Cabaret Voltaire: Venue, London
Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 19 June 1982
SOME shock, this. Hatched in the dreariest industrial crucible, Cabaret Voltaire have always crawled, and snivelled down their own dubious paths, hacking away in their private recesses like some decrepit old tramp coughing up phelgm in a public lavatory.
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