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The Nightingales - they're back and they're marvellous - MARC RILEY/BBC 6 MUSIC

Nightingales are unreal. The level of playing and songwriting after their post-punk hiatus is unparalled by any of their generational comeback cohorts - TERRE T/WFMU

With The Fall getting Lifetime Achievement awards and Gang Of Four canonised it is long past time the wayward genius of Robert Lloyd and his cohorts was recognised - RECORD COLLECTOR

Songs tumble past, pasty faced and brimming with mothers pride, as fresh and corruptible now as when they started twenty years back. Age has neither dimmed their rage or diminished their satire - PLAN B

The Nightingales in Southend on Friday (May 06) jetted in to my top ten gigs of all time - PHILL JUPITUS/BBC 6 MUSIC

Forget all these NME Band of the Week types, who make out they don't care, they won't compromise, etc, whilst wearing the same indie uniform and churning out the same tired old riffs. They don't need your attention. The Nightingales do. Because rock 'n' roll rarely gets as uncompromising as this. - PLASTELIN

The Nightingales are morally sound, cynically sweet, disturbingly comedic. All carelessly and unconsciously cool, Nightingales are grown men with something to say and sparse, post-punk soundtracks to back them. So, back them - UNPEELED

Rock & Roll at its best - SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG

Consistently excellent, the Nightingales are back, as ferociously sardonic as ever. Nice to see them still mad, still funny, still wrecking the furniture after all these years. - DUSTED

Brilliantly awkward Brummie buggers, the most fabulous melange of indie, punk, rockabilly, country and (weirdly) British folk you could imagine - WHISPERIN' AND HOLLERIN'

Trebly guitar scrubs and busy drumming, both at a hyper pace, support Robert Lloyd's snide, self-mocking, self-pitying, annoyed, despairing, sarcastically scathing and generally intelligent (if not always intelligible) tirades in the Nightingales. Dry wit, too. This boy from Birmingham has a lot of mind to give the world a piece of. - TROUSER PRESS

The Nightingales turned in a performance of the type that will serve to confirm their excellence when other infinitely better known bands stand revealed as Charlatans - JOHN PEEL

Lloyd is the most underestimated songwriter of his generation - THE INDEPENDENT

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