Screaming Blue Messiahs: Gun-Shy
Andy Gill, NME, 10 May 1986
THE COVER of The Screaming Blue Messiahs' first mini-album/EP Good And Gone captures their music perfectly: a posse of WW2 Grumman fighters cruising above the clouds, sleek, swift beasts on the warpath, looking to swoop down out of the sky and devastate.
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