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Dandy Warhols: Brixton Academy, London

Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 26 May 2003

WELL, HERE'S A THING. An Oregon band best known for adopting the Spinal Tap adage "Have a good time all the time" are enchanting an audience old enough to be their disapproving parents. As the Dandy Warhols skate through their emblematic 'Not if You Were the Last Junkie on Earth', the chorus is belted back by their fiftyish fan club: "Heroin is so passé!" When did this louche foursome, who spent their first three albums treating their bodies like science projects, acquire cross-generational appeal?

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