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Test Department: Subterrania, London

Ngaire Ruth, Melody Maker, 5 January 1991

A GUY strolls in playing bagpipes over the hymn 'Jerusalem'. Two more people arrive and pick up huge bass drums, the type you'd expect to find at the Battle of Culloden, and Margaret Thatcher's image bears down on us from the screen. Her voice is in the sampler, and the grandeur of the drumming more than hints that lies are lurking.

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