Carmel: Storm Before The Calm
Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 10 April 1982
AN INTERRUPTION. You can forget your Bananajamas and their shrink-wrapped kharma, stuff your paedophiliac slobbering over little Lolita Grogan wipe that saliva away, it's disgusting and stop pandering to the nasal whine of Wilde it's nauseating.
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