Seven Year Bitch: Smashed!, Islington, London
Steven Wells, NME, 6 February 1993
BOYS ARE BORING. The tedious parade of middle-class white males desperately trying to persuade us that they 'hurt', that they 'suffer' ...YAWNO YAWNO! But listen chaps, the sexniggers (Mr Wells' terminology is not necessarily condoned by the NME staff Freedom Of Speech Ed) are getting uppity. The drums! The drums!
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