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Cover story: Hydro Connect Our preview coverage of the final, and arguably most sophisticated, festival in the musical calendar is headed up by the most talked-about Scottish band this year, Glasvegas. They tick all the right boxes: black leather, anthemic chant-a-long songs, Alan McGee endorsement, fawning praise from the NME. Henry Northmore meets them and finds a gang of misfits on the cusp of something big. See page 10.
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