Madchester, baggy
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Happy Mondays: Dream, Drink or Die
Interview by Jon Wilde, Sounds, 27 September 1986
HAPPY MONDAYS wear flappy flares and absent grins. They wear tatty beards and talk complete rubbish most of the time. JONH WILDE sifted through the ...
Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 18 April 1987
BLUR. The boys from Happy Mondays skitter past us on the rob down the Arndale. Loose limbs and flares kick dust into everybody's eyes. ...
Happy Mondays: The Rock Garden, London
Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 2 May 1987
HAPPY MONDAYS is where the repetition-repetition-repetition of post-Velvets jangle-drone meets the repetition-repetition-repetition of '70s funk. Imagine a cross between the Blue Orchids and Hamilton Bohannon, ...
Bodines,The, The Fall, Happy Mondays: The Fall/The Bodines/Happy Mondays: International, Manchester
Live Review by John Robb, Sounds, 2 May 1987
STRANGE HOW, these days, any gathering of vaguely well known groups always makes you think of charity and polished consciences. But tonight seemed to be ...
Happy Mondays: "Everything Else Is Foreign, Innit?"
Interview by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 9 May 1987
HAPPY MONDAYS box ears as Factory's rhythm frenzy new boys. DELE FADELE is welcomed to their working week. ...
Happy Mondays: The Monday Club
Interview by Robin Gibson, Sounds, 9 May 1987
More Factory fodder as the label present HAPPY MONDAYS — a group who've festered in Manchester for five years and who are now about to outrage the nation's ...
Happy Mondays: Black Horse, Camden, London
Live Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 16 May 1987
STUMBLING ON like a misdirected sextet of Stretford End psychopaths who've come down for the match and somehow ended up in this scale model of ...
Happy Mondays: Black Horse, Camden, London
Live Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 16 May 1987
STUMBLING ON like a misdirected sextet of Stretford End psychopaths who've come down for the match and somehow ended up in this scale model of ...
The Stone Roses: International, Manchester
Live Review by John Robb, Sounds, 11 July 1987
KING ROCK is still flailing his sweaty head around the world. And Stone Roses are four hip dudes close to his heart, guitars slung low, ...
The Stone Roses: Trunk Call — Romancing The Stone
Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 23 January 1988
Are THE STONE ROSES the likeliest lads in Manchester to step into the huge void left by the implosion of The Smiths? JOHN ROBB reports ...
Interview by Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, 12 November 1988
In Manchester "shit" means great. Yet a year after Happy Mondays' shit debut album, Squirrel And G-Man, some critics have already written off the band. ...
Profile and Interview by Martin Aston, Auckland Star, 1989
IF PUNK WAS the answer to the broad lack of genuine invention in the musical mid-70s, then the Acid House phenomenon answered those who believed ...
Happy Mondays, Kit: University of London Union, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 18 February 1989
LAUGHING MAD ...
The Stone Roses: Bad Loon Rising
Interview by Bob Stanley, Melody Maker, 8 April 1989
CHARTING A SIMILAR COURSE TO HOUSE OF LOVE, SINGER IAN BROWN NOW RECKONS HIS MANCHESTER-BASED BAND'S FORTHCOMING ALBUM WILL PROVE HIS BAND ARE THE BEST ...
Report and Interview by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 15 April 1989
IAN GITTINS JOINS THE MANCHESTER REPROBATES ON THEIR TOUR OF IRELAND AND WITNESSES MAYHEM, MADNESS AND BAFFLING BRILLIANCE. ...
Happy Mondays: Haçi*nda, Manch*st*r
Live Review by Helen Mead, New Musical Express, 20 May 1989
THAT MONDAY FEELING ...
Inspiral Carpets: Surface Tensions
Interview by Bob Stanley, Melody Maker, 20 May 1989
IF THE WEDDING PRESENT ARE SMITHS' FANS SECOND FAVOURITE GROUP, THE INSPIRALS ARE PROBABLY THIRD ON THE LIST. EARLIER THIS YEAR, THE MANCHESTER BAND LOST THEIR SINGER ...
