To Live On In Hearts is dedicated to the memory of Legendary Conflict mainman Colin Jerwood who died at the end of May 2025, just after the band released This Much Remains that has become a fitting swansong and was Conflicts first album of new material in over 20 years. The shell-shocked band decided to fulfil all booked shows apart from one where the promoters said no. Holding a series of final shows in tribute to their fallen leader, who believed that good anarchists don't cancel gigs. They also decided to invite Colin along, using samples alongside slideshows with many pictures and videos of Conflict through the years. This was the show at Bibelot in Dordrecht on 26/09/25 and features Fiona Friel, Gav King, Fran Fearon and Matt Howlett and the spirit and voice of Colin Jerwood. This album is a final artefact and nice way to say goodbye.
The album opens with the bands intro piece The Impossible Soul, atmospheric and explaining the creed they follow, in English and Japanese, the band are itching to unleash the power to remember punk rock, celebrating Cruise missiles with all the righteous fury they can muster, after Colin's sampled song intro. 80's Anarcho punk fury describing A Mothers Milk, this has very Dead Kennedy's guitars, Fiona's impassioned screeds that seem ready to have an argument with Vi Subversa, while using the same arguments for real equality.
There's No Power Without Control a raging rockabilly anarcho punk tirade, with a clear message, explaining how the whole horror show works, why they can never be controlled by the puppet masters who seek to control them.
Just Defy what ever you do never stop fighting the stupidity around us, do what you need to do to become who you want to be, not who they want you to be. Guitar runs and crashing drums. No More Excuses has a great pop punk tune with of course heavy lyrics, almost Sex Pistols style angst, never apologise and always find a way to oppose.
Masters Of The Race? has Colin narrating the intro to this super bitter and righteous screed against the idiocy of claiming to be the master race and all the death and destruction that thinking causes, before Fiona dedicates it to Trump, Putin and Netanyahu who they just want to die. Tough Shit Mickey is slow ruminations on what Mickey means and how that mouse should be eaten, the song builds stormtrooper style, charging raging through a world of profit over life.
Punk Innit is a fight waiting to happen on an Oi! Anthem of fury. From Protest To Resistance aircraft flyover guitar intro, lean mean manifesto on how to live better lives, while tearing down the system of oppression, that has only got worse in the last few years, we must all learn how to fight this insanity. Berkshire appears to know the real meaning of calling the powerful Berks, they are searching for the missing link and grinding away to bring down the Aristocracy holed up in Berkshire.
Whichever Way You Want It drives over a skanking beat, hectoring us for another fucking waste of time, no matter how much fun Gav King is having on guitar. Whatever you do liberate any animals that are being tortured in animal testing sites, break in and free the animals now. This Much Remains an argument for fighting to not be confined to the pits of obedience, you must protest at all the corrupt evil politicians, it has never been more needed in the times we now live in.
Mighty And Superior basically argues that those in power inherently know that most of there actions are wrong, but carry them out none the less, how do we fight to stop this insanity and get everyone to live peacefully and to feed clothe and house all of humanity.
Colin and Fiona then thank everyone for coming out to see them on the intro to Serenade Is Dead, trying to dissipate the hatred that is all around, try to stop the domestic abuse, lean guitars cataloguing a world of self-destruction, of course asking the impossible for us all too stick together and bring down the power structures.
Colin then reads That Other Song a pertinent poem to say goodbye to friends and family, his own eulogy. The band encore with The Collusion Exclusion one last political mantra for tearing things apart and starting again, a new system different from the old system, break legs if you have to but bring about and be that change, if only Colin and his friends were in charge.
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