Angelic Upstarts: The Nashville, London
Garry Bushell, Sounds, 18 August 1979
THE MUSIC Press is a middle class toy, perpetually pampered, easily bored, easily bought off. It's too easy to sit pretty in your safe mortgaged semi-detached homes a million miles away from the harsh realities of a Hoxton, or an Easterhouse, or a South Shields or a Deptford. Easy to forget they exist.
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