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The Jesus And Mary Chain: National Ballroom, Kilburn, London

James Brown, Sounds, 3 January 1987

HEEEEEEY! MONDAY, The Jesus And Mary Chain take the stage, grey skeletons of their former selves. Five nervous under-rehearsed men with an expectant audience ahead of them and no soundcheck behind them. They are weak and incompetent; the irony behind the unintentional and tedious feedback is too heavy to be humorous. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

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