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The Beautiful South: Vive La Slight Difference!

Mat Snow, Q, January 1991

AS THE Beautiful South's single ‘A Little Time’ slips down the UK charts from Number 1, in Germany it's starting to pick up sales. And so, after a spot of light rehearsal for the pre-Christmas British tour, the band pile out of their playing space above a pub in one of our bleaker industrial neighbourhoods and into cars en route for the airport and, eventually, a German TV studio.

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