Lone Justice, Marquee, London
Richard Cook, NME, 1985
TWICE I see this group in a couple of weeks and both times I wind up more exhausted than exhilarated. Lone Justice are trying so hard to make a big noise that they blunder on into territory where all is thrash and overload. They're like cowpokes suddenly drunk on metal moonshine.
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