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OK, so clearly you have memorised (at least) one piece of ridiculous hyperbole regarding
yrself. Please quote your favourite here.
“‘Sebadoh fail to excite’ – a headline over a live photo of me, giving the audience the finger. Translated from Dutch. I know that’s not hyberbole, but it’s the only specific quote I can remember.”
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A photo in the booklet for Wyau/Pyst/Libertino, the essential collection of Datblygu albums, shows a temporary stage housed on a huge truck, somewhere in Wales, covered by tarpaulin and occupied by Datblygu themselves. You have to look twice to notice anyone apart from vocalist David R Edwards, who’s standing on the lip and barking at six children sitting on the grass wearing anoraks. It’s an image so dreary and purgatorial, you imagine that despite being a black and white picture, it was taken using colour film. Intentionally or otherwise, it conveys the notion of a prophet unrecognised in his own land, which is at least a half-truth. (more…)