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The Hoosiers: Shepherds Bush Empire, W12

Lisa Verrico, The Times, 6 March 2008

"DID YOU know you are in the presence of an award-winning band?" teased the singer Irwin Sparkes, before dedicating a defiantly ELO-influenced new number, 'Swear It on Your Life', to the NME, which named the Hoosiers Worst Band at their annual awards last week.

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