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Sylvia says: bring me Nirvana or bring me death

Sylvia Patterson, The Face, November 2000

"WHAT THE FUCK is THAT?!?' shuddered Ali, a ferociously opinionated psychiatric nurse, being forcefully towed into a half-full tent at a summer festival, eyebrows twisting off the top of her head at the cacophonous din of At The Drive-In and the spectre of two pole-thin herberts jack-knifin' across the stage in gigantic perm-rock wigs like needle-limbed punk rock cousins of Harry Enfield's "calm down calm down!" scousers.

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