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Campag Velocet: Dingwalls, London

Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 3 January 1998

WELL, YOU can sack your Skunk Rock epithets for starters. Sure, there's a movement going on, a rumble that takes in not only the band on show tonight, but also everyone from the Verve to Robbie Williams, tagging the Beta Band, Rolling People and The O en route. Litigation prevents us labelling proceedings as Skag Soul or Pinned Punk, but hold the images in your mind and you're closer to the spirit of what's going on half an inch away from your eyes. No one's jacking-up onstage. But if they wanted to, they could. And would. Big or clever? Who knows. Spectacular? Definitely not.

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