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Stick In The Wheel: A Thousand Pokes. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

When we sing in the voices of the downtrodden, when we admit to ourselves that the songs we sing are not from an exalted high praising the so-called great and good, but ones that sit in the realm of the beggar’s folk dance, the vagabond and the hobo’s Mosh, and the parody of the discotheque frequented by the cash strapped and harbingers of the bouncing cheque, then we show the world just how to give A Thousand Pokes to the classless upper classes and the wannabe nouveau riche who see the world as a plaything without understanding the most basic of rules.