Grok! Fad Gadget at the Lyceum, London
Biba Kopf, NME, 1984
NOW THAT Martial Law has been declared in rock by such jail guitar banner-waving bores as U2, Big Country and The Alarm, Fad Gadgets appropriation of the six strings could not have been better timed.
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