MUSIC PREVIEW
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Since Matthew Priest, drummer for Dodgy, lives ‘in a community of about seventeen Matthews’, there’s no guarantee you’ll find the right one. But find him I do, and hear him, as he picks up the phone, cautioning another of the Matthews. ‘I don’t want you taking the piss,’ he warns.
In best Dodgy tradition, the band are finishing an album and setting out on the road just as the warmer weather kicks in. ‘I must admit, we are a Factor 13 band, we do like a bit of that. But it’s more a case of people a telling us we’re a real summer band, so it seems like destiny that our
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