The Stone Roses: Welcome To The Stoned Age
Interview by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 15 July 1989
After four years of Manchester obscurity, the Stone Roses suddenly hit critical and public acclaim with their debut LP. Roy Wilkinson talks to them about ...
The Stone Roses: Northern Soul
Report and Interview by Helen Mead, New Musical Express, 26 August 1989
THE STONE ROSES: BLACKPOOL EMPRESS BALLROOM ...
Inspiral Carpets: Zap Club, Brighton
Live Review by Bob Stanley, Melody Maker, 9 September 1989
SPIRAL TAPS ...
Inspiral Carpets: The Inspiral Carpets: You Batter You Bet
Interview by Bob Stanley, Melody Maker, 16 September 1989
WITH THEIR NEW SINGLE 'FIND OUT WHY' AT NUMBER ONE IN THE INDIE CHARTS, THE INSPIRALS' BID TO RIVAL FELLOW MANCUNIANS HAPPY MONDAYS AND THE ...
The Stone Roses: Stone Roses: Would You Like Some Candy?
Interview by Pat Blashill, Spin, October 1989
Manchester's Stone Roses sing about hate, death, violence and idealism while running a guitar-driven machine. Their single 'Elephant Stone' was produced by New Order bassist ...
The Stone Roses: Alexandra Palace, London
Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 20 November 1989
Failing the acid test ...
The Stone Roses: Bonfire of the Inanities
Interview by Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, 9 December 1989
When The Maker put Ian Brown and his reluctant heroes on the cover six months ago, they were regarded as just another bunch of hopefuls. ...
Interview by Tom Doyle, Smash Hits, 13 December 1989
★ They're four loveable urchins from Manchester who have just shaken the world of pop to its foundations with their "spacey" funk workout 'Fool's Gold'. ★ ...
808 State, A Guy Called Gerald: House-proud
Report by Len Brown, The Observer, 17 December 1989
Techno-beat may have played itself out in the capital, but in Manchester it's the rhythm which has sparked a working-class musical revolution. LEN BROWN reports ...
Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses and The Happy Mondays
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, The Face, January 1990
AFTER A YEAR of underground success, Stone Roses and Happy Mondays crowd into a Top Of The Pops dressing room to celebrate their entry into ...
A Guy Called Gerald, Happy Mondays: Happy Mondays and A Guy Called Gerald Hit the Northern Lights
Report and Interview by Andrew Smith, Melody Maker, 30 March 1990
They came, they saw, they got wrecked and the police were called. Last week, Andrew Smith travelled to Reykjavík with both bands and witnessed scenes ...
Happy Mondays: Homage to Catatonia
Report and Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 31 March 1990
It's just another manic HAPPY MONDAYS, as the Manc scuzz bags-made-good wreak havoc in a nab-it-all frenzy through Europe on their way back to a ...
Happy Mondays: Madchester vibes in the area... it's the Happy Mondays
Interview by Sylvia Patterson, Smash Hits, 4 April 1990
Shaun! Bez! Gaz! The other blokes! It's the Happy Mondays! And they're such rock 'n' roll degenerates they make Guns N' Roses look like Yell! ...
Report and Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 14 April 1990
With The Stone Roses at Spike Island, the Mondays at Glastonbury and numerous other raves, the summer of 1990 should be one to remember. John ...
Happy Mondays: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 21 April 1990
IN THE ARE(N)A! ...
Interview by James Brown, Spin, May 1990
The Stone Roses have taken Britain's pop world by storm, but they've done it on their own terms. ...
Inspiral Carpets: Leeds University
Live Review by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, 5 May 1990
MAGIC CARPETS ...
Inspiral Carpets: Larger Than Life
Interview by Bruce Dessau, i-D, July 1990
Two years ago, Oldham's Inspiral Carpets were just about filling the Cricketers pub in South London. This spring, their album Life sold over 200,000 copies ...
