Mercury Rev: Nice Merc If You Can Get It
Dele Fadele, NME, 4 January 1992
THE FRIDAY afternoon rendezvous with Mercury Rev isn't quite going as planned. Police have cordoned off a large stretch of Harrow Road, West London because of a bomb scare. Apparently, some disgruntled unemployed person has left a suspect device in the nearby dole office in retaliation against bureaucratic failings.
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