Angelic Upstarts: Bolingbroke Hall, South Shields
Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 4 March 1978
I WAS starting to think the whole thing had gone down the toilet. All the energy and the anger. Suddenly smart suits and cash register eyes are idealogically OK again.
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