The Stone Roses: Another Early Night
Report and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, July 1990
Stockholm, 4 am: the amateurs are going to bed. Not so the Stone Roses, who are limbering up to go out and dance...like fish. Having ...
Flowered Up: International One, Manchester
Live Review by John Harris, Sounds, 28 July 1990
HEAVY PETAL ...
Charlatans, The (UK): The Charlatans: Sexier Than Shaky?
Interview by John McCready, The Face, October 1990
After one chart hit, The Charlatans are poised on the fringe of either stardom or obscurity. They may be better mannered than Happy Mondays and cuter than the Stone Roses, but will ...
Interview by James Brown, New Musical Express, 6 October 1990
Get your hands on your handbags HAPPY MONDAYS are back. After a long hard summer recording in Los Angeles, the ugliest band in Britain have ...
Donovan, Happy Mondays: Happy Mondays, Donovan: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by John Harris, Sounds, 24 November 1990
FUNNY GAME, this pop business. You can either master its niceties, turn yourself into a big bucks circus and revel in the fact that you'll ...
Interview by Mat Snow, Q, December 1990
IT IS FOUR in the afternoon and Shaun Ryder, the allegedly handsome front man of Happy Mondays, is enjoying his breakfast. Manchester being the only ...
Report by Betty Page, Vox, December 1990
THE MUTANT HERO TURTLES HAVEN'T HIT JAPAN YET, BUT FOR THE MOMENT THE LOCALS ARE OBSESSED WITH A DAFT LITTLE COW WITH SPIRALLY EYES. WE ...
Beats International, The Beloved, Happy Mondays, Primal Scream, The Shamen: U.K. Indie Dance
Report and Interview by Tony Fletcher, Spin, December 1990
THE YEAR 1990 has been one of re-evaluation and subsequent rejuvenation for bands in Britain. Spurred on by the excitement of 1988's acid-house scene and ...
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 18 December 1990
Herod and the grey suits ...
Happy Mondays: Mondays, Bloody Mondays
Interview by Susan Compo, Siren, 1991
As the Happy Mondays prepare to release a live album to counteract/complement the Baby Big Head bootleg, what’s a girl with a book of post-punk ...
EMF: They'd Sell Their Mothers for a Bunch of Bananas!!!!
Interview by Siân Pattenden, Smash Hits, 9 January 1991
One of them won't talk! One of them's got chicken pox! One of them got prosecuted for forging money! They are the 'Mef and they're ...
EMF: Schubert Dip (Parlophone/All formats)
Review by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 4 May 1991
NO DIPPY HICKS! ...
Electronic: Getting Away With It
Interview by John McCready, Spin, July 1991
John McCready probes the northern soul of Electronic, the first English supergroup of the '90s ...
Morrissey: Wake Me When It's Over
Interview by Mark Kemp, Select, July 1991
The Manchester scene is press-created, shallow, turgid, "a shuddering disappointment". Dance music has destroyed everything, it's "totally shocking and revolting". You are Morrissey and 1991 ...
Interview by David Quantick, Spin, September 1991
The real story behind EMF — what the name really stands for, what's up with sampling, and more. DAVID QUANTICK takes a dip into the ...
Happy Mondays: Renting and raving
Interview by James Brown, New Musical Express, 26 October 1991
SHAUN RYDER Is suing News Of The World after they alleged he was a rent boy before he was a singer. JAMES BROWN hears the ...
Happy Mondays: Working Class Zero
Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 16 November 1991
1990 was the year HAPPY MONDAYS could do no wrong. But this year they've made more headlines than records — Ronnie Biggs, editing Penthouse, the ...
New Order, The Smiths, The Stone Roses: For Faç's Sake! 10 Years of the Haçienda
Retrospective and Interview by Push, Melody Maker, 23 May 1992
Few clubs can lay claim to changing the face of music, but THE HAÇIENDA certainly made it smile, giving fledgling acts like The Stone Roses, ...
Happy Mondays: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 19 October 1992
THESE ARE troubled times for the Happy Mondays. Their new album, Yes, Please!, reputedly went over budget and has not had the sales to compensate. ...
