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Mark Lanegan: Electric Ballroom, London

Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 5 August 2015

GRUNGE-ROCK survivor Mark Lanegan is not renowned for his rose-tinted view of the world. "You've been torturing me," rumbled the 50-year-old during set opener 'The Gravedigger's Song', backed by a band dressed, as one must be at a Lanegan concert, all in black.

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