Blue Rondo A La Turk: The Royalty, Southgate
Betty Page, Sounds, 27 March 1982
WITH ONE bombed single under their finely coutured belts and another progressing painfully slowly, Blue Rondo have had little choice but to come out. This was, as far as I'm aware, the first show they've openly advertised, commercial necessity heralding the death of the clandestine, cliqueish gig.
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