We Are Scientists mix killer tunes with comedy shtick. But if there's one thing they take seriously it's music
By Tim Walker
Girls at a We Are Scientists show can't stop going on about how cute the
band are. Boys, meanwhile, go on about how funny they are. Both are liable
to agree that, as well as being cute and funny, We Are Scientists have some
killer tunes.
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We Are Scientists mix music with comedy shtick
It was known as acid, blotter acid, window pane, dots, tickets and mellow
yellow. It was sold on the street in capsules and tablets but most often in
liquid form, usually absorbed on to a piece of blotting paper divided into
several squares: one drop, or "dot", per square. Lysergic acid diethylamide,
or C20H25N30 to give it its snappy chemical formula, derived from lysergic
acid, and it introduced you to a world of cosmic harmony and all-embracing
love, or a black schizoid hell of paranoia and screaming demons.
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