Throwing Muses, The Pixies: Mean Fiddler, Harlesden, London
Keith Cameron, Sounds, 16 April 1988
"WHAT ABOUT those Pixies motherf***ers, huh?" enquired a grinning Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses. She referred to the previous band and no one in a packed Mean Fiddler could argue with her.
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