Spacemen 3: Spacemen E
Jack Barron, NME, 29 July 1989
THE TRAIN TO Rugby rattles down the track. On my lap lies an inch-thick collection of press on Spacemen 3. One quote in particular leaps out of the mundane morass of print: "Acid House is hype and bullshit. Acid makes you question things, the validity of things."
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