to all those who came to support the launch at Rough Trade East. The Debut album Teeth Union has been getting some great reviews as well as some radio play. In an unlikely twist a band on Lost Toys gets a review in the NME, here's what it said:  
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