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Wesley Stace: One Last Heist

by Doug Collette
September 24, 2026

With the title of One Last Heist so closely juxtaposed with the album's cover image, the acerbic expression on Wesley Stace's face says it all. Or it might if this were not the same iconoclast who distinguished himself from the likes of Elvis Costello and Graham Parker back in the New Wave/punk heyday of the late Seventies.  Then known under the assumed name of John Wesley Harding--a wink of the eye even there!--his all-too-often overly clever attitude even ...