Angelic Upstarts: Someone Else's Fight
Chris Bohn, Melody Maker, 18 August 1979
INTOLERANCE FALLS like a heavy pall over the Angelic Upstarts – only they won't lie still and let it settle. Follow them round for a while, and you feel resentment bristling under the collars of those caught in their environs.
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