A DIY label, owned by Steve Hall and used as a vehicle for recordings by him under the names of 'The Afflicted' or 'The Afflicted Man'. It released five records during the period 1979-82, two of them being albums and the other three singles; they shared the same AFF-0 numerical series. A third album, 'I'm Off Me 'Ead' had a matrix number of AFF-5 but was issued on the Human Records label with the catalogue number MAN-1. Only the first of the records came out in our decade, and that didn't squeeze in by very much: the single 'I'm Afflicted' b/w 'Be Aware' by The Afflicted (AFF-1) appeared in November 1979. As can be seen from the picture which Nicholas Hough has kindly supplied, it had blank white labels which were rubber stamped with very basic details.
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