New Order: The Reading Festival
Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 9 September 1989
NEW ORDER have to be blinding, have to be gorgeous and maverick and wise, if we're to leave with any sense of napalm in our hearts, honey in our orifices, splendour on our teeth.
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