Live
Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, 20/10/2014
Tony Gaughan finds that seminal post-punk outfit the Pop Group have lost none of their abrasive edge in a dynamic show at the Voodoo Rooms in Edinburgh on their first full-length UK tour in over thirty years
Reviews
Citizen Zombie (2015)
Ambitious and brilliantly complex first album in thirty-five years from seminal pop rock outfit, the Pop Group
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