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Nothin' But A Stranger In This World: Van Morrison and Astral Weeks

Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, November 2001

THE FITFUL BRITISH SUMMER of 2001 is ending not with a whimper but a bang – a burst of Bank Holiday heat that's got everyone in the merriest of moods. What better place to be on this amber August evening than Bishop's Court, the dreamily bucolic venue for England's annual "Bishopstock" festival of, mostly, blues and soul music.

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