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You Are So Busted!

Ian Gittins, The Guardian, May 2003

THE WORDS ARE TALL, luridly colourful and carefully stitched onto a bed sheet, and the sentiment is unambiguous. As Busted guitarist Matt Jay’s eyes alight on the banner being waved by the giggling, pony-tailed 14-year-old girl at the front of the crowd at Wolverhampton’s Civic Hall, he pauses mid-song and performs a cartoon double take. LET ME BLOW YOU, MATTY! the flowery, embroidered slogan declares.

Total word count of piece: 1896

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