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Fool Britannia

Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 15 January 1994

Is the current wave of Little Englandism just a mask for the fact that Brit rock is becoming increasingly irrelevant? STEVEN WELLS looks at the way that cultural cringe — a mixture of bravado, hysteria and xenophobia — has been resurrected by the British music business, desperate to believe that it still matters...

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