Fear Eats The Soul
Phil Sutcliffe, Q, July 1995
It also dines on doubt, nibbles the nerve endings and makes a hell of a mess of your trousers. Stage fright, that least welcome of backstage visitors, comes in many guises, few of them hygenic. Phil Sutcliffe uncovers the unexpurgated, frequentlu undigested, history of the pre-gig panic attack.
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