Happy Mondays: That Monday Mourning Feeling
Report and Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, December 1992
FOR NO IMMEDIATELY discernible reason, Shaun Ryder is attempting to perform a party trick and failing miserably. He is trying to flick a cigarette (one ...
Charlatans, The (UK): The Charlatans: Return to Madchester
Interview by Max Bell, Vox, March 1994
After a few indiscretions, Manchester's adopted sons The Charlatans are keeping their motor running with the help of Ambient hippy Steve Hillage... ...
Charlatans, The (UK): The Charlatans: The Ballad of Redditch Jail
Interview by Stuart Maconie, Select, April 1994
If a star goes 'inside', it's usually for drugs or drink driving. Not so for Rob Collins of the Charlatans. He went for a quiet ...
Oasis, Whiteout: Respect is Dune: Oasis/Whiteout: 100 Club, London
Live Review by Ted Kessler, New Musical Express, 9 April 1994
THERE IT IS, the new sound of young Scotland, wiggling its corduroy-wrapped hips, pursing its lips and clapping enthusiastically into the mic in a basement ...
The Stone Roses: Stone Roses, phone home
Report by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 31 May 1994
Their debut LP was one of the eighties' finest. Yet five years on we're still waiting for the follow-up. Whatever became of the Stone Roses? ...
The Stone Roses: Second Coming (Geffen/All formats)
Review by John Harris, New Musical Express, 10 December 1994
ANTI-CLIMAX BLUES BAND ...
The Stone Roses: Diary of an LP: the Stone Roses' Second Coming, Part One
Interview by Tom Doyle, Melody Maker, 14 January 1995
After years of rumour and speculation, THE STONE ROSES Second Coming album has finally made it into the shops. TOM DOYLE travelled to Rockfield studios ...
The Stone Roses: Diary of an LP: the Stone Roses' Second Coming, Part Two
Interview by Tom Doyle, Melody Maker, 21 January 1995
Following last week's look at life with THE STONE ROSES during the making of Second Coming, producer SIMON DAWSON takes TOM DOYLE track by track ...
The Stone Roses: Second Coming (Geffen)
Review by Gavin Martin, Vox, February 1995
TIMING CAN count for a lot in the fickle world of pop. When they released their eponymous first album in 1989, just in time to ...
Black Grape, Happy Mondays: Black Grape: Forget It All For An Instant
Interview by Lisa Verrico, Vox, July 1995
After all the pills, thrills and bellyaches, Shaun Ryder felt peckish — so he nipped off to Kentucky Fried Chicken. It took him three years ...
Black Grape: Grape expectations are happily fulfilled
Profile and Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 21 July 1995
Shaun Ryder's new band have made a brilliant album, but it won't impress the Pope. Caitlin Moran explains ...
Black Grape: Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 22 July 1995
BLACK GRAPE are currently the hottest new property in British rock. Even prior to their first single, acres of music press coverage had signalled the ...
Black Grape, Happy Mondays: Black Grape: Shaun Ryder Q+A
Interview by Cliff Jones, The Face, August 1995
Call the cops! Manchester's premier exponent of hooligan rock is back, and sounding better than ever. Cliff Jones grills the Black Grape head honcho on Star ...
Black Grape: It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah! (Radioactive)
Review by Stephen Dalton, Vox, September 1995
YOU KNOW the story. Just over two years ago, it all went pear-shaped for Shaun Ryder. Smack addiction, bitter infighting and musical stagnation finished off ...
Charlatans, The (UK): The Charlatans: Fake That and Party!
Report and Interview by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 16 September 1995
THE CHARLATANS are Number One! That's not a value judgement — it's a fact! This week, the band many had written off as ex-baggy no-marks ...
Happy Mondays, Oasis, The Smiths, The Stone Roses: Madchester: My Baggy Hell!
Memoir by Susan Corrigan, i-D, October 1995
Five years ago an explosion of music, drugs and flares hit a certain Northern city. Now with Oasis, the Stone Roses and Black Grape in ...
