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“People came to listen”

NEXT month, the spirit of Soho’s fabled ’60s folk club Les Cousins will be revived for one night only, as Martin Carthy, Bridget St John, Wizz Jones and Diana Matheou – the singer who married the club’s manager Andy Matheou, then ran it herself until its 1972 demise – convene for a tribute night at Hackney’s Moth Club. A new Les Cousins

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