Throwing Muses – review

Club Academy, ManchesterRhode Island's Throwing Muses were one of the great US alt-rock bands of the 80s and 90s. Formed around the duelling vocals and angular guitars of Kristin Hersh and step-sister Tanya Donelly, much of their creativity was associated with Hersh's bipolar disorder, which gave her hallucinations and personal demons. Reformed after various splits and celebrating their 25th anniversary without Donelly – who left in 1991 – neither maturity, marriage nor motherhood has dulled...

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