Black Grape: Spills 'n' Thrills and Jelly Aches
Report and Interview by Johnny Cigarettes, Vox, November 1995
After breaking and entering the album charts at Number One, BLACK GRAPE decided to drag their scuzzy, 24-hour party on the road. VOX gets over-friendly ...
The Stone Roses: War of the Roses
Interview by Lisa Verrico, The Observer, 3 December 1995
John Squire of The Stone Roses talks exclusively to Lisa Verrico about why the band that almost broke up is back. ...
The Stone Roses: Still Storming Heaven
Interview by Dave Simpson, i-D, January 1996
Stoned and dethroned? This was a strange year for the Roses. Resurrection, personal dilemma, professional discontent... and finally, with their first British tour in five ...
Black Grape: Monster Bunch!: Black Grape: Empress Ballroom, Blackpool
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 13 April 1996
BLOODY HELL. Seven years since The Stone Roses played a legendary show in this very building, and seven days after they split, it's like Madchester ...
The Stone Roses: This is, that was, the Stone Roses
Report by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 30 August 1996
At Reading, the band that wanted to be adored took our love and broke it into little pieces ...
The Stone Roses: The Long Goodbye
Memoir by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, 9 November 1996
After their disastrous performance at this year's Reading Festival, the general consensus was that THE STONE ROSES should do the decent thing and split up. ...
The Stone Roses: Pig's Ear for the Roses — It's All Gone Baggy
Report and Interview by Tom Doyle, Q, January 1997
Farewell, then, the Stone Roses. ...
James: Wrinklie riot — James: Town & Country, Leeds
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 15 March 1997
The fans are older, their knees are shot and they can't dance any more (if they ever could) Dave Simpson joins James's sell-out tour ...
808 State, Happy Mondays, New Order: The Haçienda: Working on a Building of Love
Retrospective by John McCready, The Face, May 1997
It gives us such great joy to sayThat fifteen years ago todayA club was born — the HaçiendaA venue for the maddest bendersSo as you ...
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 24 November 1997
WHEN SHAUN Ryder recently sang Black Grape's comeback hit 'Get Higher', he no doubt afforded himself a mischievous grin. For years, Ryder was the dark ...
Ian Brown: "I'm Ian Brown. I used to be in a band called the Stone Roses."
Profile and Interview by Stuart Bailie, Hot Press, February 1998
It's re-introductions all round, as the Starman embarks on a hazardous solo mission. Stuart Bailie records him taking one giant leap for a man. ...
Ian Brown: Unfinished Monkey Business
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, February 1998
Urbane Gorilla: The Stone Rose, back from the dead ...
Ian Brown, The Stone Roses: Ian Brown: Stone crazy
Report by Jon Savage, The Guardian, 14 May 1998
Ian Brown, former singer in the Stone Roses, has caused a storm in the music press by comparing homosexuals to Nazis. Jon Savage wants to ...
Retrospective and Interview by Jack Barron, Melody Maker, 13 March 1999
It was the scene that produced some of the best bands the world had ever seen. Now, with the Happy Mondays reforming end The Stone ...
Happy Mondays: 192-Hour Party People
Report and Interview by Jack Barron, Melody Maker, 15 May 1999
The Kings of hedonism HAPPY MONDAYS have just completed their triumphant eight-date comeback tour. We joined them on the road to hear about their slightly ...
Charlatans, The (UK): The Charlatans: Music Hall, Aberdeen
Live Review by Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 30 October 1999
BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME ...
Dave Haslam: Manchester, England – The Story of the Pop Cult City (Fourth Estate)
Book Review by Andy Beckett, London Review of Books, 17 February 2000
ON TIB STREET in the centre of Manchester, in the part of the city keen to promote itself as the Northern Quarter, a new delicatessen ...
Retrospective and Interview by John McCready, MOJO, May 2002
ON FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1987, the greatest rock'n'roll band of the decade are playing to no more than 30 people at Planet X, a dark ...
