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Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 5 March 1999

Down and outstanding ...

Lily Allen, James Blunt, Blur, Coldplay, Florence and the Machine, Genesis, La Roux, Maccabees, The, Laura Marling, Mumford & Sons, Zombies, The, Mark Ronson: The privileged are taking over the arts – without the grit, pop culture is doomed

Comment by Stuart Maconie, New Statesman, 4 February 2015

With school music spending down and the benefits system crippled, the voices of pop have lost their bite. ...

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