The Proclaimers Shout It Out
Simon Witter, i-D, May 1987
"WE WERE playing a festival in Edinburgh and this guy comes up to us and says 'You were great!'. It was the guy behind the counter at our local DHSS, so we quickly went 'We're not getting paid for this!' and he said 'It's okay, I'm off duty'."
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