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Live music: Jimmy Eat World, Olympia, Dublin

Review

In this part of the world ‘punk’ is a byword for underdog aggression — for the filth and fury.

In America, however, it has historically connoted fizzy, day-glo guitar-pop. Among the foremost exponents of the genre are Mesa, Arizona’s Jimmy Eat World, whose catchy, primary colour anthems blazed a trail for bigger bands such as Green Day and Blink 182.

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