Webstock 2009, Talking About Fear

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This is just for me, you don't have to watch me take my clothes off on the Webstock stage 🫣

Mike Riversdale entry in the Webstock 2009 programme

"Webstock Undressed", filmed by Sigurd Magnusson - Mike Riversdale doing his 8x5

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