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This is me, Ruth Miller of the band PO!, but I can't remember which year this was. My aim is to get a big box of photos and stuff scanned in and then try to put it all into some kind of order. Someone has done a Wikipedia page which does include some dates of when we recorded certain songs, so maybe I can use that to help me!    
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po!

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