Generation X: Central London College of Art and Design
Peter Silverton, Sounds, 18 December 1976
WITH SIOUXSIE and the Banshees not playing because "they couldn't get it together" and the remaining support act, Eater, being a band that I wouldn't soil my typewriter ribbon writing about, it was all down to Generation X to deliver the goods. They did and made an auspicious debut.
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