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CocoRosie: Scala, London

Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, December 2005

THE BLOKE in the audience isn't impressed. "Where's CocoRosie then?" he shouts. "Who the fuck are you?" Just about visible to the crowd on ground level, sisters Bianca and Sierra Cassady – one sporting a trucker's cap with a Phantom Of The Opera-style mask slung over it, the other in a Tupac t-shirt with a blue scarf tied around her head – bristle in response. "CocoRosie is in your imagination," declares one. "Go listen to the album," sniffs the other. The crowd brays its appreciation, but the bloke isn't satisfied. "This is a scam!" he yells. 

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