Lee 'Scratch' Perry: Dingwalls, London
Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 16 January 1988
SOMETIMES there are concerts that leave your mind so thoroughly evacuated, that the only way to galvanise your diminished sense of being is to work up a loathing for the audience.
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