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Mat Snow, Sounds, 4 July 1987
EVER A man of the people, singer-guitarist Bob Mould was observed wandering through a jam-packed crowd, pint in hand and looking a good two stone lighter than last year. But watching him later roar head-down across the stage, he's still a brick shithouse on castors.
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