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Round the Twist

ORLD Of Twist once built a volcano stage prop so vast it needed its own truck, only for it to be refused entry to London’s Astoria before disintegrating on the pavement. Such Spinal Tap farce was never far away for a self-destructive band who ambitiously reached for the stars. Best remembered for 1991’s trippy, dance-rock cover of the “It was all far greater in our heads than it was in reality,” he sighs when visits him at home in Hove.

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