Nick Cave: A Man Called Horse
Antonella Gambotto, ZigZag, January 1985
I AM CRUSHED between a maniac with a mohican and a screaming string-singleted Scot in the audience - sweating, drunken, belching, retching, hopeless, drugged - at London's Electric Ballroom.
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