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04/06/2026

I hope you've all had a lovely break from the relentless Facebook spamming in the run-up to our 25th anniversary show at The Baths. Normal service will resume shortly.

But first, a big thank you to everyone who came along to celebrate/commiserate with us on the 23rd May. And of course, thanks to the bands. We were treated to three top quality turns from Rev Simpkins/Pissabed Prophet, Pound Land and Earth Mother Fu**er.

Thanks also to the staff and volunteers at The Baths. It's always a pleasure to work with such a friendly and professional team at a venue that makes everyone feel welcome. A big shout-out to Gareth on the desk for the exceptional front-of-house sound, and to Lewis for going full Bon Jovi on the lights.

Too many highlights to list, but Adam's dancing deserves a special mention. He's pretty spry for someone nearly as old as I am. Video evidence captured by Dave Turner of EMF.

Tonight's the night* - Pound Land, Pissabed Prophet and Earth Mother Fu**er at The Baths in Ipswich for the antigen rec...
23/05/2026

Tonight's the night* - Pound Land, Pissabed Prophet and Earth Mother Fu**er at The Baths in Ipswich for the antigen records 25th anniversary party.

7.30pm - Doors open
8.00pm - Rev Simpkins / Pissabed Prophet
8.50pm - Pound Land
9.45pm - Earth M*ther Fu**er
11.00pm - Music curfew

Last train to Colchester/London is at 11.22pm. Ipswich train station is an 18-minute walk from The Baths, according to Google Maps. Event details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/953737937160204/

Tickets available on the door.

* If you are reading this on Saturday 23 May.

It’s the news music lovers around the world have been waiting for. After 42 years in the business, EMF frontman Bruce Ma...
17/05/2026

It’s the news music lovers around the world have been waiting for. After 42 years in the business, EMF frontman Bruce MacGregor has finally reached retirement age.

But sadly, the Employment Equality (Repeal of Retirement Age Provisions) Regulations 2011 prohibit employers from automatically retiring employees simply because they have reached state pension age.

So, we are obliged by law to continue to offer him opportunities to perform in public. His next engagement will be at the antigen records 25th anniversary party at The Baths in Ipswich on Saturday 23 May, with Earth Mother Fu**er. Pound Land and Rev Simpkins.

All proceeds from the concert will go towards funding a bespoke package of care provided by the event’s sponsor. Attendees can be reassured that, like many of our beloved childhood pets, Bruce will spend his final years enjoying life on a farm in the countryside.

Event details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/953737937160204

11/05/2026

A band once described as "like Rev Simpkins on steroids" - the Pissabed Prophet power trio bring the party to the antigen records 25th anniversary show at The Baths in Ipswich on 23 May.

Event details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/953737937160204

So nice to be sent photos from people modelling our EMF 'Do Not Resuscitate' wristbands (free with every copy of their n...
09/05/2026

So nice to be sent photos from people modelling our EMF 'Do Not Resuscitate' wristbands (free with every copy of their new album on vinyl or CD).

Our legal team has asked us to point out that these wristbands are for entertainment purposes only. If you are a paramedic responding to an EMF fan in cardio-pulmonary distress, please check their medical notes before withholding CPR.

In 1977, Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan compiled the music for the golden records included on board Voyagers 1 and 2, in the ...
08/05/2026

In 1977, Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan compiled the music for the golden records included on board Voyagers 1 and 2, in the hope that one day extraterrestrials would be able to experience the richness of human musical diversity.

In 2025, thousands of Amazon drivers spent every day pi***ng in bottles to help Jeff Bezos send Katy Perry into low Earth orbit, to show curious aliens how far we’d advanced as a species in the intervening 48 years.

If antigen records ever secures the federal funding and tax incentives to send music into space, we’re going to launch Mugged by Pound Land into the void. It is a near-perfect encapsulation of post-Brexit Britain that will act as a stark warning to all space-faring alien cultures.

