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Shack: Manchester University

Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 29 July 2003

SHACK'S MICK HEAD has had a few plaudits hurled his way: in 1999 the NME put him on the front cover and billed him as "England's greatest songwriter". In Manchester, midway through his band's first appearance in some time, someone in the audience shouts out: "You're a genius!" Head flinches in mild embarrassment.

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