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Blog: Ice Cold (and Red Hot) in Prestatyn – The SFX Weekender 3

6 February, 2012 – 9:00 am

This Sunday evening, I returned from the wilds of North Wales where the weekend-long third annual SFX Weekender event was taking place. (And here is the point where I have to do full-disclosure and say that I’ve been writing in a freelance capacity for SFX magazine for the past ten years – I got a [...]

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