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Neil Cooper
Sep 07, 2023
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For Art’s Sake - From Edinburgh and Sheffield with Love

The perceived pretentions of art school bands would later be light heartedly mocked in ‘My Perfect Cousin’, a 1980 single by Derry sired John Peel favourites, The Undertones. Like The Ramones and The Rezillos, The Undertones were signed to Sire Records, and the Irish quintet retained a scrappy urchi…

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