Dave Cartwright: And Now, Half An Hour Of Masochism
Fred Dellar, NME, 18 January 1975
BY THE TIME this article gets into print, Dave Cartwright will have bitten his fingers down to the knuckle or gone prematurely grey. He worries, y'see. Worries about what people say about him. Equally, he worries if they fail to say anything. And he reads the music papers avidly every week just to find what they are, or what they are not saying.
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