Pete Doherty: A Dandy In Alto Minho
Alvaro Costa, Jose Manuel Simoes, Rock's Backpages, September 2007
PAREDES DE COURA, Portugal: a sleepy, lush village, somewhere northwest of Porto. Every summer, for five days, Coura moonlights as the sunnier, less muddy and much smaller Portuguese Glasto.
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