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Fine Young Cannibals

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Wedged Down The Throat: Fine Young Cannibals

Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 14 December 1985

ONE OF THE truly Great Bores Of Today is the "politicised" pop star who remarks that what was really bad about the riots (or whatever) ...

Them's Fine Young Cannibals There!

Interview by Karen Schlosberg, Creem, July 1986

"WE'RE THE hip uncles, that's what we're going for," says Roland Gift when asked to describe the Fine Young Cannibals' image. "All the kids can ...

Fine Young Cannibals: Stay fresh and keep 'em hungry

Interview by Lucy O'Brien, The Guardian, 8 February 1989

Roland Gift tells Lucy O'Brien about the Fine Young Cannibals' appetite for success ...

Fine Young Cannibals: The Raw And The Cooked (London LP/Cassette/CD)

Review by Sean O'Hagan, New Musical Express, 11 February 1989

WHERE'S THE BEEF? ...

Chewing the Fat with the Fine Young Cannibals

Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 20 April 1989

A FEW WEEKS before the release of The Raw and the Cooked, Fine Young Cannibals' new album, Roland Gift and Andy Cox are in New ...

Hands On! Fine Young Cannibals

Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, March 1990

They turned down top photographers, refused advertising offers, ignored invitations from the Hollywood glitterati (bar a dinner-date with Madonna). They scrutinized every detail of their ...

Roland Gift: Not the man he used to be

Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 7 October 1999

Roland Gift tells Dave Simpson why he has no reason to mourn the demise of the Fine Young Cannibals ...

Fine Young Cannibals: Leadmill, Sheffield

Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 13 December 2002

IN 1999, ROLAND Gift told The Guardian: "I'd rather shovel shit than live off my past." Three years on, as the lost soul singer reactivates ...

see also Beat, The

see also Roland Gift

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