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Verve: Mill At The Pier, Wigan

Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 24 October 1992

IT'S USUALLY Sunday supplement journalists who go to Wigan to hang around the notorious King Street area, sneer at the pier, observe the fights in the taxi rank and then go back to Blackheath to write patronising articles about our lovely womenfolk and their appetite for fun.

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