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Wet Wet Wet, live

Mat Snow, NME, 8 February 1986

TONIGHT WILL be one of Wet Wet Wet's last gigs before they step from cultdom's pastel spotlight into the full glare of major-league pop-stardom. Only months now separate them from rubbing turntables with the likes of Paul Young and the Daytime Playlist crew. Enjoy these pre-coital months, lads; it'll never be as good again. Meanwhile, their label-mates on Glasgow's Precious Organisation, Kick Reaction, are limbering up to skip into their vacated soul-shoes...

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