Bernard Butler
Kit Aiken, Uncut, December 1999
BERNARD Butlers had a bad back. According to his osteopath, he has songs hidden in his shoulders, "Hes really lovely, a natural healer. Guitar posture, apparently." Duly straightened out and "made feel a whole lot better spiritually", he appears more than equipped to deal with home country indifference to his current output.
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