The Beta Band
Ben Thompson, Daily Telegraph, July 2001
ON ENCOUNTERING a would-be interviewer who'd just been robbed of all his pound coins by a renegade parking meter, the Beta Band of a couple of years ago would have reacted in a very particular way. And after the gales of derisive laughter had died down, one of them would have flagged down a clamper van.
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