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Posted by stimpy on 2 March 2010 - 2:48pm.
Just been reading the notes that come with the excellent Egg Archive release of Egg's 'The Metronomical Society'. As with all the Egg/National Health/Hatfields archive releases, there are copious notes written by the band; particularly Dave Stewart and his customary dry wit.
The introduction was written by one Capt Sensible and relates that "whenever I end up with my punk chums Arthur from the Lurkers and Mark P from Sniffin Glue, we can be occasionally be heard singing 'A Visit To Newport Hospital' after a couple of beers"
Year zero eh? ;-)
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