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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Wolf Eyes performing in 2006.
‘Its tinnitus machine noise sounded like a celebratory, ecstatic, love-filled symphony’ … Wolf Eyes performing in 2006. Photograph: Edd Westmacott/Avalon/Getty Images

Wolf Eyes – Stabbed in the Face

By Easter 2004, I’d been in a relationship with my partner, Maria, for four months and I was just realising how deeply in love I was. We had become inseparable. A magazine sent me to the ATP festival at Pontins in Camber Sands to interview “the Beastie Boys of noise”, Wolf Eyes. The interview fell to pieces when the band, in a state of great psychic refreshment, all wearing Manowar T-shirts, refused to stop watching a Manowar DVD and signalled they would only answer questions if they related to Manowar.

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