Cabaret Voltaire
Stephen Dalton, Uncut, February 2000
THE CROWD ARE ALREADY PRETTY fired up when the steamingly drunk weirdo trapped in flashing fairy lights tosses his guitar into the audience. This is the trigger for a full-scale riot. An incensed mob storm the stage, push the singer overboard, then proceed to attack his two colleagues.
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