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Rain Parade/Snakes Of Shake/Ring Of Roses: LSE, London

Julian Henry, Melody Maker, 28 December 1985

THIS WAS AN evening of contrast. The Snakes Of Shake look and sound like they were born in a town in the Midwest of America, and though the Rain Parade were the more genuine article they seemed too far removed from the rainy London night to really make any sense in the circumstances.

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