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Fatima Mansions: The Evil That Men Do

David Burke, Irish in Britain News, 25 October 1991

Just when you thought it was safe to turn on your radio, Fatima Mansions are back with Bertie's Brochures, a bruiser of an EP – not that it's likely to get any airplay, especially the chainsaw massacre rendition of R.E.M.'s 'Shiny Happy People'. David Burke met the rebel with a cause, Cathal Coughlan.

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