3Mustaphas3: Fez Fair!
Mark Sinker, NME, 10 September 1988
2005 note: Collapse of post-comm Balkans into internecine war hinted at, kinda. Well, only if you read WAY between the lines I think. Another submerged manifesto, for the kind of thing I wanted Wire to do. The 'Other Voices' section was invented purely to get a piece about Ut into NME (which, when it ran, wasn't very good). It was, like all narrowcasting, a fairly bad idea.
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