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The Roches: Dominion Theatre, London

Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 24 March 1990

YOU HAVE to understand, weird was not always marketable. Here we have three sisters from New Jersey who've been standing on a stage with acoustic guitars long before Shocked was getting strangled by cops or Tikaram was picking out the notes of 'Suzanne' on a plastic guitar or Chapman was jotting notes during her neighbours' bouts of domestic violence.

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