This Week I am Mostly Wearing Soren Kierkegaard: Scritti Politti
Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, August 1999
GREEN STROHMEYER-GARTSIDE, to give him his full and slightly fantastical name, is feeling decidedly below-par on this muggy Manhattan afternoon. Clasping a Rolling Rock in a favoured nook in the NoHo neighbourhood of his favourite city, he is recovering from the previous day’s video shoot for 'Tinseltown To The Boogietown', first single from Anomie and Bonhomie, the first Scritti Politti album in eleven years.
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