Sex Pistols, The Clash, Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers: Electric Circus, Manchester
Paul Morley, NME, 25 December 1976
THREE DANCE bands playing the Electric Circus for the second time in ten days. They're back because the Circus is one of the very few venues in the land that will accommodate them.
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