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Fool's Gold: The Cockpit, Leeds

Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 4 May 2010

FROM VAMPIRE WEEKEND TO FOALS, afrobeat has become a part of pop lately, but there's nothing quite like this. Fool's Gold aren't — as one hapless punter had imagined — a Stone Roses tribute but a fearsome Los Angeles-based afropop band.

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