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Roisin Murphy: Scala, London

Sophie Heawood, The Times, 22 July 2005

WHEN YOU GO SOLO after spending eight years in a duo, how do you fill that nagging gap beside you on the stage? Easy: take two microphones on with you, use one for singing directly and the other for sampling yourself live — creating your own echo — and use the two stands as ski poles to slalom around the stage with.

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