Lost In Transmutation: Kevin Shields
Peter Murphy, Hot Press, February 2004
SAIGON. Shit, Im still only in Saigon . . . okay then, Camden. And no, were not throwing Martin Sheen shapes in the mirror, but sitting on a hotel bed, poring over the case history, the dossier if you like, of the Colonel Kurtz of Irish rock n roll.
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