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Primal Pain at the Psychos' Party: The Birthday Party at the Venue, London

Barney Hoskyns, NME, 13 March 1982

WHEN The Birthday Party last desecrated this tabernacle of modern nightlife, a generally sloppy show produced the intemperate engorgement of Drunk On The Pope's Blood, so their return here after a two-month tour of Australia was to be anticipated with some trepidation.

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