Mink DeVille: The Venue, London
Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 5 July 1980
"FROM THE streets of New York City..." went the opening announcement, and Willy DeVille's new crew kicked off their late-starting second show of the evening in a (for once) packed Venue with an oozing, moody instrumental awash in an ebb tide of sax'n'sex.
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