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Ellie Roberts |

The staggering musical talent of Citizen has become more and more apparent with each album they have released, and Halcyon Blues continues the trend.

Guy Oddy |

These days, Alfie Agnew is a Maths professor at California State University Fullerton. Back in the 1980s, however, he was singer and guitarist with US punks the Adolescents, as well as DI along with Sean Elliot. However, while academia might provide a more regular income than playing music, it clearly isn’t anything like as much fun.

Thomas H. Green
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Sebastian Scotney
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