Kenickie: Electric Ballroom, London
Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 20 June 1998
HEY, LITTLE rich girl, where did you go wrong? The 'Nick should never have moved to London. Left home, met all these glittery chuckleheads, built guest-lists longer than the A1. D'ya remember those first two astonishing singles? Those interviews where it was like finally finding a band as fast and as funny and as spot-on as your mates, a tribe, a gang, a strength in small numbers and a lone den?
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