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The internet was supposed to kill off the sweaty pop gig. But with Live8, Glastonbury and a Mercury List brimming with great performers, Alexis Petridis argues that this is a boom time for live music

Friday July 29, 2005
The Guardian

In theory at least, nothing about live music should surprise Steve Lamacq. The DJ's long-standing devotion to the cause of the gig is the stuff of faintly bizarre legend. His fellow broadcaster and former colleague Stuart Maconie once noted that Lamacq was the only person he knew who would take holidays from working at the NME, then spend them on tour with the Mega City Four, a long-forgotten band of dubious merit and dubious personal hygiene.

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