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BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD Komedia, Brighton, June 17

“IT’S been a super-weird year,” says Black Country, New Road drummer Charlie Wayne at the start of this socially distanced show. “A hard year for us. But weirdly, inexplicably, we’re back on the road…”

In fairness, a healthy dash of inexplicable weirdness is all part of BCNR’s charmingly wonky hipster-geek appeal. Despite being free-jazzing, post-rocking, klezmer-infused maximalist misfits, this sprawling

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