Quote #57

The musical equivalent to those children's TV programmes where you make a model of the Battersea power station out of egg-boxes.

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  1. Really needs to be played loud enough to start a civil defence alert.
  2. (On the ridiculousness of choosing a best band ever) It's like saying which is better; Tuesday or a piece of string?
  3. Rip, Rig & Panic have in fact broken up, because some of them live across the road from my mum. Not that they've told me that they've broke…
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  7. One of the highpoints of my weekend in Berlin was the Atonal-Festival, and we weren't there for very long, it was just a lot of people shri…
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