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The Vaccines: Kicking Against The Pricks

Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), January 2011

AFTER A WHIRLWIND 2011, the Vaccines' Árni Hjörvar is retreating to his Icelandic homeland for a festive feast of smoked lamb and Christmas ham. Set to throw his body's climate control haywire, the bassist then flies from a frozen Reykjavik to Auckland for the first of the band's debut Big Day Out appearances.

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