Mark Eitzel with Peter Buck: Union Chapel, London
Sylvie Simmons, Rolling Stone, 1997
AN OLD CHAPEL in Islington, North London, Prime Minister Tony Blairs old hood. The stage is set up around the pulpit; the audience sits in pews: a suitably sacred setting for He Who Sits On The Right Hand Of Michael Stipe.
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