Ob June 27th The Bathers played a show with string players at the intimate Voodoo Rooms in Edinburgh. These photographs appear over two galleries and were taken by Philip Wark/
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In the first of two galleries Philip Wark photographs the Bathers at The Voodoo Rooms in Edinburgh.
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