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Jim Irvin, MOJO, September 1997
FEBRUARY 1992. The Melody Maker's young Oxford correspondent pops up Cowley Road to the old Co-Op dining hall, a glamour-free venue – small stage at one end, Formica-topped table with a barrel of Red Stripe clamped to it at the other – where The Candyskins are headlining with support from another local bunch with the unappetising name On A Friday.
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