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BLACK BOX RECORDER

Singer Sarah Nixey has never regretted taking up the invitation from Luke Haines (The Auteurs) and John Moore (The Jesus and Mary Chain) to form Black Box Recorder—even if the band never achieved the level of success of some of their other turn of the millennium peers. And it’s questionable if they ever made good on the promise that “they would make her famous.”

“I laughed when they wrote that fax to me,” Nixey says via email from her London home, as she slowly recovers from contracting COVID-19 more

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