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Divorce are the best young British band I’ve seen in an age

Plus: the old-fashioned sex appeal of Usher

Michael Hann
Tiger Cohen-Towell possesses a stage presence far beyond what indie bands normally offer up. IMAGE: ROSIE SCO
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 19 April 2025
issue 19 April 2025

Can we talk business for a moment? When reviewers like me go to big arenas, we get the best seats in the house, with fantastic sightlines and excellent sound (a PR who used to work for U2 told me she would routinely reassign press into even better seats than the already splendid ones they had originally been given; you do anything you can to get an extra 1 per cent more enthusiasm into the review).

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