Catching Jim O'Rourke's Drift
Ben Thompson, Independent, The, January 2002
THE CARDIGAN-clad figure of Jim O' Rourke looks up from his Holiday Inn coffee. "I'm a nightmare," he warns, pointing with a smile to a cluster of Domino Records executives; "just ask them".
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