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The trials of being Ed Hamell

Andy Gill, The Independent, 21 April 2014

He thrashes his battered guitar and sings about De Niro and Bill Hicks. But he's lucky to be alive, following a car accident for which he needed 52 staples in his head. Andy Gill meets a very untypical folk singer.

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