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Camper Van Beethoven: Electric Ballroom, London

Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 24 March 1990

SWOOPING IN from a nostalgic and sun-nourished California that never even existed, Camper Van Beethoven touch down in London with mature and majestic grace. In all-American lumberjack shirts and fiercely normal haircuts, the Campers are a college reunion combo on board a propeller-powered seaplane that took off sometime before Woodstock and still hasn't come down.

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