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McFly: Wolverhampton Civic Hall

Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 24 September 2004

SIGNS IN WOLVERHAMPTON CIVIC HALL READ: "Tonight's concert will be very loud. Ear defenders are available on request." The danger comes not from McFly but from their tinnitus-inducing audience. If Wolverhampton's demographic is anything to go by, the squeaky foursome's fans are almost exclusively 14 years old and female, with the lung capacity of Charlotte Church. All the lads on stage can do is turn up, grin incessantly and pray for salvation against perforated eardrums.

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