You can hear this warning in person on Earth at The Baths in Ipswich on 23 May, when Pound Land will be performing selections from Mugged in the guise of entertainment. Also on the bill, the one-and-only EMF and Rev Simpkins – Pissabed Prophet. Event details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/953737937160204

Great news for anyone who values their personal space at gigs - we've sold a mere 10% of our advance ticket target for t...
06/05/2026

Great news for anyone who values their personal space at gigs - we've sold a mere 10% of our advance ticket target for the antigen 25th anniversary show at The Baths, with just over two weeks to go. Most promoters would probably cancel the event at this stage, but abject commercial failure lies at the heart of the antigen records operating model and the show will go on!

The event is a triple celebration, also marking the release of the debut studio album by Earth Mother Fu**er and the long overdue retirement of their frontman Bruce MacGregor.

We have very special guests travelling down from the midlands - Pound Land. "They make Flipper sound like The Osmonds" according to one radio listener. And the vicar of Jaywick himself - Rev Simpkins.

Help Bruce reach his retirement goal and be part of this historic occasion: https://www.facebook.com/events/953737937160204

Bruce MacGregor – skeletal sexagenarian frontman with the one-and-only EMF of Ipswich – reaches retirement age this year...
29/04/2026

Bruce MacGregor – skeletal sexagenarian frontman with the one-and-only EMF of Ipswich – reaches retirement age this year. Sadly for music lovers, he is not retiring from making music. But he will need to supplement his state pension with more than just the passive income from his portfolio of properties.

If you would like to support Bruce in his dotage, you can purchase a copy of his new album, the aptly titled Do Not Resuscitate, from the antigen records Bandcamp page this Friday and 100% of the revenue will be channelled into our offshore holdings.

Or you can buy yourself a ticket to watch a pensioner perform for cash on 23rd May at the antigen anniversary/Bruce retirement party at The Baths in Ipswich. Everyone is welcome.

25/04/2026

Recent footage has emerged of Pissabed Prophet shot by an audience member on the night Matt’s brain exploded.

The band was captured in action at the Shacklewell Arms on 27/11/23, only hours before Rev Simpkins was rushed to the ICU, where he began speaking in tongues and hallucinating squirrels. In the 15th century, these miraculous revelations would have led to Matt being revered as a visionary and maybe even being beatified as a saint after his death. But these days, we medicalise everything, and it was diagnosed as aseptic meningitis.

It would be the first of three extended periods in hospital with what proved to be a life-threatening reaction to the immunotherapy treatment he was receiving for stage 4 cancer.

This meant Pissabed Prophet were unable to complete their first UK tour, missing out on the mega-launch of their Apple EP at Three Wise Monkeys in Colchester, and fatally compromising the marketing campaign for their new record. But it would be petty and churlish to keep reminding him of that.

Two and a half years of recovery later, Father Matt is now the vicar of Clacton St. James and Jaywick St. Christopher. He has yet to encounter Nigel Farage, but has politely reprimanded Zack Polanski, and refused an invitation to appear on Newsnight. However, he has accepted our invitation to perform at the antigen 25th anniversary party on 23 May at The Baths in Ipswich, where he will be celebrating his new lease of life with a set of Pissabed Prophet and Rev Simpkins classics.

For 35 years, the Grapevine Magazine has been an East Anglian institution, a listing guide for every noteworthy event in...
23/04/2026

For 35 years, the Grapevine Magazine has been an East Anglian institution, a listing guide for every noteworthy event in the region’s cultural calendar. If you found yourself stood up by your mates in a Suffolk pub, you could reach a copy and within minutes know the exact location of every pub rock covers band in the county. It was the go-guide for HMRC enforcement officers or anyone needing to serve a child maintenance order.

Alas, the tide of modernity has swept away the much-loved magazine, but a web version still exists online for anyone needing to find the whereabouts of Soap Your Auntie, Shy at the Chemist or the Ca****oe Raiders on any given evening.

They’ve published a great feature on the antigen records 25th anniversary gig at The Baths, at which we will be launching the long-awaited studio debut by Ipswich’s one and only EMF. It's an album 38 years in the making, as the headline we gave them exaggerates for dramatic effect*.

In an era of user-generated content and shameless self-promotion, it’s a joy to read such a thoroughly researched and entirely impartial overview of our work. I couldn’t have written it better myself. Delve below to navigate your way to the article itself, or just cut out the middleperson and get yourself a ticket.

* It only took them two days to record and five years to mix.

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