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The Band Of Holy Joy: The Loneliness Of The Late Night Drinker

Don Watson, NME, 20 December 1986

1986 was the year that Englishness made a comeback, and no one caught its multi-faceted moods of gloom and nostalgia better than THE BAND OF HOLY JOY. Max and Johnny accompany DON WATSON for a midnight prowl through the heartland of our gutted welfare state.

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