Shaun Ryder: Amateur Night In The Big Top
Review by Jon Wilde, Uncut, August 2003
SHAUN RYDER'S weird artistic odyssey now appears to be forming some kind of pattern. Each new venture hits the ground running and burning with revolutionary ...
Shaun Ryder: What's the story behind Shaun Ryder killing all those pigeons?
Interview by Sheryl Garratt, The Word, August 2003
IN THE LANGUAGE of advertising, Shaun Ryder is an early adopter. A man who tends to walk ahead of the pack and influence those behind ...
Ian Brown, The Stone Roses: Ian Brown: Coming up Roses
Interview by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 14 October 2004
Now established as a successful solo artist, lan Brown finally feels comfortable revisiting the seminal songs of the Stone Roses. Tim Cooper meets an indie ...
The Stone Roses: Stone Roses' Mani (2004)
Interview by Simon Morrison, Rock's Backpages audio, November 2004
Mr. Mountfield on all things Madchester: the Haçienda, the Stone Roses, and the impact of dance music on the scene. Hilarious!
File format: mp3; file size: 9.9mb, interview length: 10' 47" sound quality: ****
Happy Mondays: It's a very happy Monday for Bez
Report by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 24 January 2005
Victory for the man who tried to escape Celebrity Big Brother. ...
Cashier No 9: New band of the week: Cashier No 9
Profile by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 24 June 2008
Under the harsh glare of the spotlight today are a Belfast band who sound so 'baggy' their songs come with a free pair of Joe ...
Retrospective and Interview by Stephen Dalton, The National, September 2009
TWENTY YEARS AGO, the Stone Roses felt like an unstoppable force of nature. These four baggy-trousered young moptops from Manchester were adored all over Britain, ...
Book Review by Keith Cameron, Q, October 2009
Manc-rock, from punk to Oasis, by legendary lensman. ...
This Charming Manchester (Manchester Music, Then and Now)
Overview by Stephen Dalton, The National, October 2009
From Joy Division and The Smiths, to the headliners at next month's Dubai Sound City, Happy Mondays and Doves, Manchester has long been Britain's self-styled ...
Manchester's Music Scene Now Has Everything Everything
Overview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 22 January 2010
Never mind the Buzzcocks... or Stone Roses, or New Order: Manchester can stop trading on its former glories. Three new bands explain how they are ...
Happy Mondays: Manchester Arena, Manchester **
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 8 May 2012
LIKE a musical version of a Civil War re-enactment society, the elder statesmen of Manchester's fabled 1980s rock scene are returning to relive their youthful ...
The Stone Roses: Why I won't be going to see the Stone Roses
Comment by John Harris, The Guardian, 23 June 2012
Since their magical peak in 1990, the band has delivered only disappointment and disaster. So is their latest reunion a chance for them to finally ...
The Stone Roses: The Stones Roses' Made Of Stone is a great document of a reunion on the edge
Film/DVD/TV Review by Jeff Slate, Examiner.com, 3 December 2013
IT WASN'T EASY to be a US fan of the Stone Roses back in their early days. The band were a truly English phenomenon and ...
The Stone Roses: Etihad Stadium, Manchester
Live Review by Rob Hughes, Daily Telegraph, 16 June 2016
THE APPETITE forthe Stone Roses seems to be insatiable, especially around Manchester. The fans came here in their droves for the first of a four-night ...
The Stone Roses: Wembley Stadium, London
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, June 2017
TO WEMBLEY STADIUM for the sell-out Stone Roses show, my first visit to the "new" Wembley, which towers up far higher than the old one ...
The Stone Roses: Wembley Stadium, London
Live Review by Patrick Clarke, Metro, 13 June 2017
Roses prove to be perennial favourites with greatest hits ...
The Stone Roses looked like every lad I'd known and filled me with northern pride
Comment by Laura Barton, The Guardian, 1 May 2019
The Mancunian band released their debut album 30 years ago this week, giving north-west teenagers music to call their own. ...
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