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Sweat, Power And Expensive Perfume

Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 15 September 1979

TALKIN' 'BOUT The Venue...and people, it's bad. There is no way that something the size of a small theatre can pretend to be an intimate club, and the end result is an invitation to apathy, a velvety enticement to sit at tables gossiping and treating the act like it's on TV and there's nothing, really nothing to turn off...

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