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Dot Allison in the Afterglow

Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 1999

FAR BE IT from anyone to laugh at a label which drops the Chemicals and Andrew Weatherall, and keeps Scotland's answer to St Etienne instead, but when Dot Allison says she was glad to escape from the Boys Own label, following its absorption into a big bad major, that's one of the reasons why.

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