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Pigbag: Dominion, London

Mick Brown, The Guardian, 7 March 1983

PIGBAG surprised everybody, not least themselves, by climbing into the American charts and subsequently the British ones in 1981 with 'Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag' — a ragged and exuberant celebration of the American funk style, rendered with unexpected erudition and humour by a group of students from Bristol.

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