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ChrisAbrahams, Tony Buck & Lloyd Swanton “We don’t try to force the music to conform”

You’ve been together since 1987 with the same personnel. When did it occur to you that this might be something that could evolve over a long span of time, and did that begin to change the way you thought about the music?

I always felt that The Necks would be a long-term thing. It was something that was always very open-ended, with no preordained goals apart from playing music together. Early on, whole years would go by without us

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