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As gigs start taking place again, free of restrictions (albeit not free of The Famous Virus), there’s the sense of bands making up for lost time. For many up-and-coming bands and artists, the timing of the past two years has felt particularly shitty – it was supposed to be ‘their time’, and then quite suddenly it wasn’t. That’s by no means an easy pill to swallow, which reflects a certain level of gumption in those who have come back fighting.

Judging by the shows we’ve been to recently, it feels as though a rebirth is taking place. Finally ablewant to play when the time came. And now it has come. somehow.

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