Spiritualized, Levitation: Hackney Empire, London
Paul Moody, NME, 17 April 1993
A BALD man in a silver suit is pumping plumes of silver smoke from the balcony in between playing mood-altering ambient tape-loops. Below him, the hippie children of the home counties send up puffs of warm smoke that blend together and form mini mushroom dope clouds. No one notices.
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