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For years The Supernaturals were familiar faces in Glasgow and Edinburgh's pubs and venues. They are now becoming familiar vistors to the Top Forty. Their debut album It Doesn’t Matter Any More not only featured the coolest cover of the year in the form of a grinning chimp, but also went into the charts at Number Nine and has since sold a whopping 50,000 copies in the UK. They’ve just returned from touring Europe with Robbie Williams who was partial to running on stage with his todger flapping in the breeze. Here’s Ken Supernatural on 1997:
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