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They weren’t active for too long, eventually disbanding in 2002 after the release of their first and final record, Any Other City. Embarking on a tour with Belle and Sebastian and playing countless shows across the country, the band are surprisingly pretty undocumented; a few fuzzy live videos recorded at the now closed Beat Room in Glasgow resurfaced on YouTube a few years ago, but give or take a handful of interviews and a live recording from a show in Sydney (which was finally pressed to vinyl by Rough Trade for Record Store Day 2025), there’s not much out there.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLove Trinity began its life as a one-off. Originally released as a single for Trifekta Records in Australia to promote an upcoming tour for the group, it sort of slipped through the cracks of the core Life Without Buildings discography. 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