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Mansun: Brighton Beach, Leeds

Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 12 March 1997

ONCE UPON a time, modernists (ha!) fought running battles with rockers along the seafront at Brighton; now their descendants congregate at Brighton Beach in, um, Leeds, where the only sand is in a fire-bucket.

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