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End of the special relationship
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— 23 Apr 2000 Tom Comment

End of the special relationship: Barney Hoskyns on why British music doesn’t sell in America right now. Takes several paragraphs to reach the inevitable conclusion, “because it’s rubbish”. And why are Radiohead such an excepti[…]

Black Box Recorder
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— 23 Apr 2000 Tom Comment

Black Box Recorder – there’s a new pair of articles up about them on the main site: a live review from David S and a thing by me which is actually nothing much to do with the band at all.[…]

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The Magic Mill
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— 23 Apr 2000 Tom 18 comments

My first encounter with the exotic was on the Magic Mill at Thorpe Park, a South-East England theme park which from appearances had originally been based around a cramped zoo or city-farm set-up. At some point in the late 70s it had seemingly panicke[…]

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