Spacemen 3 ‘Big City’

byWill Stokes
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Pete “Sonic Boom” Kember talks us through the making of Spacemen 3’s 1991 showstopper ‘Big City’

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Spacemen 3 ‘Big City’

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Will Stokes

Oceanic ‘Insanity’

Japan, ‘Gentlemen Take Polaroids’, (Virgin Records)

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Cabaret Voltaire ‘Nag Nag Nag’

Steve Hovington ‘Remembrance Day’

Berlin ‘The Metro’

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