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Stadium-Sized: The View From The Terraces

It’s not all drinking a can of warm Crucial Brew by the bar of the Docker’s Fist in Stevenage on a Tuesday night, waiting for Zuckerberg’s Lachrymal Manscaping Cyborg to take the stage in support of Eviscerated Pangolin; sometimes it’s about going to the biggest shows (outside of big festival bills) one can conceive of. Celebrating some of the biggest gigs we’ve been to – the good, the bad and the very ugly – here are some pearlescent selections from tQ’s archives… expect shock, awe and helicopters.

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